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sree32awda

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Registered: 2021-08-28

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[SOLVED]Unable to login using KDE plasma

Hi I just finished setting up my Arch installation. I installed nivdia graphics drivers followed by sddm and plasma. I also made sure to create a new user with a home directory. When I reboot my system, I am stuck in the login screen. It shows my new users name, but when enter my password and hit enter nothing happens. I also have 2 monitors,if that affects anything

Edit: after using a second tty terminal, viewing journalctl -b -u sddm

Message received from greeter: Login
Reading from "/var/lib/sddm/.desktop"
Invalid session "var/lib/sddm/.desktop"

This is shown many times, probably because I tried logging in many times

Last edited by sree32awda (2021-08-30 07:10:50)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to login using KDE plasma

Reading from "/var/lib/sddm/.desktop"

sounds like a bogus session entry

stat /usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop
pacman -Qikk plasma-workspace

In very doubt, you just have to explicitly select a session at the greeter?

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sree32awda

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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to login using KDE plasma

Running the first command says there is no such file or directory

Running the second command says 'plasma-workspace' not found

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to login using KDE plasma

I installed nivdia graphics drivers followed by sddm and plasma

No, you didn't. Certainly not plasma and that's the problem.

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sree32awda

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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to login using KDE plasma

Yup it seems I did not install plasma. Thanks for the help