damn, I should really be more concise. > Sorry, but what does "that had no success" mean here? no effect -- it could start but no normal desktop. >Did you get an error message when running it manually, or did Plasma still not >start? (the latter would of course be obvious, because just running qdbus-qt5 >won't fix anything, it was just meant as a test to determine what the problem >is) no did not start. plasma. The only way I could get a sort-of-UI was the fail-safe X session but that is hardly useable for me. I promise to dd the whole image from ssd to a rotating disk for later troubleshooting next time.