(In reply to Stefan Dirsch from comment #9) > You never described what exactly happened. Which desktop have you seleced? > GNOME, KDE. Anything else? No desktop at all? Which displaymanager is > running (in case you know this)? Is the Xserver crashing, i.e. you get a new > login screen? Or do you see a blank screen? Anything else? > > From the initial description it looked like you were logging into the Linux > console and then ran startx. Which simply no longer works since a long time. At first reboot, get logging screen with initial user name Type the password Get a blank screen with a little windows X type with a message: "Could not start kdeinit5. Check your installation" So I stopped Xserver from keyboard. Got the logging screen Restart the computer and edit the command line and add "init 3" Log as initial user. Then ran startx .