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Zylellrenfar

Consistent KDE Compositor Crash on Bazzite nvidia stable (both X11 and Wayland)

I updated bazzite today (after installing it yesterday). I can get to the login screen just fine, but attempting to login to Plasma (X11) and Plasma (Wayland) both fail. On Wayland, the session instantly crashes every time, dropping me back to sddm. On X11, the loading spinner eventually freezes, and switching to another TTY and back again shows just a black screen. Switching to another TTY and looking at
journalctl
journalctl
indicates that the KDE compositor has crashed. If I try starting Plasma (X11) enough times I eventually get a partially working desktop, although the compositor still isn't running so I can't see the status bar.

I've rolled back for the time being, which seems to have fixed the issue. Is there a tracking bug that matches the problem I have? There seems to be a lot of issues with the new NVidia drivers, but I'm not sure which one I'm experiencing.
Solution
I eventually figured out that this only occurs after a reboot. A
sudo shutdown -h
sudo shutdown -h
followed by waiting five seconds, then booting appears to prevent the issue. Plasma (X11) still performs better on NVidia hardware than Wayland.
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