On Tuesday September 12 2023 17:12:14 Michael Eager wrote: >CTRL-ALT-F1 displays the grub splash screen. I can get a virtual That seems odd, to keep that running after the initial boot step! >console with CTRL-ALT-F3. Oddly enough, I can log in on this virtual >console, run startx, and get a plasma screen. So your initial, frozen session is at console #2? What happens if you switch back to it? I didn't mention that in my previous mail, but that's what the "salvation" process is: switch to another virtual console and then back again. Is your 2nd plasma session fully operational as you'd expect? >/var/log/syslog no longer exists. That's odd too, but there must be a successor. Maybe looking at the timestamps of the *rc and *.ini files in ~/.config refreshes your memory of those last changes you made! R