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I installed updates, rebooted, and now I just get this at the sddm login screen. The virtual keyboard comes up first, but this is what shows up after closing it. Neither Wayland or X11 plasma sessions will load upon login. I just get sent back to this.

My searching showed two results with someone having this same issue in the last couple of years, but one of them removed their post and the other was never replied to.

I tried running the CLI lookandfeeltool to change the theme, but it throws a very similar error. I also installed Xfce to see if it was just plasma, and that won't run either. Any thoughts?

I installed updates, rebooted, and now I just get this at the sddm login screen. The virtual keyboard comes up first, but this is what shows up after closing it. Neither Wayland or X11 plasma sessions will load upon login. I just get sent back to this. My searching showed two results with someone having this same issue in the last couple of years, but one of them removed their post and the other was never replied to. I tried running the CLI lookandfeeltool to change the theme, but it throws a very similar error. I also installed Xfce to see if it was just plasma, and that won't run either. Any thoughts?

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Just go back to the previous version kernel, which should still be on your grub menu. However, understand that every version of Linux when the "newest (greatest, etc etc)" update comes out, never ever d/l and install immediately. Your system will ALWAYS break. Take heart, though, you should have been around Linux about 20 years ago when I became a Systems Administrator (now Certified Linux, etc. etc.) -- everything was broken in one way or another but we just worked around it.

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Reverting to the previous kernel did not help. And yeah, I used Linux like 17 years ago. My first distro was Puppy, because we had dialup and the ISO was only like 40 Mb. Good times... Very confusing though.

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Turned out it was hardware failure. Linux is pretty tolerant to a point. When I tried to install Windows however (for work and on a separate brand new HDD) the installer just wouldn't finish. It would fail at different points every time.