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After upgrading from Kubuntu 20.04 to Kubuntu 20.10, I could not login as it just showed a black screen after boot. So I switched to command line and reinstalled Kubuntu desktop with sudo apt-get install --reinstall kubuntu-desktop kde-*. After that, i was able to login and can use all applications but the icons and background of input boxes of system apps have turned black as shown below

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Notice the black squares at the bottom right in the system tray, they used to be icons for Volume, Network, Bluetooth, etc. I can however click them and they behave as they used to. Also the desktop apps' icons are black.

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Notice the input fields at the right of Layout, Wallpaer type and also the button backgrounds of the window.

After looking at some logs I noticed that Akonadi server was not starting up because of an unknown MySQL error and installed MariaDb as i read somewhere that it might help. Now I can start Akonadi server with akonadictl manually but still the same issue. I restarted plasma with kquitapp5 plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell but still same issue. Also Akonadi does not start automatically when session begins.

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  • I have the same issue with the recent Debian/testing upgrade to "KDE 5.19" where suddenly all icons/images seems to be black only. I wonder this could somehow being linked to rendering the SVG(?) alpha(?) channel wrongly. What graphics card are you using (on my end: Mesa Intel HD 5500)? As Debian's transition to Qt 5.15 may not be fully there yet, I also tried this article, however, the result did not change.
    – su-ca
    Nov 9, 2020 at 8:33
  • I encountered this on upgrade to jammy. May be this bug(?) still not fixed.
    – mkm65535
    Apr 27, 2022 at 22:19

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Found the solution here, as per the link in the link:

Replacing libqt5quick5-gles with libqt5quick5 solved my problem

so make a: sudo apt install libqt5quick5 it worked for me on debian

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  • I reinstalled so can't check if it works. Thanks for your answer.
    – lovesh
    Nov 10, 2020 at 16:17
  • You'll need to restart the computer afterwards.
    – edA-qa mort-ora-y
    Sep 22, 2022 at 21:02
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I encountered the same problem on Debian bullseye after a full-upgrade. The solution as pointed out by LuisF was to remove libqt5quick5-gles and then install libqt5quick5.

sudo service sddm stop
sudo apt remove libqt5quick5-gles
sudo apt install libqt5quick5
sudo service sddm start
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  • worked in Kubuntu after upgrading from 20.10 to 21.04 (plasma 5.19 to 5.20), though I would only remove libqt5quick5-gles and install libqt5quick5, since stopping sddm freeze the system
    – yacov drori
    Feb 6, 2021 at 23:33
  • Stopping sddm is just killing the display manager. You can switch to a different terminal with, for example, ctrl+alt+F2, and then log in and finish the job on the command line. Once you start sddm back up, the desktop will appear again.
    – dodexahedron
    Apr 26, 2021 at 23:56
  • This works for me. Thank you. (I was uninstalled libllvm-12 on ubuntu 20.04 caused KDE problem)
    – HaxtraZ
    Jun 23, 2022 at 12:03
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The solution is to install libqt5quick5, as given in other answers, regardless of whether libqt5quick5-gles was installed or not. Removing it, if it exists, is still necessary, because they conflict with each other.

On a failed upgrade from 20.10 to 21.04, I had the same symptoms, and the system couldn't automatically fix it. Installing libqt5quick5 with an sddm restart fixed it without a reboot.

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    On my system the gles-version was automatically removed when I installed the non-gles-version. So it might not be necessary to manually remove anything.
    – Mrokii
    May 15, 2021 at 20:45

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