Did a vanilla install with auto fs layout (took 3 attempts - /usr/local needs to be 12+GB to accommodate `pjg_add kde kde-plasma`!)

Still no joy. The errors that remain seem to be related to auth/polkit stuff. That and the kde specific app id unknown/missing errors which _might_ be related to same.

Maybe I'll investigate further tomorrow. Bordering on tiresome now. Ha.

Mmm, tortellini. So the call wasn't a total waste of time. Ha.

I did have it working on 7.9 about six months. This was in a VM though so never really got properly exercised.

Re: Alpine and KDE - that's my daily on multiple machines for the last ~6 months and have never had any problems, at least not with the RX6600. the RX7800 is unstable as of kernel 7.1. Haven't found the time to try 7.2 yet.

Sounds promising!

I'm going to spin up a totally vanilla VM and see what happens.

I probably won't be able to give any deep attention to this till this evening at the earliest (work is a shit show and have a concrete pour for the garden folly in the late afternoon).

Re: QEMU, video is virtio. I think it's what defaults under Alpine, at least I didn't set up anything custom using virt-machine-manager..

Good call out - I'll give it a try.

I'm out of time to work this today but I'm stuck with the startplasma-x11 stdout/error showing:

QProcess: Cannot create pipe (Too many open files)

Everything falls to crap in the log after this wrt "Failed to register with host portal" -> "Could not register app ID: App info not found" type errors which is either a red herring or useful.

I've got the base config for open files in login.conf and sysctl.conf set to ridiculously large numbers so I don't think it is a ulimit type thing? Or I'm missing something elsewhere.

Maybe turning away from it for a while will help.

I installed today (8.0). I had to do a sysupgrade -s in order to fix pkg_add can't resolve errors during installing kde.

I also adjusted the .xsession file to create the tmp files outside of /tmp/run [ export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=~/.tmp/run/$(id -u) ]

Now I can login but plasmashell is in a crash loop - working it now. Ctrl+Alt+T opens konsole so that's something, most of the way there I guess.

Ha! Just realized I never got around to fixing the ash prompt on this host. D'oh!