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iusearchbtw69

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Registered: 2025-02-14

Posts: 3

Black screen with a cursor(SDDM)

I am using Hyde with Hyprland on Arch Linux. However, whenever I boot up, I get a black screen with a cursor. To log in, I have to switch to a TTY manually and start Hyprland by typing Hyprland.

I suspect this is an issue with SDDM. When I run sudo sddm, I get the following error:
Pastebin link: https://pastebin.com/MwSwb54P

Please help me troubleshoot this issue. Let me know if you need more logs.

more logs :

1.  journalctl -u sddm | grep -i pam

https://pastebin.com/CTLwj3WB

2. journalctl -xe | grep -i hyprland
https://pastebin.com/526kSeWa

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,175

Re: Black screen with a cursor(SDDM)

Did you try to configure your SDDM pam files for something? What do you get from

sudo pacman -Qkk sddm

?

iusearchbtw69

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Registered: 2025-02-14

Posts: 3

Re: Black screen with a cursor(SDDM)

No i dont think i did, but i changed few Graphic settings of nvidia , as it was stuttering a lot
i was following this thread for that

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=268528

❯ sudo pacman -Qkk sddm
sddm: 251 total files, 0 altered files

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,175

Re: Black screen with a cursor(SDDM)

A wait the second journal grep shows the issue. hyprland is coredumping, do you get actual info from that: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Core_d … _core_dump

Maybe post a full ungrepped journal

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

Last edited by V1del (2025-02-15 15:07:04)