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alanmies

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From: Manchester, Finland

Registered: 2004-12-04

Posts: 23

[SOLVED, probably] SDDM issue on a fresh install

I just installed Arch on a HP Elitebook 840 G3 - it went surprisingly painlessly (for all the flack systemd gets, deservedly or not, setting up UEFI with systemd-boot was pleasantly straightforward), but I've a small problem with SDDM. It seems most of the time (but not always) after a reboot SDDM just gives a black screen. It doesn't hang the laptop, I'm able to change into another virtual console and stop/start SDDM, then I'm able to login to KDE just fine. And granted, rebooting is not something I do frequently, so this is more of a nuicanse, but any ideas what could be causing this? FWIW this is the output of "systemctl status sddm" when I get a black screen:

* sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sat 2016-10-29 16:04:23 EEST; 32s ago
     Docs: man:sddm(1)
           man:sddm.conf(5)
 Main PID: 279 (sddm)
    Tasks: 4 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/sddm.service
           |-279 /usr/bin/sddm
           `-284 /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/sddm/{d90ec1f2-7ec2-4c48-bf3b-08da75b0c
dfc} -background none -noreset -displayfd 18 vt1

Oct 29 16:04:25 peura sddm[279]: Socket server starting...
Oct 29 16:04:25 peura sddm[279]: Socket server started.
Oct 29 16:04:25 peura sddm[279]: Greeter starting...
Oct 29 16:04:25 peura sddm[279]: Adding cookie to "/var/run/sddm/{d90ec1f2-7ec2-4c48-bf3b-08da75b0cdfc}"
Oct 29 16:04:25 peura sddm-helper[342]: [PAM] Starting...
Oct 29 16:04:25 peura sddm-helper[342]: [PAM] Authenticating...
Oct 29 16:04:25 peura sddm-helper[342]: [PAM] returning.
Oct 29 16:04:25 peura sddm-helper[342]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm by (uid=0)
Oct 29 16:04:25 peura sddm[279]: Greeter session started successfully
Oct 29 16:04:26 peura sddm[279]: Message received from greeter: Connect

EDIT: after upgrading to the most recent version of xf86-video-intel it seems the problem goes away, perhaps it was just a glitch in the driver.

Last edited by alanmies (2016-10-31 08:56:50)