| Summary: | Cannot log in from SDDM login screen after upgrade to Mga8 | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | w unruh <unruh> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | major | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | davidwhodgins, lewyssmith, zen25000 |
| Version: | 8 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Source RPM: | sddm? | CVE: | |
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Description
w unruh
2022-04-13 00:54:02 CEST
Is this the same as bug 27601 ? If so, it's in the errata https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_8_Errata#Desktops CC:
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davidwhodgins No, it does not seem to be the same bug. In my case nothing whatsoever happens. I still have the sddm-greeting page displayed, with my name, the spots for the password, Plasma or XFCE as the dm. Ie, hitting return is as if I had never done anything Just the same screen as before I hit return. And the machine has a definite hostname all the time (info). I upgraded three other machines as well and all cannot be logged into from the SDDM-greeter. One of them keeps flashing as I move the mouse. The other two also just sit there once I enter the username and password. Did you try changing the SDDM theme? No. Any suggestions? Since mga-coffee is based on maldives, that is probably not the best to try first. I presume all I do is change the Current line in /etc/sddm.conf file. > Plasma or XFCE as the dm
You probably meant 'as the [target] desktop'. SDDM & lightDM are display managers, for the login.
Although it is not the proper solution, is there any reason not to install & change to (say) lightDM, at least to be able to login (assuming it works!)...
You can do this from a virtual console, as root:
# urpmi lightdm
# drakdm
which enables you to swap between them at will; normally requires a reboot to take effect.
If this persists, I will try SDDM to compare journals.CC:
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lewyssmith Not sure if this will help to narrow down the problem but I experienced the same symptoms in cauldron when several plasma packages were inadvertently pushed to core rather than updates_testing recently. I use a common home folder for Mageia8 and Cauldron on my system. When the above packages were installed, sddm stopped working for my regular user in both Mga8 and Cauldron with the same symptoms as in this bug. By using LXDM in Mga8 I was able to log in and use it normally with plasma. When the new packages were finally released for Cauldron plasma and it was fully updated, sddm worked fine and also reverting to sddm in Mga8 also worked as before the problem. So it seems that something broke in the user home settings which caused the sddm issue. You could confirm this by creating a new user and testing sddm to log in as that user. CC:
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zen25000 @Bill Is this still an issue? No it has gone away By this time I am not even sure which machine this was on (I have at least 4 of them). So sddm does seem to be working now. 2 Thanks. Status:
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RESOLVED |