After booting, I am presented with the GUI login. After specifying credentials, a black screen with the Breeze Dark logo (3 dots and a “>”) is shown with a spinning circle. After about 20 seconds, the circle stops rotating (frozen).
My workaround is to switch to a different terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F2), login via command line, and then run startx. The normal desktop quickly shows without issue.
Things were working fine until about a month ago after an update. I was hoping things would rectify themselves with a further update, but apparently not. Any ideas why the graphical route fails?
EDIT1: There is no issue if I create a new user and login to that account.
Here is the output of System Information. For reasons unknown to me, I can’t post the output of inxi due to links not being allowed.
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.79.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.10.19-1-MANJARO
OS Type: 64-bit
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 6 × Intel® Core™ i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz
Memory: 15.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 630