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Nima0908

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Registered: 2024-06-06

Posts: 33

[Solved] Sddm not starting

Hello.
After successfully installing Arch Linux on my PC i whanted to install a de so i can actually use it. I chose hyprland and installed it. But now after rebooting, i waited for like 5 min but nothing showed up in tty2. So i switched into tty3 and checked the status of sddm with systemctl status sddm because i was suspecting it. There i saw following:

sddm[4881: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 127
sddm[488]: Greeter stopped. SDDM: :Auth: :HelperExitStatus (127)

Does somebody know how to fix this? I also tried going into Hyprland directly via tty3 and it worked perfectly fine.

Last edited by Nima0908 (2024-06-13 14:17:56)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,307

Re: [Solved] Sddm not starting

This lacks a bunch of context, post the full unaltered

sudo journalctl -b

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

Did you configure a SDDM theme? Which?

Last edited by V1del (2024-06-11 12:29:35)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 59,084

Re: [Solved] Sddm not starting

Pattern fits journal in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p2176755

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Nima0908

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Registered: 2024-06-06

Posts: 33

Re: [Solved] Sddm not starting

Solved. I was missing some configuration for my Nvidia 4060

Shansonye

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Registered: 2024-10-16

Posts: 1

Re: [Solved] Sddm not starting

Hi, I hope 4 month is not enough for ”necrobumping”. But is it possible to share what was this configuration?
I have the same issue with sddm-helper with properly installed drivers and no errors.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 59,084

Re: [Solved] Sddm not starting

You're probably lacking some Qt5 dependencies if your SDDM theme isn't breeze.
See eg. the dependencies in https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sddm-sugar-candy-git

Edit: if this only just happened you might however be facing what's likely a Qt 6.8 bug, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=300275

Last edited by seth (2024-10-16 05:56:38)

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