Dear maintainers,

first apologize, that I sent this bugreport to "plasmashell". I can not specify, which part of Plasma is responsible. This is the situation:

Since the last update I discovered, that KDE hangs at startup. I can see, that the start begins, the black screen with K-wheel appears and the rotating circle appears. I also can see, that the black background after some seconds becomes  little bit brighter, so it is sure, something is working in the background. Also the hardddrive is working. After some more seconds the harddrive stops working, then nothing more happens.

When I then switch to a console i.e. with CTL + ALT + F2 and then back with ALT + F7, the KDE screen appears. 

It looks like an initialisation problem. IMO it is a KDE specific problem, as other windowmanagers like XFCE, LXDE, LXQT etc. are starting fine.

Another thing, which must not be related to KDE, but came with the last update, too, is that firefox sometimes has problems with creating/showing websites. This also appears only in KDE. However, this must not be related to the first described bug. Just wanted to mention it.

Some hints: 

1. I am running an EEEPC with an Intel I945 graphics chip and xserver-xorg-video-intel driver. Acceleration is active and worked fine for years now.

2. With the last update I got a warning, that some firmware was missing some parts. But this was related to I915 chip. However, maybe also I945 might need these! As I945 is the successor to I915, maybe some structure is based on it.

It is not a big problem, as I can work with the workaround desribed above, but I suppose you want to fix it either.

Please feel free to ask for more information.

Best regards

Hans