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PopeRigby

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Registered: 2019-10-19

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[SOLVED] sddm fails to start

Hi. I've been having a lot of issues with getting Arch to work correctly. This is just one of them. I followed the installation guide (had a ton of problems with that for some reason) and followed the general recommendations up until the part to get the GUI working. I installed xorg group, my NVIDIA display drivers, the KDE Plasma group, and ssdm display manager. When I try to run "sddm", I get all of these errors and it doesn't boot up. Before I was able to boot it up but it just said  "could not sync environment to dbus" and I had to reboot. No idea why it's not doing that now. So how do I fix this so I can get KDE Plasma running?

Last edited by PopeRigby (2019-10-25 17:19:18)

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] sddm fails to start

Why did you install the xorg group instead of only installing the correct driver Xorg#Driver_installation?
What GPU(s) does the system have?

$ lspci | grep -e VGA -e 3D

Which nvidia packages have you installed?
Why did you manually start sddm instead of following SDDM#Installation?

PopeRigby

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Re: [SOLVED] sddm fails to start

Why did you install the xorg group instead of only installing the correct driver Xorg#Driver_installation?

My bad. I actually installed the xorg-server package, not the xorg group. I was also under the impression I was supposed to install xorg-server and my driver, so I installed both.

What GPU(s) does the system have?

$ lspci | grep -e VGA -e 3D

Which nvidia packages have you installed?

I installed the proprietary "nvidia" driver package, because I have a GTX 1060 6GB.

Why did you manually start sddm instead of following SDDM#Installation?

I was attempting to test it.

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] sddm fails to start

To test I would suggest starting the service without enabling it.

# systemctl start sddm.service

As the service is not enabled it will not start on boot.
I asked for the lspci output to see if there was an integrated GPU apart from the nvidia GPU and if the nvidia model was a laptop one which would require a hybrid configuration.

PopeRigby

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Re: [SOLVED] sddm fails to start

To test I would suggest starting the service without enabling it.

# systemctl start sddm.service

Running that command started Plasma. Thank you!

Last edited by PopeRigby (2019-10-25 00:29:27)

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] sddm fails to start

If you enable the service it should then start on boot.