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burny02

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Registered: 2021-07-01

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[SOLVED] SDDM problems

Hi;

I've been using emptty to login my laptop for quite a while now, without issues

Recently; I've given my kids their own logins and have attempted to switch to sddm

When enabling and booting it appears to stall on the line 'Reached target Graphical Interface'

The status of sddm is not helpful, and journalctl gives me really only this info

sddm.service: start request repeated too quickly
sddm service: failed with result 'core-dump'

I am one of these annoying optimus laptops - Though I should be booting only into intel drivers(i915) - I can see the driver is loaded and kms is in mkinitcpio config

I never had any issues with emptty, and 'startx' does throw some screens up

And help appreciated

Last edited by burny02 (2024-10-26 15:31:24)

matesz

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Re: [SOLVED] SDDM problems

Have you tried force-revert SDDM to some default one?

go to console (ctrl+alt+F4)

open

nano /etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf

and set

[Theme]
Current=Breeze

*Other settings can be removed

No guarantee that it will help, but it won't make things worse

burny02

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Re: [SOLVED] SDDM problems

That folder doesn't even exist

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] SDDM problems

The status of sddm is not helpful, and journalctl gives me really only this info
sddm.service: start request repeated too quickly
sddm service: failed with result 'core-dump'

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Core_d … _core_dump

That folder doesn't even exist

So what? Create it.
The idea is to override the global settings, you can also check /etc/sddm.conf and adjust the theme there.
Still post the coredump and the system journal covering a crash if you can't make any sense out of it as to what is failing where.

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

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V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] SDDM problems

Which one? does /etc/sddm.conf.d not exist or just the kde_settings file? The old full config is otherwise placed under /etc/sddm.conf and depending on which theme you're using you might also need to install the opt dep qt5-declarative.

FF5eck...

Last edited by V1del (2024-10-26 14:01:50)

burny02

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Re: [SOLVED] SDDM problems

There is neither sddm.conf or sddm.conf.d in etc

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] SDDM problems

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

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burny02

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Re: [SOLVED] SDDM problems

https://0x0.st/XU41.txt

burny02

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Re: [SOLVED] SDDM problems

Hm - Is it this line?

Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (6.7.3) with this library (6.7.2)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] SDDM problems

Yes. Don't run partial updates.

pacman -Syu

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burny02

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Re: [SOLVED] SDDM problems

As far as I know, I haven't

I update very infrequently. Doing the whole thing now

Really appreciate the help

Last edited by burny02 (2024-10-26 15:15:09)

burny02

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Re: [SOLVED] SDDM problems

That sorted it! Much appreciated

I'll update the title

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] SDDM problems

Partial upgrades are not supported in general, always do a full system update in the future.