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#323 Cant open KDE Wayland session, $DISPLAY is not set
Closed: Duplicate by boredsquirrel. Opened by boredsquirrel.

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I was browsing normally and suddenly KDE crashed. Black screen with cursor, no output, I could write stuff there. After some seconds SDDM appears and I try to log in but get thrown out. I repeat, the same.

startx works, so its a Wayland problem.

I use fish, but tried switching to bash first, same result.

entering startplasma-wayland give me this:

>startkde
Error: could not determine $DISPLAY.
Error: Can not contacr kdeinit5!
org.kde.startup: "kdeinit5_shutdown" () exited with code 255
startplasma-wayland: Shutting down...
startplasmacompositor: Shutting down...
startplasmacompositor: Done.

>kdeinit5
kdeinit5: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.

>$DISPLAY
fish: The expanded Command was empty

>wayland-info
failed to create display: No such file or directory

OS: Fedora Kinoite 37.20230321 (updated today in the X session)
Laptop: Intel x64 with iGPU pretty old

Metadata Update from @boredsquirrel:
- Issue close_status updated to: Duplicate
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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