Unable to start plasma in wayland/plasma freezes on login

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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As title: When I try to log into plasma wayland with correct password it freezes.
This started when used secondary monitor and didn’t happen before.
X11 works fine and if I type wrong password it says that it is wrong as normal.
please check journalctl log:
bootlog.odt (687.8 KB)
thank you for help

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Hardware?

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Laptop
OS: EndeavourOS x86_64
Host: XMG FUSION 15 (XFU15M22) (M38559-402)
Kernel: Linux 6.6.60-1-lts
Uptime: 10 mins
Packages: 2366 (pacman), 18 (flatpak)
Display (BOE0974): 2560x1440 @ 165 Hz in 16" [Built-in]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.2.3
WM: KWin (X11)
WM Theme: Breeze
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i7-11800H (16) @ 4.60 GHz
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q
GPU 2: Intel UHD Graphics @ 1.45 GHz [Integrated]
Memory: 3.77 GiB / 30.93 GiB (12%)
Swap: 3.75 MiB / 34.02 GiB (0%)
Disk (/): 912.16 GiB / 1.76 TiB (51%) - ext4
Disk (/run/media/anze/Samsung SSD): 121.41 GiB / 915.82 GiB (13%) - ext4
Battery (standard): 80% [Charging, AC Connected]
Locale: en_US.UTF-8
…
but I believe it is not the issue related to the hardware.
I created new user and it works just fine in plasma wayland. So it must be something corrupted in my configuration. If you have any idea what could it be. I have already deleted some kwin configs.
Another symptom is that it changes screen brightness to maximum and starts using dedicated gpu (fans start to spin)

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@anze
In the log there is something like ANSI_X3.4-1968 is not an UTF-8
So, the difference of the two users must be in in character set
It is not clear for me these are global ones:

locale
localectl
locale -a

Source

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Hi eso, thank you for your suggestion, but this warning was present before plasma stopped working and could not be the issue that is causing plasma wayland not to start.

anze@eos ~ $ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
anze@eos ~ $ localectl
System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
               LANGUAGE=en_US:en:C:sl-SI
               LC_TIME=sl_SI.UTF-8
               LC_PAPER=sl_SI.UTF-8
               LC_MEASUREMENT=sl_SI.UTF-8
    VC Keymap: slovene
   X11 Layout: si
anze@eos ~ $ locale -a
C
C.utf8
en_US.utf8
POSIX
sl_SI.utf8
anze@eos ~ $
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I have renamed .config and .local directories and now it is working. I will try to find what was causing the freezing and post it here.

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It was something in .config directory that was the issue. I am not able to locate exact file.

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