A bug in ksmserver caused a hang when attempting to load a broken autostart file. This affects palsma-workspace 5.9.5 tar. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379254 The problem code has been reverted and I've uploaded a 5.9.5.1 tar for plasma-workspace https://www.kde.org/info/plasma-5.9.5.php Jonathan