Able to log into failsafe, but not desktop

[DD15]

Hello,

Requirements:

I have Searched the forum for my issue and found nothing related or helpful
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I have read the the Release Notes and Errata

OpenMandriva Lx version:

OpenMandriva Lx release 25.11 (ROME) Rolling for x86_64

Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):
KDE Plasma 6

Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):
Unable to login to Wayland desktop

Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):
ASUS K55A laptop for the hardware.

I installed the latest updates via Dnfdrake after receiving a notification. I then walked away. Some time later, I came back, expecting the screen to be locked as it always is, but it wasn’t. I closed Dnfdrake, as it had finished. Then I tried to do a Super-L to lock the screen, and the keyboard shortcut failed. I then went into System Settings to see if the keyboard shortcuts got messed up, and under ‘Input & Output’ the keyboard shortcuts were gone. There was not even an item listed inside the left-side index.

This has happened before, and I was always able to get everything back with a simple reboot and login. Only this time, I am not able to login to the Wayland desktop at the SDDM screen. But I am able to go into failsafe and get a very small terminal box in the left corner of the now otherwise black display.

When I tried to login to the Wayland desktop at the SDDM screen, the screen would go to black for a few seconds, and then I would be returned to the SDDM screen.

I was able to pull the attached log using 'journalctl -b > /media/shares/test_folder/bootlog.txt and then copy it to this computer over the lan, seeing as I still had network connectivity.

If this is the wrong boot log file, let me know where to find the correct one and how to retrieve it.

bootlog.txt (472.5 KB)

[AngryPenguin]

Make sure your upgrade was successful. Run in failsafe session distro-sync command

sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh

Reboot after that and try again.

[DD15]

Did that. Updated and loaded every repository. Then I was informed there was nothing to do.

No change. Still unable to login to the desktop. But failsafe still works. It replies with, “Nothing to do” when I do a sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh from the failsafe terminal.

[AngryPenguin]

Can you try solution from this post: Upgrading ROME(rolling) after Nov. 9, 2025 upgrade

[DD15]

Tried everything in that post. Everything worked until I came to this:

$ rpm -qa | grep sddm
sddm-0.21.0-11.znver1
sddm-theme-breeze-6.5.2-1.znver1
sddm-kcm-6.5.2-1.znver1

My result:

$ rpm -qa | grep sddm
sddm-0.21.0-11.x86_64
sddm-theme-breeze-6.5.2-1.x86_64
sddm-kcm-6.5.2-1.x86_64

This is an old ASUS laptop from 2012. Definitely not a Zen laptop. I suspect that is why I get a different result.

Bottom line: No change. Still can’t login to the desktop. Only the failsafe terminal.

[DD15]

My impression from reading what I could from the log file, one or more Plasma desktop files are corrupted.

Is there a way to reinstall Plasma desktop, forcing an update of all related files?

[AngryPenguin]

If you know what package is corrupted try sudo dnf reinstall package_name

if not, somethings like this can work/or/not

sudo dnf reinstall plasma* --skip-unavailable

sudo dnf reinstall kf6* --skip-unavailable

etc.

In extreme cases, you can reinstall all packages installed on your system, but this may take some time

sudo dnf reinstall \* --skip-broken

[DD15]

None of that worked, including:

sudo dnf reinstall \* --skip-broken

[AngryPenguin]

can you provide the output of these commands:

rpm -qa|grep plasma

rpm -qa|grep KF6

rpm -qa|grep kwin

rpm -qa|grep sddm

[DD15]

Here is the output of each command:

KF6_log.txt (3.0 KB)
kwin_log.txt (253 Bytes)
plasma_log.txt (706 Bytes)
sddm_log.txt (79 Bytes)

[AngryPenguin]

Looks like there is mix of plasma5 bits and plasma6. While plasma6 installation is not fully covered.

Try installing

sudo dnf install task-plasma6 task-plasma6-minimal task-plasma6-wayland

if package is installed remove it with

sudo rpm -e –nodeps task-plasma6

sudo rpm -e –nodeps task-plasma6-minimal

sudo rpm -e –nodeps task-plasma6-wayland

and then install again with

sudo dnf install task-plasma6 task-plasma6-minimal task-plasma6-wayland

I suspect there may be package conflicts with the p5 version. But let’s try; at most, you can remove the conflicting packages from p5.

[DD15]

@AngryPenguin

Try installing

sudo dnf install task-plasma6 task-plasma6-minimal task-plasma6-wayland

That line fixed it after I rebooted. The desktop is back, fully intact. Thank you very much. I have no idea how you figured it out. Five-star solution that works.

I have no idea how Plasma 5 parts got in there. When I installed OpenMandriva Rome back in February, I installed Plasma 6.

[SomeDudeInAZ]

plasma5 is sneaky