Unable to login when using Wayland

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I’ve been using Plasma with Wayland on Debian for ~3 weeks now, and today when I booted up my laptop I found that trying to login while using Wayland would result in both screens going black for a few seconds before it would kick me back to SDDM. Opening a terminal from SDDM and running startplasma-wayland returns:

Error: could not determine $DISPLAY.
Error: Can not connect kdeinit5!
org.kde.startup: “kdeinit5_shutdown” () exited with code 255
startplasma-wayland: Shutting down…
startplasmacompositor: Shutting down…
startplasmacompositor: Done.

I’m able to start X11 without any issue and while I did see another post on here that said deleting/renaming ~/config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc would fix the issue, but doing that doesn’t help.

How do I fix this?

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I’ve now learned that I’m able to use Wayland if I use a different user, but am unable to use Wayland with my primary user.

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It sounds like some customization in your primary user account is conflicting. Do you have any custom environment variables or a custom PATH variable, or anything similarly low-level?

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What/where exactly are custom environment variables or custom PATH variables? I haven’t directly messed with any configuration files related to customization and other than changing my wallpaper to a different image and later back to the old wallpaper, I haven’t messed with any customization for a while.