Login freezes on Manjaro KDE Plasma with fprintd enabled

I recently installed Manjaro KDE along with kernel 5.14 and noticed that I began experiencing issues with logging in.

Namely, when the system boots up and I have fprint enabled, more often than not, the login screen hangs after entering my login details (even when I’m not using my fingerprint) and I have to use ctrl-alt-f2 to go into a TTY session and run startx manually.

The moment I removed the line that enables fprint login from /etc/pam.d/sddm, regular login worked immediately.

Is there a known issue with SDDM and pam.d or fprint in regards to this issue?

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