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Strider

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Registered: 2009-08-04

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[Solved] Installation of SDDM (Simple Desktop Display Manager)

After installing the package SDDM (not the qt5 version but the qt4 one) and starting the service via systemd, I get a blank screen.
If a try to run sddm-greeter from the terminal, I have the same.

What am I missing ?

I read somewhere that you need to create a user sddm and give it a specific home directory ? Shouldn't this be done by installing the package ?

Last edited by Strider (2014-06-19 20:08:46)

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Scimmia

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Re: [Solved] Installation of SDDM (Simple Desktop Display Manager)

The user isn't an issue in the latest release, which is actually pretty old. The -git packages do set up the user and group in the install script.

We're not going to be able to do much without some kind of logs.

esdaniel

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Re: [Solved] Installation of SDDM (Simple Desktop Display Manager)

What version of mesa are you running? https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=182699

Strider

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Re: [Solved] Installation of SDDM (Simple Desktop Display Manager)

After looking in the systemd log, the problem seems as I said to be with the sddm user. It is indeed not created on my system :

journalctl | grep sddm
jun 18 23:46:29 Megatron sddm[724]: Initializing...
jun 18 23:46:29 Megatron sddm[724]: Starting...
jun 18 23:46:29 Megatron sddm[724]: Adding new display : 0  on vt 1 ...
jun 18 23:46:29 Megatron sddm[724]: Adding cookie to "/var/lib/sddm/:0"
jun 18 23:46:29 Megatron sddm[724]: Failed to find the sddm user. Owner of the auth file will not be changed.
jun 18 23:46:29 Megatron sddm[724]: Display server starting...
jun 18 23:46:29 Megatron sddm[724]: Display server started.
jun 18 23:46:29 Megatron sddm[724]: Socket server starting...
jun 18 23:46:29 Megatron sddm[724]: Socket server started.
jun 18 23:46:29 Megatron sddm[724]: Unable to find the sddm user, cannot continue
jun 18 23:47:08 Megatron sddm[724]: Signal received: SIGTERM
jun 18 23:47:08 Megatron sddm[724]: Socket server stopping...
jun 18 23:47:08 Megatron sddm[724]: Socket server stopped.
jun 18 23:47:08 Megatron sddm[724]: Display server stopping...
jun 18 23:47:08 Megatron sddm[724]: Display server stopped.
jun 18 23:53:42 Megatron sudo[1449]: chris : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/chris ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin//nano /etc/sddm.conf
jun 18 23:55:34 Megatron sudo[1454]: chris : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/chris ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin//nano /etc/sddm.conf
jun 18 23:56:02 Megatron sudo[1458]: chris : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/chris ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin//nano /etc/sddm.conf
jun 18 23:56:29 Megatron sudo[1460]: chris : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/chris ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin//sddm-greeter
jun 18 23:59:28 Megatron sudo[1509]: chris : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/chris ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin//cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service
jun 19 00:30:11 Megatron sudo[3902]: chris : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/chris ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin//pacman -R sddm-git
jun 19 00:31:47 Megatron sudo[5270]: chris : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/tmp/packerbuild-1003/sddm/sddm ; USER=root ; COMMAND=validate
jun 19 00:31:47 Megatron sudo[5271]: chris : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/tmp/packerbuild-1003/sddm/sddm ; USER=root ; COMMAND=list /usr/sbin//pacman -U sddm-0.1.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
jun 19 00:31:47 Megatron sudo[5272]: chris : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/tmp/packerbuild-1003/sddm/sddm ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin//pacman -U sddm-0.1.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

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libernux

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Registered: 2009-09-29

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Re: [Solved] Installation of SDDM (Simple Desktop Display Manager)

I have recently (2014-06-18 16:31) updated the package sddm-git from AUR to create this user.
If your pkgbuild is from before then you have to get the new version from AUR.
If you still have problems let me now.

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Strider

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Re: [Solved] Installation of SDDM (Simple Desktop Display Manager)

libernux, indeed the AUR package does create the user and group. However I found out that I installed a package sddm-git present in the lxqt-git repository that I'm using. This binary package was built from before your recent change ... Building back the package from AUR solved the problem.

Last edited by Strider (2014-06-19 20:11:38)

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libernux

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Re: [Solved] Installation of SDDM (Simple Desktop Display Manager)

I already notified the owner of the lxqt-git repository yesterday.
It is just a matter of time before he picks this up.

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