kde login screen freezes at around 56%

[Luca Ferrari]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Please elaborate. If you write "login screen", I suppose you mean the
> place where you can select the user and enter the password (i.e. the
> sddm screen). But I don't see a progress bar before that screen appears.
> Or do you perhaps mean you can enter your password and then it stops at
> 56% of the progress bar before your desktop whould show up?
>

Sorry, I wrote login screen, but was meaning splash screen (I've
autologin enabled).

> How long did you wait until you decided that something is wrong? And did
> it happen again after a reboot?
>

10 minutes without i/o (disk activity monitored with iostat).


> Furthermore, do you have the desktop configured to restore the previous
> session (that's the default IIRC)? Then there might be a problem
> starting a particular application.

Yes, I've tried also to remove the .kde folder to start out a plain
new session, but nothing changed.
I will search in the logs for any symptom.

Luca