Reply #2 Ok, for curiosity, i disabled wifi, set it to be started manually only, left ethernet to be started automatically. I shut down the computer, leaving the ethernet cable plugged in and started up the computer. journalctl reports: Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net systemd[1]: Started user@988.service - User Manager for UID 988. Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=user@988 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname> Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net systemd[1]: Started session-c1.scope - Session c1 of User sddm. Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net audit[1282]: USER_START pid=1282 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=PAM:session_open grantors=pam_unix,pam_systemd acct> Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net sddm-helper[1282]: Starting X11 session: "" "/usr/bin/sddm-greeter --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-DVndsw --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/01-breeze-fedora" Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net sddm-greeter[1298]: could not connect to display :0 Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net audit[1298]: ANOM_ABEND auid=4294967295 uid=988 gid=986 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 pid=1298 comm="sddm-greeter" exe="/usr/bin/sddm-greeter" s> Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net sddm-greeter[1298]: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net sddm-greeter[1298]: This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx> Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net systemd[1]: Created slice system-systemd\x2dcoredump.slice - Slice /system/systemd-coredump. Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net audit: BPF prog-id=79 op=LOAD Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net audit: BPF prog-id=80 op=LOAD Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net audit: BPF prog-id=81 op=LOAD Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=systemd-coredump@0-1299-0 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/> Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net systemd[1]: Started systemd-coredump@0-1299-0.service - Process Core Dump (PID 1299/UID 0). Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net [1302]: [156B blob data] Sep 24 10:45:51 node-1w7jr9y9ftt7b9r339kpge4hj.ipv6.telus.net systemd-coredump[1301]: [🡕] Process 1298 (sddm-greeter) of user 988 dumped core. As far as I can tell, it does the same thing. SDDM will not start, so the system hangs, does not present a login screen and does a core dump. So, basically, I need to keep the ethernet cable unplugged until logged in. The wifi can remain automatic or manual, makes no difference. Ideas on this? _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue