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Bazzite•3y ago•
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Plasma X11 - Desktop - Fails to Start after a fresh reinstall

About the issue:

So I just did a fresh reinstall on my desktop

Plasma X11 worked fine after first install but broke after first reboot.

This is also the issue why I reinstalled and it was not like this before, so my suppression is that is related to a recent update.

Start information:
- Latest standard stable Bazzite image (as of today, and yes I used the Fedora Image Writer).
- Secure boot is not enabled.
- AMD machine Graphics + CPU.

Installation information:
- SE Keyboard
- Enabled Root User
- Created a local user
- Automatic Install, removed all partitions and used a full drive

Things I did in the first session:
- Autologin via SDDM to Plasma X11 <---
- A system/app update via discover. <---
- Configuring Steam / Lutris
- Installing various flatpaks.

More things I tried:

Even after reverting the SDDM autologin from Wayland it still has the same problem.
Even stranger is that the not even the root account can start a plasma x11 session.

Logs:
Is there any place where the login attempt or session logs are stored that can give any clues to what is causing it?
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