Problem with starting Plasma (X11) Desktop

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Hi.
I have Leap 15.5
KDE Framework 5.103.0
KDE Plasma 5.27.9
Qt 5.15.8.

Almost every time I boot computer (encrypted disk + encrypted home) I get no Desktop (in meaning that I lack background and can’t left-click mouse and do whatever). I only get bottom bar with applications. I can run different applications though.
What I do to get Plasma/Desktop working is:
I log out as user. Enter user’s password and wait whether my Desktop will start. If not, log out again. At least 4-5 times like this. On login screen I have Plasma Wayland also but some application do not work properly in that environment.
I am tired… and the installation is fresh and from scratch.

What to do to start it (Plasma X11 Desktop) at the first time?

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Can you try to log in as another user? Does that work?

It seems you have a separate home partition, if so a re-install is relatively painless and likely the fastest way to solve the problem.

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I am the only user, no other user, so can’t test it.
But logging in is not a problem. To appear Plasma Desktop is a problem.
For example today it showed at the first time.
Yesterday I had to logout-login 5 times to Plasma Desktop to appear.

Home is a separate disk. Reinstalling is not a problem, but it is a fresh install anyway. And I keep it updated with zypper up and zypper dup (sometimes).

Have a nice day.

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You can create another test user with Yast and log in which that.
Quite some settings and data structures are per user so that is a good thing to try.

Yesterday I had to logout-login 5 times to Plasma Desktop to appear.

Good to hear it is an on/off problem. In that case it would be good to capture the journal for a bad and good run and diff them.

First try to locate such a good and bad boot using “sudo journalctl -b -1” and replace -1 by -2 to get the one but last boot etc. etc.

The make for the good and bad log you found (replace -4/-6 but the correct numbers) a “plain dump” using

sudo journalctl -b -4 -o cat > bad.log
sudo journalctl -b -6 -o cat > good.log

Next try to diff those files and see what is significantly different.
You can also share them in this topic using susepaste if you want.

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