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jernst

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From: Silicon Valley

Registered: 2014-03-04

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Solved: "sddm-greeter closed unexpectedly"

KDE with plasma running on VirtualBox.

Worked fine, until a reboot. I did a package update something like yesterday.

VM boots, but instead of the login dialog it shows a dialog with the above error message. It also says Illegal Instruction. (Hm!!)

I booted into systemd.unit=multi-user.target, pacman -Syu and re-installed sddm. Same result.

Update 1: Installed sddm 0.11.0-3 from seblu.net. Same result. Perhaps it isn't sddm's fault. But whose would it be?
Update 2: Journal has nothing interesting to say beyond the above.

Last edited by jernst (2015-09-29 22:18:35)

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Re: Solved: "sddm-greeter closed unexpectedly"

What processor have you got? If it's an intel chip, are you loading the microcode updates?

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jernst

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From: Silicon Valley

Registered: 2014-03-04

Posts: 307

Re: Solved: "sddm-greeter closed unexpectedly"

This is a MacBook Pro with an i7-3820QM at 2.7GHz (I believe) running OSX, with Arch running in VirtualBox. Presumably I'd have to get microcode updates from Apple?

But I tried anyway: installed intel-ucode, updated grub, rebooted. Same result.

jernst

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From: Silicon Valley

Registered: 2014-03-04

Posts: 307

Re: Solved: "sddm-greeter closed unexpectedly"

Upgrading from the latest VirtualBox 4 to latest VirtualBox 5 fixed it!!!

Last edited by jernst (2015-09-29 22:18:24)