System completely locks up on single user root account with no password at lock screen

I know its generally not best practice to operate your OS without a password, but I ran into an interesting issue where if your password isn't set and you try to log in from the lock screen, the confirmation button does nothing. Clicking switch user then causes the system to hard freeze. KDE is being used for the environment.
Solution
This is not a supported configuration and goes against our own installation instructions.
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