Unable to log on after installing KDE plasma (Xorg)

UntitledGoose · 2024-06-04 10:51:11

Recently installed KDE plasma (xorg) with this tutorial: https://youtu.be/Csc8Y5_YLRE
I forgot to make a user account before so I used chroot through a recovery drive (also set the password)
For some reason when I input the correct password, it shows a blank, POST-like screen (with only one underscore) and sends me back to the login screen
I tried selecting both X11 and Wayland in the drop-down menu at the top left corner but it's the same
Tried reinstalling but didn't work

Awebb · 2024-06-04 11:38:26

The majority here doesn't want to debug youtube videos. Please either completely discard whatever the video told you and use the fine KDE wiki article from scratch or compare the video to the wiki article. I could not resist and clicked on the video. It's four years old. A lot has happened between then and now.

Nikolai5 · 2024-06-04 11:58:30

I watched the video since it was short, and he just goes through the steps in the wiki:
plasma-meta and kde-applications with sddm
and then demonstrates enabling the sddm and NetworkManager services, which is also something you need to do.

So that should just work, see the troubleshooting section of the article Awebb linked above.

When you say you are entering a password, is that in sddm? Please post your full journal here, if its throwing you back out there is likely an error message in there.

cryptearth · 2024-06-04 12:30:30

side note: NM is not a requirement when another network setuo is in place - just be careful to not use multiple neteork managees at the same time.

UntitledGoose · 2024-06-04 13:41:59

Nikolai5 wrote:

When you say you are entering a password, is that in sddm? Please post your full journal here, if its throwing you back out there is likely an error message in there.

Yes, I'm trying to log in with the GUI.
Checking the journal shows: (the messages were either orange or bold)
sddm-gretter-qt6[670]: file:///usr/lib/qt6/qml/SddmComponents/LayoutBox.qml:35:5: QML Connections: Implicitly defined onFoo properties in Connections are deprecated. Use this syntax instead: function onFoo(<arguments>) { ... }
sddm-gretter-qt6[670]: file:///usr/lib/qt6/qml/SddmComponents/ComboBox.qml:105:9: QML Image: Cannot open: file:///usr/lib/qt6/qml/SddmComponents//angle-down.png
sddm-gretter-qt6[670]: file:///usr/lib/qt6/qml/SddmComponents/ComboBox.qml:105:9: QML Image: Cannot open: file:///usr/lib/qt6/qml/SddmComponents//angle-down.png
sddm-gretter-qt6[670]: qrc:/theme/Main.qml:41:5: QML Connections: Implicitly defined onFoo properties in Connections are deprecated. Use this syntax instead: function onFoo(<arguments>) { ... }

# After pressing reboot in the GUI

systemd-logind[530]: The system will reboot now!
systemd-logind[530]: System is rebooting.
sddm-helper[654]: Signal received: SIGTERMhttps://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE
sddm[641]: Error from greeter session: "Process crashed"
sddm[641]: Auth: sddm-helper (--socket /tmp/sddm-auth-[...] --id 2 --start /usr/bin/sddm/greeter-qt6 --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-RARKbw --user sddm --greeter) crashed (exit code 1)
sddm[641]: Error from greeter session: "Process crashed"
sddm[641]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 1

I can't really post my full journal because I can't (or don't know how to) copy paste in chroot

UntitledGoose · 2024-06-04 13:42:31

cryptearth wrote:

side note: NM is not a requirement when another network setuo is in place - just be careful to not use multiple neteork managees at the same time.

I already had iwd configured so I didn't install NM

Nikolai5 · 2024-06-04 14:09:56

Here's how to post text: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … ted_client
I recommend the 0x0.st examples, you share the resulting url with us.

You may not have to use a live ISO to get your logs, you can reproduce the issue, and then use ctrl + alt + F3 (or another number) to switch to that TTY and log in to the command line and get your logs there.
You can switch back to the graphical TTY with either F1 or F2, it tends to run on either of those.

sudo journalctl -b 0 | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Also, what are your system specs? Nvidia GPU?

Last edited by Nikolai5 (2024-06-04 14:10:41)

Funny0facer · 2024-06-04 16:32:51

how did you exactly create the user account?

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Unable to log on after installing KDE plasma (Xorg)

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