I am using Fedora 43 with KDE. Using Nvidia and kernel 6.18.10-200. I installed KDE 6.6 with Discover. Fedora is holding back the plasma login manager at the moment.
Seeing posts there about success with the new login manager, I disabled the sddm login manager, installed and enabled the new plasma login manager. Rebooted. I got to the new login screen. I was already set to X11 (for various reasons related to Zoom screen sharing) and I put in my password and it hung at a non-graphical login. Couldn’t get anywhere, not even a text terminal.
I shut down the computer, restarted, changed the session to Wayland, put in my password and it ran the plasma desktop normally. Here’s what I found after some digging:
harry1@landlord:~$ sudo systemctl status plasmalogin
[sudo] password for harry1:
● plasmalogin.service - Plasma Login Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plasmalogin.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
└─10-timeout-abort.conf
Active: active (running) since Wed 2026-02-18 09:46:41 EST; 1min 55s ago
Invocation: caee9e6c828944468c491f71b0edcccf
Docs: man:plasmalogin(1)
man:plasmalogin.conf(5)
Main PID: 1789 (plasmalogin)
Tasks: 2 (limit: 38208)
Memory: 29.1M (peak: 49.1M)
CPU: 122ms
CGroup: /system.slice/plasmalogin.service
└─1789 /usr/bin/plasmalogin
Feb 18 09:46:41 landlord plasmalogin-helper[1803]: pam_unix(plasmalogin-greeter:session): session opened for user plasmalogin(uid=964) by (uid=0)
Feb 18 09:46:41 landlord plasmalogin-helper[1803]: Starting Wayland user session: "/etc/plasmalogin/wayland-session" "/usr/bin/startplasma-login-wayla>
Feb 18 09:47:19 landlord plasmalogin-helper[19577]: pam_kwallet5(plasmalogin:auth): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_authenticate
Feb 18 09:47:19 landlord plasmalogin-helper[19577]: pam_kwallet5(plasmalogin:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred
Feb 18 09:47:19 landlord plasmalogin-helper[19577]: pam_unix(plasmalogin:session): session opened for user harry1(uid=1000) by harry1(uid=0)
Feb 18 09:47:19 landlord plasmalogin-helper[19577]: pam_kwallet5(plasmalogin:session): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_open_session
Feb 18 09:47:19 landlord plasmalogin-helper[19577]: Starting Wayland user session: "/etc/plasmalogin/wayland-session" "/usr/libexec/plasma-dbus-run-se>
Feb 18 09:47:24 landlord plasmalogin[1789]: Auth: plasmalogin-helper exited with 255
The last line had me curious so I looked at selinux:
harry1@landlord:~$ sudo ausearch -m avc -ts today | tail -30
time->Wed Feb 18 09:44:46 2026
type=AVC msg=audit(1771425886.475:207): avc: denied { entrypoint } for pid=11312 comm="plasmalogin-hel" path="/usr/libexec/plasmalogin-helper-start-x11user" dev="nvme0n1p3" ino=5650794 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:xdm_exec_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=0
----
time->Wed Feb 18 09:45:01 2026
type=AVC msg=audit(1771425901.135:228): avc: denied { entrypoint } for pid=17830 comm="plasmalogin-hel" path="/usr/libexec/plasmalogin-helper-start-x11user" dev="nvme0n1p3" ino=5650794 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:xdm_exec_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=0
So my guess is, those with X11 sessions set will have an issue. Has anyone else seen this? Have you seen it reported?