plasmashell takes ages to come up

Since yesterday’s update plasmashell takes ages to complete it’s startup.
After login I see a completely black desktop (no icons, no panel, no anyhting). I only have conky, Latte dock and Yakuake.
I tried killing and restarting plasmashell to no avail.
After several minutes (19 minutes the last time I tried) plasmashell finally wakes up and completes loading (desktop background appears, panel appears, etc).
Trying to start it from CLI I see nothing obvious pointing at the reason for the delay.

Tumbleweed release is 20170529:

cris@PolariSuse ~]**$** lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    core-2.0-noarch:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-noarch:core-2.0-x86_64:core-3.2-x86_64:core-4.0-x86_64:desktop-4.0-amd64:desktop-4.0-noarch:graphics-2.0-amd64:graphics-2.0-noa
rch:graphics-3.2-amd64:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Description:    openSUSE Tumbleweed
Release:        20170529
Codename:       n/a

Anybody else seeing this?

TIA
Cris

Plasma shell is slow to start. But not that slow. It takes perhaps 2 minutes from the time that I login

How are you updating? If “/etc/release” says “20170529” after yesterday’s update, then you aren’t fully updated. Try:

zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change

That’s how I’m updating. Zypper says there is nothing to do.
However, I don’t see this problem on my work laptop, only on my desktop at home. Must be something related to my desktop PC or to the network at home.

On a side note: I don’t have an ‘/etc/release’ file. Should I?

TIA
Cris

Not quite…

cat /etc/os-release

Tried to enter with a new user

Thank you Deano.

Turns out lsb_release is not telling the truth.
This is on my work laptop:

cristiano@xmper8q3 ~]**$** cat /etc/os-release
NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
# VERSION="20170622"
ID=opensuse
ID_LIKE="suse"
VERSION_ID="20170622"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20170622"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"
cristiano@xmper8q3 ~]**$** lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    core-2.0-noarch:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-noarch:core-2.0-x86_64:core-3.2-x86_64:core-4.0-x86_64:desktop-4.0-amd64:desktop-4.0-noarch:graphics-2.0-amd64:graphics-2.0-noarc
h:graphics-3.2-amd64:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Description:    openSUSE Tumbleweed
Release:        20170529
Codename:       n/a

Cris

Will try and report back.
Thank you!

Cris