Frozen screen on openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma 6

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For the past 4 days, I’ve been stuck at my login screen:

Unable to enter my password (the screen remains frozen).
Unable to switch to a different graphical server, as I’m stuck on “Plasma” X11.
Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

I performed an update.
I reinstalled openSUSE using a USB drive in TTY mode (both KDE and GNOME), but the screen remains frozen with my username and the password field inaccessible.
Could this be related to KDE 6 or is it a bug?

I haven’t found anything on the internet, and it’s not easy from my smartphone.

PS: I’m sending this request from my workplace computer.

Thank you for your assistance. :pray:

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Which openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot did you install?

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Indeed for some the update to Plasma 6 was complicated, the advice was to update from tty, when I did it it worked well for me.
The screen remains frozen, since you also have this problem with Gnome, it is not a Plasma problem.
Have you tried logging in with wayland instead of Xorg?
The nice thing about openSUSE that other distributions don’t have is that if an update breaks something you can easily cancel it and go back, waiting for a fix update.
So I don’t understand the problem.

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“I didn’t choose btrfs during the installation. My login screen is frozen, it recognizes my username, but I can’t enter my password, or choose ‘Wayland’.”

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Can you, in that situation, switch to a virtual terminal?
Or can you start your system in “multi-user.target” (aka runlevel 3)?

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Just a wild guess, but are you running on an AMD GPU using the “radeon” driver?
Then this might be Bug 1222156 - radeon: After an upgrade the graphical interface no longer works.
The issue seems to appear since the last Mesa update. Workarounds would be to downgrade Mesa or to switch to driver “amdgpu”, if supported with your GPU.

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