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I'm really sorry that I can't put this issue in more precise words. I hope you can understand what I mean.

I now run Mageia 6 on all my machines, using the default Plasma desktop. One of the few modifications I have made is that I have chosen the Air desktop theme because I don't like Breeze.

After installing the latest updates a few hours ago, I noticed that the desktop no longer had translucency (which Air normally does), and that the rounded corners of the menus were not drawn properly. This is not a big issue, but seemed odd.

What is a big issue is that I can now no longer log into my user desktop at all after a system reboot. The computer starts up and so does the X server. The graphical login screen appears, and I can enter my login and password. But when I click on "Login" or press the Enter key, the Plasma desktop doesn't start. I'm stuck on the login screen. I have waited for a long time, and I have tried this several times after rebooting. I can't log into IceWM under my usual user name either, so the issue is probably in my user directory.

I am still able to log into another user profile (created just for testing purposes and essentially blank) using either Plasma or IceWM. So I can use the machine in graphical mode, and I have access to my documents if I become root. But I'd like to know what has gone wrong with my login, and how I can fix it.

Any ideas?

remove or move the .config directory in your home directory.


mv .config .config.orig


try again

regards peter

Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, that didn't help. What else except .config may be involved in starting the session?

I think I found a solution. Prompted by your suggestion to rename .config, I looked for other hidden files or directories that might potentially be involved in displaying the desktop. I came across a directory called ~/.fop, which seemed to contain some kind of font cache. Since removing this directory and its contents, I can log in again.

Some of my desktop configurations had to be restored manually even after mv .config_old .config, which doesn't quite make sense to me. But the main thing is that I can log in again. Thank you.

Gelsenbury wrote:Some of my desktop configurations had to be restored manually even after mv .config_old .config, which doesn't quite make sense to me.

If you did exactly that with an existing .config directory then .config_old will be moved into .config/.config_old and nothing will be overwritten.

That's exactly what happened. I was sure I had deleted the existing .config directory, that's why it didn't even occur to me.