Description of problem: When I try to log in to the sddm login screen, all that happens is that the sddm login screen freezes. The mouse works, but I can do nothing with it. None of the bottons work and the system does not log in If I do alt-ctrl-Bksp twice it reloads and I can again enter the username and password but again it freezes with that user. I can do alt-ctrl-F2 and login to the terminal and run startx -- :1 and the Plasma screen comes up ok. But sddm login is a disaster. There are no error messages (except the usual EE in /var/log/Xlog.0 that /var/run/sddm/{....} (the dots are a ong list of random characters) does not exist, when it clearly does exist But on users who can log in that same error message is in the log when they manage to log on. I have no idea what is freezing in sddm. But as it stands now, the sddm login screen is useless for me. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sddm-0.18.1-3.mga7 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
You are having strange problems unique to yourself. Can you say a little about your system. To carry on (hopefully), install another display manager like lightdm, then in a Ctrl/Alt/Fn console, login as root, and do: # drakdm Change to the other display manager. Unfortunately, you often have to re-boot for the change to take effect. See whether that at least enables you to log in normally. If it does, try changing back to SDDM to see whether the original problem returns.
CC: (none) => lewyssmithSource RPM: sddm? => sddm-0.18.1-3.mga7.src.rpm
@ reporter, Are you still affected by this strange bug? Does procedure above help you? Regards,
CC: (none) => ouaurelien
No idea. Covid happened. I could get into X by logging in to a terminal and then running startx. But I have not been able to get back at my work computer-- university shut down.
This bug report will stay opened to vive some further feedbacks when it will be possible. Bug to unconfirmed, needinfo. Suggest: performing above (Comment #2), or try reinstall/upgrade with classic Installer from 7.1 ISO and using online repos. If asked for /etc/sddm.conf or files in /etc/sddm.d/, please use .rpmnew file as it will prevent misconfiguration.
Status: NEW => UNCONFIRMEDEver confirmed: 1 => 0
This bug report will stay opened until some further feedbacks when it will be possible. Bug to unconfirmed, needinfo. Suggest: performing above (Comment #2), or try reinstall/upgrade with classic Installer from 7.1 ISO and using online repos. If asked for /etc/sddm.conf or files in /etc/sddm.d/, please use .rpmnew file as it will prevent misconfiguration.
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Severity: critical => normal
Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of our distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information. Closing as OLD.
Status: UNCONFIRMED => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => OLD