EndeavourOS Keeps Crashing When I Try to Login

I have a Framework16 laptop and ran the usual update with yay, but after I rebooted I’m now unable to login. I’m able to type in my password, but it will freeze up on the DE loading screen.

Here’s the output I got from journalctl:

Feb 07 12:51:39 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 0
Feb 07 12:51:41 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 07 12:51:42 emcee-laptop16 kernel: faux_driver regulatory: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
Feb 07 12:51:42 emcee-laptop16 kernel: cros-usbpd-charger cros-usbpd-charger.6.auto: probe with driver cros-usbpd-charger failed with error -71
Feb 07 12:51:45 emcee-laptop16 NetworkManager[976]: [1770486705.0764] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): error setting IPv4 forwarding to ‘0’: Resource temporarily unavailable
Feb 07 12:58:52 emcee-laptop16 sddm[1003]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 07 12:58:52 emcee-laptop16 sddm[1003]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 07 12:58:52 emcee-laptop16 kwin_wayland[1236]: PipeWire remote error: connection error
Feb 07 12:58:53 emcee-laptop16 kernel: plasmashell[1464]: segfault at 5588bba0ea02 ip 00007f0fafe86f54 sp 00007ffe67179740 error 4 in libwayland-client.so.0.24.0[6f54,7f0fafe83000+7000] likely on CPU 10 (core 5, socket 0)
Feb 07 13:00:42 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 0
Feb 07 13:00:43 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 07 13:00:44 emcee-laptop16 kernel: faux_driver regulatory: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
Feb 07 13:00:45 emcee-laptop16 kernel: cros-usbpd-charger cros-usbpd-charger.6.auto: probe with driver cros-usbpd-charger failed with error -71
Feb 07 13:00:48 emcee-laptop16 NetworkManager[983]: [1770487248.1245] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): error setting IPv4 forwarding to ‘0’: Resource temporarily unavailable
Feb 07 13:02:11 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 0
Feb 07 13:02:12 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 07 13:02:13 emcee-laptop16 kernel: faux_driver regulatory: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
Feb 07 13:02:14 emcee-laptop16 kernel: cros-usbpd-charger cros-usbpd-charger.6.auto: probe with driver cros-usbpd-charger failed with error -71
Feb 07 13:02:16 emcee-laptop16 NetworkManager[989]: [1770487336.9369] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): error setting IPv4 forwarding to ‘0’: Resource temporarily unavailable
Feb 07 14:30:21 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 0
Feb 07 14:30:22 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 07 14:30:23 emcee-laptop16 kernel: faux_driver regulatory: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
Feb 07 14:30:24 emcee-laptop16 kernel: cros-usbpd-charger cros-usbpd-charger.6.auto: probe with driver cros-usbpd-charger failed with error -71
Feb 07 14:30:26 emcee-laptop16 NetworkManager[980]: [1770492626.8389] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): error setting IPv4 forwarding to ‘0’: Resource temporarily unavailable
Feb 08 13:59:29 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 08 13:59:30 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 08 13:59:32 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 08 14:00:01 emcee-laptop16 kernel: faux_driver regulatory: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
Feb 08 14:01:23 emcee-laptop16 NetworkManager[1019]: [1770577283.8427] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): error setting IPv4 forwarding to ‘0’: Resource temporarily unavailable
Feb 08 14:09:36 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 08 14:09:37 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 08 14:09:39 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 08 14:10:15 emcee-laptop16 kernel: faux_driver regulatory: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
Feb 08 14:11:34 emcee-laptop16 NetworkManager[1003]: [1770577894.8108] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): error setting IPv4 forwarding to ‘0’: Resource temporarily unavailable
Feb 08 14:21:19 emcee-laptop16 sddm[1061]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 08 14:21:19 emcee-laptop16 sddm[1061]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 08 14:21:21 emcee-laptop16 kwin_wayland[1329]: PipeWire remote error: connection error
Feb 08 14:22:55 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 08 14:22:57 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 08 14:22:58 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 08 14:23:28 emcee-laptop16 kernel: faux_driver regulatory: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
Feb 08 14:24:51 emcee-laptop16 NetworkManager[1022]: [1770578691.9539] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): error setting IPv4 forwarding to ‘0’: Resource temporarily unavailable
Feb 08 15:25:04 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 08 15:25:06 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 08 15:25:06 emcee-laptop16 kernel: faux_driver regulatory: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
Feb 08 15:25:10 emcee-laptop16 NetworkManager[980]: [1770582310.1811] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): error setting IPv4 forwarding to ‘0’: Resource temporarily unavailable
Feb 08 15:28:51 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 08 15:28:52 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 08 15:28:53 emcee-laptop16 kernel: faux_driver regulatory: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
Feb 08 15:28:57 emcee-laptop16 NetworkManager[981]: [1770582537.0945] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): error setting IPv4 forwarding to ‘0’: Resource temporarily unavailable
Feb 08 15:29:07 emcee-laptop16 sddm[1016]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_AUTHENTICATION “Authentication failure”
Feb 08 15:31:52 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 08 15:31:53 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 08 15:31:55 emcee-laptop16 kernel: faux_driver regulatory: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
Feb 08 15:31:58 emcee-laptop16 NetworkManager[978]: [1770582718.2238] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): error setting IPv4 forwarding to ‘0’: Resource temporarily unavailable
Feb 08 15:32:11 emcee-laptop16 krunner[2054]: currency conversion table network error “Host www.ecb.europa.eu not found”
Feb 08 15:33:01 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 08 15:33:02 emcee-laptop16 kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 08 15:33:04 emcee-laptop16 kernel: faux_driver regulatory: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
Feb 08 15:33:07 emcee-laptop16 NetworkManager[979]: [1770582787.1588] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): error setting IPv4 forwarding to ‘0’: Resource temporarily unavailable
Feb 08 15:33:17 emcee-laptop16 sddm[1014]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_AUTHENTICATION “Authentication failure”
Feb 10 18:41:21 EndeavourOS kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 10 18:41:22 EndeavourOS kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 256
Feb 10 18:41:39 EndeavourOS NetworkManager[1167]: [1770766899.8726] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): error setting IPv4 forwarding to ‘0’: Resource temporarily unavailable

Can you post something error related from sddm logs

Have you enough space on / or /home?

There’s plenty of space on the drive still. And curious enough, this issue happened on both of my drives on the Framework16 laptop. Forgive me, but I needed the use of my laptop, so I ended up wiping and reinstalling EndeavourOS on the drive I was initially sharing the log for. But I’m hoping we can resolve the problem on my encrypted drive.

Some of the commands didn’t yield any info and just outputted “–No Entries–”, which were the commands for current boot and last 1 hour. The commands for the real-time and for the identifier didn’t produce any output for me, but that could likely be my own fault since I’m pretty unfamiliar with using these commands. The encrypted drive uses BTRFS while the original drive uses EXT4, if that matters.

SDDM logs for the encrypted drive:

– Boot fd76edec2d9345adb8eaf2788dc5c6a8 –
Feb 07 12:47:50 emcee-laptop systemd[1]: Started Simple Desktop Display Manager.
Feb 07 12:47:50 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Initializing…
Feb 07 12:47:50 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Starting…
Feb 07 12:47:50 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Logind interface found
Feb 07 12:47:52 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Adding new display…
Feb 07 12:47:52 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Loaded empty theme configuration
Feb 07 12:47:52 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Xauthority path: “/run/sddm/xauth_WuBQXh”
Feb 07 12:47:52 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Using VT 2
Feb 07 12:47:52 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Display server starting…
Feb 07 12:47:52 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Writing cookie to “/run/sddm/xauth_WuBQXh”
Feb 07 12:47:52 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -background none -seat seat0 vt2 -auth /run/sddm/xauth_WuBQXh -noreset -displayfd 16
Feb 07 12:47:53 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Setting default cursor
Feb 07 12:47:53 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Could not setup default cursor
Feb 07 12:47:53 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Running display setup script “/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup”
Feb 07 12:47:53 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Display server started.
Feb 07 12:47:53 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Socket server starting…
Feb 07 12:47:53 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Socket server started.
Feb 07 12:47:53 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Loading theme configuration from “/usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf”
Feb 07 12:47:53 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Greeter starting…
Feb 07 12:47:53 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5534]: [PAM] Starting…
Feb 07 12:47:53 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5534]: [PAM] Authenticating…
Feb 07 12:47:53 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5534]: [PAM] returning.
Feb 07 12:47:53 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5534]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm(uid=960) by (uid=0)
Feb 07 12:47:53 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5534]: Writing cookie to “/tmp/xauth_ZhzCyq”
Feb 07 12:47:53 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5534]: Starting X11 session: “” “/usr/bin/sddm-greeter-qt6 --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-AWLVEZ --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze”
Feb 07 12:47:53 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Greeter session started successfully
Feb 07 12:47:53 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Message received from greeter: Connect
Feb 07 12:47:58 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Message received from greeter: Login
Feb 07 12:47:58 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Reading from “/usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasma.desktop”
Feb 07 12:47:58 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Session “/usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasma.desktop” selected, command: “/usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland” for VT 1
Feb 07 12:47:58 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5596]: [PAM] Starting…
Feb 07 12:47:58 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5596]: [PAM] Authenticating…
Feb 07 12:47:58 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5596]: [PAM] Preparing to converse…
Feb 07 12:47:58 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5596]: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages
Feb 07 12:47:59 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5596]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:auth): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_authenticate
Feb 07 12:47:59 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5596]: [PAM] returning.
Feb 07 12:47:59 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Authentication for user “emcee” successful
Feb 07 12:47:59 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5596]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred
Feb 07 12:47:59 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5596]: pam_unix(sddm:session): session opened for user emcee(uid=1000) by emcee(uid=0)
Feb 07 12:47:59 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Auth: sddm-helper exited successfully
Feb 07 12:47:59 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Greeter stopped. SDDM::Auth::HELPER_SUCCESS
Feb 07 12:47:59 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5596]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:session): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_open_session
Feb 07 12:47:59 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5596]: Starting Wayland user session: “/usr/share/sddm/scripts/wayland-session” “/usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland”
Feb 07 12:47:59 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Session started true
Feb 07 12:49:52 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 07 12:49:52 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Auth: sddm-helper (–socket /tmp/sddm-auth-4bccb70d-a18b-49e0-833a-d4f2406fa837 --id 1 --start /usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland --user emcee) crashed (exit code 1)
Feb 07 12:49:52 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 07 12:49:52 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 1
Feb 07 12:49:52 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Signal received: SIGTERM
Feb 07 12:49:52 emcee-laptop systemd[1]: Stopping Simple Desktop Display Manager…
Feb 07 12:49:52 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Socket server stopping…
Feb 07 12:49:52 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Socket server stopped.
Feb 07 12:49:52 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Display server stopping…
Feb 07 12:49:54 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Display server stopped.
Feb 07 12:49:54 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Running display stop script QList(“/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xstop”)
Feb 07 12:49:54 emcee-laptop systemd[1]: sddm.service: Deactivated successfully.
Feb 07 12:49:54 emcee-laptop systemd[1]: Stopped Simple Desktop Display Manager.
Feb 07 12:49:54 emcee-laptop systemd[1]: sddm.service: Consumed 813ms CPU time over 2min 3.583s wall clock time, 263M memory peak.
– Boot 053cf95bd6804f43afb2701e6027ed94 –
Feb 07 13:39:01 emcee-laptop systemd[1]: Started Simple Desktop Display Manager.
Feb 07 13:39:01 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Initializing…
Feb 07 13:39:01 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Starting…
Feb 07 13:39:01 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Logind interface found
Feb 07 13:39:03 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Adding new display…
Feb 07 13:39:03 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Loaded empty theme configuration
Feb 07 13:39:03 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Xauthority path: “/run/sddm/xauth_wWgmuN”
Feb 07 13:39:03 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Using VT 2
Feb 07 13:39:03 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Display server starting…
Feb 07 13:39:03 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Writing cookie to “/run/sddm/xauth_wWgmuN”
Feb 07 13:39:03 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -background none -seat seat0 vt2 -auth /run/sddm/xauth_wWgmuN -noreset -displayfd 16
Feb 07 13:39:04 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Setting default cursor
Feb 07 13:39:04 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Could not setup default cursor
Feb 07 13:39:04 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Running display setup script “/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup”
Feb 07 13:39:04 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Display server started.
Feb 07 13:39:04 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Socket server starting…
Feb 07 13:39:04 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Socket server started.
Feb 07 13:39:04 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Loading theme configuration from “/usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf”
Feb 07 13:39:04 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Greeter starting…
Feb 07 13:39:04 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[1973]: [PAM] Starting…
Feb 07 13:39:04 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[1973]: [PAM] Authenticating…
Feb 07 13:39:04 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[1973]: [PAM] returning.
Feb 07 13:39:04 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[1973]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm(uid=960) by (uid=0)
Feb 07 13:39:04 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[1973]: Writing cookie to “/tmp/xauth_WfnqgQ”
Feb 07 13:39:04 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[1973]: Starting X11 session: “” “/usr/bin/sddm-greeter-qt6 --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-DdBBYV --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze”
Feb 07 13:39:04 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Greeter session started successfully
Feb 07 13:39:05 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Message received from greeter: Connect
Feb 07 13:39:33 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Message received from greeter: Login
Feb 07 13:39:33 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Reading from “/usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasma.desktop”
Feb 07 13:39:33 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Session “/usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasma.desktop” selected, command: “/usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland” for VT 1
Feb 07 13:39:33 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2047]: [PAM] Starting…
Feb 07 13:39:33 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2047]: [PAM] Authenticating…
Feb 07 13:39:33 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2047]: [PAM] Preparing to converse…
Feb 07 13:39:33 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2047]: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages
Feb 07 13:39:33 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2047]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:auth): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_authenticate
Feb 07 13:39:33 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2047]: [PAM] returning.
Feb 07 13:39:33 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Authentication for user “emcee” successful
Feb 07 13:39:33 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2047]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred
Feb 07 13:39:33 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2047]: pam_unix(sddm:session): session opened for user emcee(uid=1000) by emcee(uid=0)
Feb 07 13:39:33 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Auth: sddm-helper exited successfully
Feb 07 13:39:33 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Greeter stopped. SDDM::Auth::HELPER_SUCCESS
Feb 07 13:39:33 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2047]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:session): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_open_session
Feb 07 13:39:33 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2047]: Starting Wayland user session: “/usr/share/sddm/scripts/wayland-session” “/usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland”
Feb 07 13:39:35 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Session started true
Feb 07 13:42:30 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 07 13:42:30 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Auth: sddm-helper (–socket /tmp/sddm-auth-6adaae34-714b-44e8-983f-8bb045d8b49f --id 1 --start /usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland --user emcee) crashed (exit code 1)
Feb 07 13:42:30 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 07 13:42:30 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 1
Feb 07 13:42:30 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Signal received: SIGTERM
Feb 07 13:42:30 emcee-laptop systemd[1]: Stopping Simple Desktop Display Manager…
Feb 07 13:42:30 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Socket server stopping…
Feb 07 13:42:30 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Socket server stopped.
Feb 07 13:42:30 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Display server stopping…
Feb 07 13:42:33 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Display server stopped.
Feb 07 13:42:33 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Running display stop script QList(“/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xstop”)
Feb 07 13:42:33 emcee-laptop systemd[1]: sddm.service: Deactivated successfully.
Feb 07 13:42:33 emcee-laptop systemd[1]: Stopped Simple Desktop Display Manager.
Feb 07 13:42:33 emcee-laptop systemd[1]: sddm.service: Consumed 1.065s CPU time over 3min 31.328s wall clock time, 265.7M memory peak.
– Boot 9c8d4528a6a941b3879b995c58c166b6 –
Feb 07 13:45:56 emcee-laptop systemd[1]: Started Simple Desktop Display Manager.
Feb 07 13:45:56 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Initializing…
Feb 07 13:45:56 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Starting…
Feb 07 13:45:56 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Logind interface found
Feb 07 13:45:58 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Adding new display…
Feb 07 13:45:58 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Loaded empty theme configuration
Feb 07 13:45:58 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Xauthority path: “/run/sddm/xauth_iPOKgN”
Feb 07 13:45:58 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Using VT 2
Feb 07 13:45:58 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Display server starting…
Feb 07 13:45:58 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Writing cookie to “/run/sddm/xauth_iPOKgN”
Feb 07 13:45:58 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -background none -seat seat0 vt2 -auth /run/sddm/xauth_iPOKgN -noreset -displayfd 16
Feb 07 13:45:59 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Setting default cursor
Feb 07 13:45:59 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Could not setup default cursor
Feb 07 13:45:59 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Running display setup script “/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup”
Feb 07 13:45:59 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Display server started.
Feb 07 13:45:59 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Socket server starting…
Feb 07 13:45:59 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Socket server started.
Feb 07 13:45:59 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Loading theme configuration from “/usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf”
Feb 07 13:45:59 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Greeter starting…
Feb 07 13:45:59 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5110]: [PAM] Starting…
Feb 07 13:45:59 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5110]: [PAM] Authenticating…
Feb 07 13:45:59 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5110]: [PAM] returning.
Feb 07 13:45:59 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5110]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm(uid=960) by (uid=0)
Feb 07 13:45:59 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5110]: Writing cookie to “/tmp/xauth_Bxbfpq”
Feb 07 13:45:59 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5110]: Starting X11 session: “” “/usr/bin/sddm-greeter-qt6 --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-VjMWnv --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze”
Feb 07 13:45:59 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Greeter session started successfully
Feb 07 13:46:00 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Message received from greeter: Connect
Feb 07 13:46:38 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Message received from greeter: Login
Feb 07 13:46:38 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Reading from “/usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasma.desktop”
Feb 07 13:46:38 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Session “/usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasma.desktop” selected, command: “/usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland” for VT 1
Feb 07 13:46:38 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5182]: [PAM] Starting…
Feb 07 13:46:38 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5182]: [PAM] Authenticating…
Feb 07 13:46:38 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5182]: [PAM] Preparing to converse…
Feb 07 13:46:38 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5182]: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages
Feb 07 13:46:38 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5182]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:auth): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_authenticate
Feb 07 13:46:38 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5182]: [PAM] returning.
Feb 07 13:46:38 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Authentication for user “emcee” successful
Feb 07 13:46:38 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5182]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred
Feb 07 13:46:38 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5182]: pam_unix(sddm:session): session opened for user emcee(uid=1000) by emcee(uid=0)
Feb 07 13:46:38 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Auth: sddm-helper exited successfully
Feb 07 13:46:38 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Greeter stopped. SDDM::Auth::HELPER_SUCCESS
Feb 07 13:46:38 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5182]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:session): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_open_session
Feb 07 13:46:38 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[5182]: Starting Wayland user session: “/usr/share/sddm/scripts/wayland-session” “/usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland”
Feb 07 13:46:40 emcee-laptop sddm[4944]: Session started true
– Boot f11638d56145430dabbba6d4585d1264 –
Feb 07 13:47:56 emcee-laptop systemd[1]: Started Simple Desktop Display Manager.
Feb 07 13:47:56 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Initializing…
Feb 07 13:47:56 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Starting…
Feb 07 13:47:56 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Logind interface found
Feb 07 13:47:58 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Adding new display…
Feb 07 13:47:58 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Loaded empty theme configuration
Feb 07 13:47:58 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Xauthority path: “/run/sddm/xauth_AgRGSu”
Feb 07 13:47:58 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Using VT 2
Feb 07 13:47:58 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Display server starting…
Feb 07 13:47:58 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Writing cookie to “/run/sddm/xauth_AgRGSu”
Feb 07 13:47:58 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -background none -seat seat0 vt2 -auth /run/sddm/xauth_AgRGSu -noreset -displayfd 16
Feb 07 13:48:00 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Setting default cursor
Feb 07 13:48:00 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Could not setup default cursor
Feb 07 13:48:00 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Running display setup script “/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup”
Feb 07 13:48:00 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Display server started.
Feb 07 13:48:00 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Socket server starting…
Feb 07 13:48:00 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Socket server started.
Feb 07 13:48:00 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Loading theme configuration from “/usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf”
Feb 07 13:48:00 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Greeter starting…
Feb 07 13:48:00 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2290]: [PAM] Starting…
Feb 07 13:48:00 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2290]: [PAM] Authenticating…
Feb 07 13:48:00 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2290]: [PAM] returning.
Feb 07 13:48:00 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2290]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm(uid=960) by (uid=0)
Feb 07 13:48:00 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2290]: Writing cookie to “/tmp/xauth_cfmdGd”
Feb 07 13:48:00 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2290]: Starting X11 session: “” “/usr/bin/sddm-greeter-qt6 --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-MEPchn --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze”
Feb 07 13:48:00 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Greeter session started successfully
Feb 07 13:48:00 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Message received from greeter: Connect
Feb 07 13:48:06 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Message received from greeter: Login
Feb 07 13:48:06 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Reading from “/usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasma.desktop”
Feb 07 13:48:06 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Session “/usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasma.desktop” selected, command: “/usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland” for VT 1
Feb 07 13:48:06 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2354]: [PAM] Starting…
Feb 07 13:48:06 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2354]: [PAM] Authenticating…
Feb 07 13:48:06 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2354]: [PAM] Preparing to converse…
Feb 07 13:48:06 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2354]: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages
Feb 07 13:48:06 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2354]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:auth): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_authenticate
Feb 07 13:48:06 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2354]: [PAM] returning.
Feb 07 13:48:06 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Authentication for user “emcee” successful
Feb 07 13:48:06 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2354]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred
Feb 07 13:48:06 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2354]: pam_unix(sddm:session): session opened for user emcee(uid=1000) by emcee(uid=0)
Feb 07 13:48:06 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Auth: sddm-helper exited successfully
Feb 07 13:48:06 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Greeter stopped. SDDM::Auth::HELPER_SUCCESS
Feb 07 13:48:06 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2354]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:session): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_open_session
Feb 07 13:48:06 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2354]: Starting Wayland user session: “/usr/share/sddm/scripts/wayland-session” “/usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland”
Feb 07 13:48:06 emcee-laptop sddm[2116]: Session started true
– Boot 58468a4edc1f490abf70d7ba17d53996 –
Feb 08 15:21:14 emcee-laptop systemd[1]: Started Simple Desktop Display Manager.
Feb 08 15:21:14 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Initializing…
Feb 08 15:21:14 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Starting…
Feb 08 15:21:14 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Logind interface found
Feb 08 15:21:15 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Adding new display…
Feb 08 15:21:15 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Loaded empty theme configuration
Feb 08 15:21:15 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Xauthority path: “/run/sddm/xauth_jVtHJg”
Feb 08 15:21:15 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Using VT 2
Feb 08 15:21:15 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Display server starting…
Feb 08 15:21:15 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Writing cookie to “/run/sddm/xauth_jVtHJg”
Feb 08 15:21:15 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -background none -seat seat0 vt2 -auth /run/sddm/xauth_jVtHJg -noreset -displayfd 16
Feb 08 15:21:16 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Setting default cursor
Feb 08 15:21:16 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Could not setup default cursor
Feb 08 15:21:16 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Running display setup script “/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup”
Feb 08 15:21:16 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Display server started.
Feb 08 15:21:16 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Socket server starting…
Feb 08 15:21:16 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Socket server started.
Feb 08 15:21:16 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Loading theme configuration from “/usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf”
Feb 08 15:21:16 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Greeter starting…
Feb 08 15:21:16 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2017]: [PAM] Starting…
Feb 08 15:21:16 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2017]: [PAM] Authenticating…
Feb 08 15:21:16 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2017]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm(uid=960) by (uid=0)
Feb 08 15:21:16 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2017]: [PAM] returning.
Feb 08 15:21:17 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2017]: Writing cookie to “/tmp/xauth_BQfklq”
Feb 08 15:21:17 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2017]: Starting X11 session: “” “/usr/bin/sddm-greeter-qt6 --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-tmzuvy --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze”
Feb 08 15:21:17 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Greeter session started successfully
Feb 08 15:21:17 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Message received from greeter: Connect
Feb 08 15:21:21 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Message received from greeter: Login
Feb 08 15:21:21 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Reading from “/usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasma.desktop”
Feb 08 15:21:21 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Session “/usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasma.desktop” selected, command: “/usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland” for VT 1
Feb 08 15:21:21 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2080]: [PAM] Starting…
Feb 08 15:21:21 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2080]: [PAM] Authenticating…
Feb 08 15:21:22 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2080]: [PAM] Preparing to converse…
Feb 08 15:21:22 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2080]: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages
Feb 08 15:21:22 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2080]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:auth): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_authenticate
Feb 08 15:21:22 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2080]: [PAM] returning.
Feb 08 15:21:22 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Authentication for user “emcee” successful
Feb 08 15:21:22 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2080]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred
Feb 08 15:21:22 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2080]: pam_unix(sddm:session): session opened for user emcee(uid=1000) by emcee(uid=0)
Feb 08 15:21:22 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Auth: sddm-helper exited successfully
Feb 08 15:21:22 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Greeter stopped. SDDM::Auth::HELPER_SUCCESS
Feb 08 15:21:22 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2080]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:session): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_open_session
Feb 08 15:21:22 emcee-laptop sddm-helper[2080]: Starting Wayland user session: “/usr/share/sddm/scripts/wayland-session” “/usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland”
Feb 08 15:21:22 emcee-laptop sddm[1834]: Session started true

Error logs for the encrypted drive:

Feb 01 00:34:08 emcee-laptop sddm[2523]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 01 15:03:07 emcee-laptop sddm[2383]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 01 15:03:07 emcee-laptop sddm[2383]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 02 01:49:05 emcee-laptop sddm[1890]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 02 01:49:05 emcee-laptop sddm[1890]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 02 18:43:57 emcee-laptop sddm[1828]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 02 18:43:57 emcee-laptop sddm[1828]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 02 18:44:56 emcee-laptop sddm[2459]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_AUTHENTICATION “Authentication failure”
Feb 03 00:32:40 emcee-laptop sddm[2459]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 03 00:32:40 emcee-laptop sddm[2459]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 03 20:11:21 emcee-laptop sddm[1874]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_AUTHENTICATION “Authentication failure”
Feb 04 01:42:35 emcee-laptop sddm[1874]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 04 01:42:35 emcee-laptop sddm[1874]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 05 17:50:28 emcee-laptop sddm[1841]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_AUTHENTICATION “Authentication failure”
Feb 05 23:46:44 emcee-laptop sddm[1841]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 05 23:46:44 emcee-laptop sddm[1841]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 06 07:17:48 emcee-laptop sddm[1853]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 06 07:17:48 emcee-laptop sddm[1853]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 06 18:10:55 emcee-laptop sddm[2034]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_AUTHENTICATION “Authentication failure”
Feb 07 01:55:13 emcee-laptop sddm[2034]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 07 01:55:13 emcee-laptop sddm[2034]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 07 12:49:52 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 07 12:49:52 emcee-laptop sddm[5362]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 07 13:42:30 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Feb 07 13:42:30 emcee-laptop sddm[1801]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”

Just a quick inquiry as it hasn’t been asked as far as I can tell, are you using the default SDDM theme?

May not help but will also help rule it out