Logout strands me in TTY

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From the Plasma desktop, if i choose to logout (intending then to just log back in), i am instead taken to a TTY. I am offered to login to said TTY, but see no way to return to the actual Plasma Login Manager screen (ie, our SDDM replacement). Once i have logged into the TTY, i can run run0 systemctl start plasmalogin.service, in hope that it would behave like its equivalent for SDDM used to, ie, then return me to a new login screen. In fact, nothing (visible) changes. Attempting to toggle via Ctrl+Alt+F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, does nothing. Each time i was stranded like this i have not known what else to do but to reboot.

This has happened to me now for a few kdelinux versions:

  • 12/7/26: Successfully installed update ‘202607120254’. → iirc happens here
  • 14/7/26: Successfully installed update ‘202607130254’. → iirc happens here
  • 26/7/26: Successfully installed update ‘202607250254’. → current running system, definitely happens

A brief search of this forum did not reveal others also saying it… can it be a purely local issue only for me then? What troubleshooting should i do?

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There was a regression in PLM, and I think the build from the 25th still had it. Try updating to a new image :slight_smile:

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Thank you. I did the update [to 20260727] & rebooted, logged in, then logged out. It still then dumped me to TTY, & run0 systemctl restart plasmalogin.service still did not help.

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Oops, I thought it was already fixed upstream. :confused: I’d say try again with tomorrow’s build; some more PLM fixes were just merged recently.

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Fwiw

updatectl check/update host 202607280254 → 202607281716 ... host@202607281716: ✓ Done

Sadly, still same misbehaviour.

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202608011645 = good, ie, logout works correctly :white_check_mark: