(In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #3) > (In reply to Freek de Kruijf from comment #2) > > I tried this and indeed I can start a Plasma session, but I consider this > > still to be a bug. Closing the Wayland session should end all processes > > which are part of that session. > > And what processes were still running? After loging in into a Plasma Wayland session, and logging out immediately, choosing a normal Plasma session and trying to log in, the login screen reappeared. So I went to tty1 logged in into my account and gave the command "ps ux", which showed the following output: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND freek 2576 0.0 0.2 72992 8272 ? Ss 09:52 0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user freek 2577 0.0 0.0 118736 3540 ? S 09:52 0:00 (sd-pam) freek 2837 0.1 0.5 268759112 22128 ? SNl 09:52 0:00 /usr/bin/baloo_file freek 2923 0.0 0.0 241520 3440 ? Ss 09:52 0:00 gpg-agent --homedir /home/freek/.gnupg --use-standard-socket --daem on freek 2982 0.0 0.0 113028 3576 ? SLl 09:52 0:00 scdaemon --multi-server freek 6100 0.7 0.1 17952 7652 tty1 Ss 09:54 0:00 -bash freek 9029 50.0 0.0 29812 1588 tty1 R+ 09:54 0:00 ps ux I noticed /usr/bin/baloo_file and did a "lsof -p 2837" which showed some log files of which .local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log contains: gpg-agent: a gpg-agent is already running - not starting a new one After that I killed process 2923 and tried to log in again into the normal Plasma session, which succeeded. So it seems gpg-agent is the culprit.