I found the repos!
I hear ya on that. I went to the KaOS distro and it’s been really good. But it’s going through a huge change right now and once it discontinues Plasma, I’ll have to find a new home again. OMLx is looking good to return to!
It’s real nice seeing you back on the forum. Your disappearance was noticed by me.
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Brave does not crash with me anymore. Albeit I use flat hub version
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KaOS has been one of my fav distro, I had it installed for some time along with OM (and windoze) but I’m addicted to KDE/Plasma and recent changes made me left.
Same happened with Mint earlier.
I tried changing to CachyOs, although I like the custom kernel, I could not stop wishing I was back on Omlx. I got a new all amd laptop and came back with plasma
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Yep, with KaOS moving to Noctalia is not going to work for me. Like you, I am a Plasma person.
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Well, I’m not having a good day. Trying to get modules to work for i2c in openRGB and on a reboot, I got a black screen with a cursor after logging in. Since i had a fresh backup of my /home folder, I decided to do an install. To make a long story short, I wiped out my Windows installation. I’m not a happy camper right now. Restarting all the work on ROME.
The electricity has been off since 5:30am and now they are saying it will be on by 6:30pm. I still have not heard what broke the power pole.
It’s 96f / 35.5c here right now. I am so thrilled that I installed this window AC 2 days ago. I was hoping I would never have to use it. 
Oh Lort!!! I’m glad I work in multiple hospitals, if that happened to me, I’m staying in the operating room and sleeping on the couch. Lol
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Welcome back. Very sorry to hear about your lack of line power.
As for the broken utility pole, I think we can rule out ice or snow or anything related, such as a driver trying to show off his lack of skills on ice or snow. Drunk driver perhaps? Or old age? Even pressure treated wood will eventually rot. It shouldn’t take long to swap out a pole, unless they don’t have a spare of the right size laying around. Or they are taking their time because of the heat, which is possible.
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Well, the power was restored about 30 minutes ago. That made 11.5 hours down.
Now we just had afternoon thunderstorms blow in and knocked the power out. I had let the generator cool down and was putting the cover on it, when the power went out. They won’t start on it till the storm has passed. Now I have to get everything up and running again.
Again, I get to a reboot, login, backscreen with a cursor. I don’t know what to check. Everything seemed to be running fine until the reboot. I am on my laptop, since all I can do is get to a tty.
Bedtime and the power just came back on. 15 hours. 
I’m not sure how old your iso is. `systemctl status sddm` to see if sddm is actually starting. You might also need to install x11-driver-video-amdgpu if you have not done so and are using an AMD gpu
The ISO is new. I tried installing Wayland on it and it would kick me back out to the login screen. Here is what I get on Xlibre.
Jul 2 05:39:05 heisenberg-linux ksecretd[k5155]: Failed to register with host portal QDBusError("org.freedesktop.portal.Error.Failed", "Could not register ap ID: Connection already associated with an application ID")
I have an AMD processor, but Intel B580 gpu.
It will let me in on the failsafe session.
This got me up and running on wayland and x11. Whew! Still don’t know if I can use wayland or I need x11. Too early to tell. I have to test some of that out.
At least I can go grill chicken this morning and try to get somethings done around the house. Thank you for that command. It got me the info I needed to find a solution. Excellent job from @LeeTalbert and @AngryPenguin
I don’t understand why this would be an issue on a brand new ISO, but it will give the devs something to look for. There is an issue here, somewhere. I’ll have to open an Issue, but later. Too much to do right now.
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Wel…welcome back …and already cuading problems. Heheh
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BUG REPORT issued.
https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/distribution/issues/3475
My belief is that there is a Plasma5 program somewhere in the ISO.
`dnf history list`
dnf history info #
You can run a full transaction check on whichever one you installed the tasks with
15 hours? That beats the 14 hours we were without power on the farm back in 1976, and again a week later. In winter because two ice storms took down the power lines. I had to stay home from grade school both days. My parents just assumed there would be no school. I was in grade 8. As always, the teacher, who hated my parents and grandparents, held me accountable for not being in school during an ice storm. Not that it mattered. He held me accountable for everything that went wrong in school. Needless to say, I didn’t learn anything from him. He still found a way to blame me for everything that went wrong in school on those two days.
This was before my parents had a generator, mostly because “it will never be used and costs too much.” On the farm we had 4 tractors. Get the one with the Continental engine out of the shed and use it to run everything. How? On a gasoline tractor engine, it is possible to use the engine’s vacuum to run the milking machines in place of the electric vacuum pump. The tractor’s lights were used for lighting. Instead of milking three cows at a time, the engine’s vacuum was good for only two at a time.
Cooling the milk was easy. Without electric power for the heater, the milk house became cold fast. The old milk storage tank had a stainless steel cover over the top. Think of it as half a tank. The cold air penetrated through the stainless and the milk was cooled down. A bigger concern was not letting it get below freezing inside the building. Frozen water pipes are not fun and the well pump and pressure tank were inside.
We still had a hand pump on the well. Grandpa rigged the well for just such emergencies back in 1940 when electricity became available. Do you know how much pumping is required to water 45 cows plus young stock? One more reason why I was kept home.
The cows and young stock were fed hay and grain via gravity. The corn silage in the silo was frozen solid. Without power to run the unloader which could easily chop through frozen silage, my dad decided to feed more hay and grain.
The Patz barn cleaner required power to operate. When finished pumping water into buckets and carrying it into the barn for all the cattle, start shoveling into a wheelbarrow, wheel it outside into the loader bucket on the tractor. When full, dump it into the manure spreader.
The summer kitchen still had the old wood fired cook stove. My mother hated that thing. Grandma knew exactly how to cook on it.
Heat in the house was from the old LP gas furnace. Electric power was required to run the blower, but it would provide some heat in the basement if the plenum door was removed. Then leave the basement door open. Heat will rise, eventually.
Two years later, my parents upgraded the milking system from milk buckets to a pipeline milking system and a larger bulk milk storage tank. A PTO tractor generator became mandatory. My mother never let my dad forget that we should have put that in 10 years earlier. Mostly because milk production doubled. And partly because she never forgot those two days when we had no power for 14 hours because of an ice storm.
So just remember that it could be much worse. You could have 45 head of moo plus young stock and no power with no generator, be in grade 8, stuck with a teacher who hated you and your family.
My grandfather milked an average of 75 head in his barn. I helped. I know exactly what those days were like. I remember when we got a ONAN PTO driven generator. It stayed parked by the meter pole and connected to the bypass switch. All we had to do was back the tractor up to it and fire it up. Milk the cows and haul it to the neighbor next door and let them milk theirs, then to the next neighbor.
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