Bug 2440208

Summary: [Kinoite] Plasma Login issue with rawhide rebase
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Christopher Boni <christopher>
Component: plasma-login-managerAssignee: Neal Gompa <ngompa13>
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Version: 44CC: kde-sig, lruzicka, ngompa13, travier
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issue/684
Whiteboard: AcceptedFreezeException
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Description Christopher Boni 2026-02-16 13:16:09 UTC 
This is a tracking bug for the purpose of a Beta Freeze exception: https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issue/684

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As part of the KDE 6.6 test week - I rebased my Fedora Silverblue 43 device to Kinoite Rawhide.

The update process completely perfectly normal however when I reboot the device, I'm greeted with a blank screen/UEFI boot splash until I change to tty2. 

I can still start plasma using `startplasma-wayland` and use it as normal  including locking my screen however logging out does take me back to tty2.

I then rebased to Kinoite 43 which worked as intended which led me to believe this might be an issue with plasmalogin.

Logs below that were generated if they are of any use.
```
21:18:33.896 UTC plasmalogin.service Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8.
Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead.
If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual
for more information.
21:18:33.908 UTC plasmalogin.service [PAM] acctMgmt: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info
21:18:33.908 UTC plasmalogin.service [PAM] Asked to close the session but it wasn't previously open
21:18:33.908 UTC plasmalogin.service Authentication error: PLASMALOGIN::Auth::ERROR_AUTHENTICATION "Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info"
21:18:33.909 UTC plasmalogin.service Autologin failed!
21:18:33.910 UTC plasmalogin.service Auth: plasmalogin-helper exited with 1
21:18:33.916 UTC plasmalogin.service Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8.
Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead.
If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual
for more information.
21:19:05.468 UTC plasmalogin.service Error from greeter session: "Process crashed"
21:19:05.469 UTC plasmalogin.service Auth: plasmalogin-helper (--socket /tmp/plasmalogin-auth-60802b2e-1b38-4354-a913-f9c8e53d24e9 --id 2 --start /usr/bin/startplasma-login-wayland --user plasmalogin --greeter) crashed (exit code 1)
21:19:05.469 UTC plasmalogin.service Error from greeter session: "Process crashed"
21:19:05.469 UTC plasmalogin.service Auth: plasmalogin-helper exited with 1
21:19:05.489 UTC plasmalogin.service Signal received: SIGTERM
```


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Fedora Blocker Bugs Application 2026-02-16 13:18:18 UTC 
Proposed as a Freeze Exception for 44-beta by Fedora user boniboyblue using the blocker tracking app because:

 Atomic Desktop users are unable to cleanly upgrade to Fedora Kinoite 44. Would like to get this fixed before beta release.
Comment 2 Lukas Ruzicka 2026-02-16 17:55:34 UTC 
AGREED AcceptedBetaFreezeException

Discussed at the 2026-02-16 (blocker / freeze exception) review meeting:

This is accepted as an FE as a significant upgrade issue for a non-blocking configuration (Kinoite). We just ask that care be taken that any fix doesn't affect any release-blocking KDE configuration.

https://meetbot-raw.fedoraproject.org//blocker-review_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2026-02-16/f44-blocker-review.2026-02-16-17.00.txt