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black screen with mouse pointer with a twist (plasmashell)

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makeshiftrephrase
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Greetings, I will keep this short concise and update with data.

Distro: Arch Linux aarch64 (As.ahi) kernel on M.1
Software: KDE Plasma 5
Problematic software:
plasmashell
Problem Description:
The distro boots into a black screen with a working mouse pointer (ONLY moving allowed, no left click, doesn't show up) during boot. The exact process is:

FDE password -> black screen ( where usually splash ) -> SDDM login -> black screen + pointer (where usually desktop) -> after around 10 minutes, plasmashell starts by itself and now desktop is visible

So plasmashell either crashes at startup or comes in late. I believe the former from journal data later below, continuing:

DATA:

PKGS: This behaviour has been noted since upgrading the following packages:
https://privatebin.net/?01df13091ccc90d ... fAaLydDAD6 (will check hooks but first collecting other data)

JOURNAL:
Second link is ansi escaped so you can follow this and get color coding for vim. Oct 20th contains a normal run (in which above pkgs were upgraded) whereas Oct 21st all boots started breaking.
https://privatebin.net/?e6aba4284266e40 ... LxKd7kiS8i
https://privatebin.net/?f3e593418c76238 ... xY7B2YkmAH

Also running: journalctl -b -p3 | grep -iE "dumped|gpu|crash|hang|core|SEGV"
https://privatebin.net/?867bdaf86a31326 ... PRqAtwvyBf

Does anyone possibly know how this issue can be resolved? I am conflicting with trying to delete the .config folder, the thing is that I have config backups saved but if the config is the problem then I suppose it would be better to delete directory per directory? Posting first to see if there is a better solution for this before, since it does not really hamper useability too much.
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I would just like to report that I have handled this issue by using Wayland instead of X11, the Xorg server was crashing for some unknown reason. I will probably backup my OS in future or at least before making a next package upgrade that touches Desktop and then I can report whether Wayland also doesn't crash when updating.


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