Heya guys,
I’ve installed Fedora 43 on a new laptop, adjusted the packages…
When I first logged into the new user, it took a while to reach the desktop, but on subsequent logins the splash screen appears, then dissapears leaving me at a desktop wallpaper, a frozen mouse (that doesn’t respond to the trackpad), no taskbar, and the only way to actually reach the desktop is to ctrl+alt+f to switch to another virtual terminal and then back again.
This is a brand new user (so no user environment variables or startup files), the session is set to a brand new session every time (so it’s not a previous session).
I don’t see anything in the systemd logs (journald) which jumps out at me as indicating any sort of hang or issue. I’ve ssh’d in while the login is happening and don’t see any high CPU or suspicious process. I’ve tried SELinux in permissivemode (but I didn’t see any SELinux alerts anyway so I didn’t expect any change there).
I find that pressing the meta/super key (Windows key) on the laptop fast in succession causes the ‘plasmashell’ process to use more CPU… But I suspect that maybe it’s ‘doing’ something internally, but it’s just being presented to the screen properly (backed up by the fact that switching the screen after pressing it a few times will show the launcher menu up).
This is an AMD Ryzen AI 9 370 HX CPU + iGPU device (I have a SER9 device which is very similar which doesn’t have this issue).
KDE Plasma: 6.5.5
KDE Frameworks: 6.22.0
QT Version: 6.10.1
Kernel: 6.18.7-200
Wayland
I’m still doing some investigation into it, seeing if changing verious settings might have an effect on it.
It’s curious that if I delete my user dir and recreate it, then it works for the first login but that’s it.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions to help debug this then please let me know.