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Henonicks

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Registered: 2026-05-15

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[SOLVED] SDDM frozen until restart

Hi, I installed Arch with KDE Plasma (meta), open-source NVIDIA drivers and sddm as the greeter. Every time I boot this up I have a chance to be greeted by the frozen SDDM greeter. The text cursor in the password field isn't blinking and keyboard inputs achieve nothing. I can move my mouse pointer around but no buttons on the screen respond. A band-aid fix to this is to enter the TTY with Ctrl+Alt+F3, log in and restart the sddm service with `systemctl restart sddm`. How can I make the boot process less painful?

If, when this occurs, I enter the TTY and check the status with `systemctl status sddm`, this is the output: https://pastebin.com/FTBSxQgr
I don't know what other output you might need to help me so let me know.

Last edited by Henonicks (2026-06-30 09:50:31)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] SDDM frozen until restart

A band-aid fix to this is to enter the TTY with Ctrl+Alt+F3, log in and restart the sddm service with `systemctl restart sddm`

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p2280735 - a crutch

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Henonicks

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Registered: 2026-05-15

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Re: [SOLVED] SDDM frozen until restart

I see. Thanks, this worked