[SOLVED] Just Did A Testing Upgrade and CANNOT Login Into Plasma
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Just Did A Testing Upgrade and CANNOT Login Into Plasma
{sigh}
About an hour ago, I did an upgrade/update of Debian-testing {bookworm?}
When I did a reboot, as the upgrade/update seemed exclusively the Nvidia graphics card. Well... After I did a reboot, I was entirely to login to Plasma.
*: The Plasma splash screen starts, but it stops half way.
*: When I start the login process, the drive is is being accessed, it continues slightly less than halfway then the drive activity STOPS, and the screen's progress bar STOPS.
OK, since this is recent, I imagine that other users have noticed this behavior, complained about it, and it MAY be fixed in one or two days. BUT, does anyone on linuxquestions.org give me any advice on how I can login to Plasma successfully?
Thank you for reading this post, and have yourself a good day!
{{{Until I get my Plasma back, I am reduced to using XFCE, which is a fine desktop manager, but ever since I have been using Linuux, I have ALWAYS preferred the KDE Desktop manager}}}
Whenever Plasma gets wonky, log out of it, delete the content of ~/.cache/, then try Plasma. Corrupted cache is useless. A search for ~/.cache on https://bugs.kde.org/ turned up 844 hits for non-resolved bugs.
Well... {crap} deleted the .cache and I could not log into plasma, anyway.
I couldn't log in to ANYTHING.
Well, I used a commandline, created another user and logged into that new user, coppied everything from my original account , did a recursive chown to use the old files to my new user.... still no plasma.
{a note to myself, DO NOT do a backup if you change/upgrade/update my system UNTIL YOU TEST IT!!!!!}
Well.... I guess I could entirely rip plasma from my system, kill the entire thing, and rebuild it again.
Yes.. I did it to myself, in the end.....
I will call this [solved] and I will completely reinstall Plasma in the future.
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