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I use KDE on Debian. I have not encountered this, nor can I think of a reason why showkey would break a user's desktop session.
If the GUI login screen is still visible when it hangs, I suppose sddm might be having trouble. To investigate, I would run
journalctl -f
in a text console, and maybetail -F /var/log/Xorg.0.log
* in another, while attempting a GUI login. When it hangs, I would switch back to the text consoles and see if the most recent log messages hint at what's hanging.*(Or whichever log file corresponds to the new X session, assuming you're using Xorg instead of Wayland.)
Could the fingerprint reader be causing the problem on the main account?
Thanks. I'll check out disabling the fingerprint reader and see if that makes a difference. Will do those investigations you've suggest too. But at this point it's looking like moving my user data and starting again on a new login.
Another thought: Is it possible that your original user account (which hangs) is trying to log in to an X session while the new one (which works) is using a Wayland session, or vice-versa? That might explain the difference in behavior if only one of the two session types is broken.
Good luck!
Yes, I'd considered that too. Alas, not the case