black screen and cursor, and nothing more

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 17/08/18 18:28, dep wrote:
> when i select plasma at the login screen, all seems to go well but for the
> appearance not of plasma but of a black screen with a mouse cursor. no
> clicking of either button produces anything, and the only escape is
> ant-f1, login, and rebooting from there.
Just to check if it's the issue I had, try this: when you get the black 
screen with the cursor, start pressing random keys on the keyboard. Like 
ctrl, shift, space. Does it then proceed to start KDE?