I am running OpenSuSE 15.5 with KDE/Plasma on my laptop and I, this morning, gave it permission to install the latest set of updates that I was told were waiting. It included a kernel update and as usual those want me to reboot after being installed. So I did and now I can no longer get my desktop up and running. The visual log, seen by using the Esc key during the system startup process, gives the following clues. During a regular (init 5) startup, I see two "start jobs" that seem to run forever - (1 of 2) A start job is running for User Login Management (xxmin xxs / ymin) (2 of 2) A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes up (xxmin xxsec / no limit) Start job (1 of 2) keeps upping the ymin limit for about 15 to 20 minutes and then the following messages are logged - FAILED] Failed to start User Login Management. See 'systemctl status systemd-logind services' for details. [ OK ] Stopped User Login Management. Starting Load Kernel Module drm... [ OK ] Finished Load Kernel Module drm. Starting User Login Management... Starting Cleanup of Temporary Directories... [ OK ] Finished Cleanup of Temporary Directories. and then this cycle repeats forever. I next tried to start up OpenSuSE to init 3 and only the following error message was simply reported - FAILED to start Command Scheduler I am then allowed to login as root but I don't know what to do or how to proceed. While logged in, I do get repeating message interrupts telling me - kernel:[ nnn.nnnnnnn C0] BUG:workqueue lockup - pool cpus=14 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 stuck for xxxs! So how do I get my laptop back to a happy state? Marc C 1 1 -- --... ...-- .----. ... -.. . .-- .- --... .--. -..- .-- -- .- .-. -.-. <b>Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc.<br> His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications.<br> To boldly go where no Marc has gone before!<br></b>