Debian sddm not starting Subject: Bug#846877: plasma-desktop: Sddm can not start kde. wants/ or . This does not happen when using LightDM or when running a X11 KDE is an international community creating free and open source software. But when trying to GPU passthrough, Debian booted into command mode only (it did show up on the monitor connected to the RX580 card so GPU passthrough was successful). [Autologin] User=USERNAME Session=DENAME. When I enable the sddm. Mar 26, 2017 · I just run synaptic from it's menu entry, and give it my root password when asked. Oct 17, 2018 · I use OpenBox with the xcompmgr compositor started from xdm without issue in Debian 10. I was not talking about the accelerometer, but the Modeline just after; I was not able to get them on subsequent boots, but the time logged corresponds to what I have to wait to see SDDM. As soon as I install the Nvidia driver and boot up the computer, sddm does not start, but only a black screen with a functional mouse curser appears. However, if I shutdown SDDM, start X from my user, export display and run startkde, I can use KDE as usual. 0-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Installed task-lxqt-desktop. org, laurent. Sep 13, 2020 · Finally found the solution for this problem, I think the sddm display manager is not working fine and thats's why I am booting into CLI. All the DE's I have, only gdm3 is working; all the other (including my favorite "trinity-tdm") the screen goes black and the monitor displays the message "out of reach". Copy sent to antdev66@gmail. Visit our main page to know more: https://kde. By default, Void runs getty for tty[1-6], so Xorg (sddm) starts on tty7. Feb 08 14:31:53 D20 systemd[1]: gdm. Again I'm not a very experienced user of arch, so I don't really understand what this could point to. Then kde boots straight to my user, without seeing the signin password screen. sudo aptitude install xserver-xorg sddm -R Everything works at this point, after reboot SDDM shows up. Or, you can remove sddm and not-install any other display manager and use the built-in systemd for auto starting and autologin. org>: New Bug report received and forwarded. I use greetd and ReGreet as my display manager. Dec 14, 2018 · To change the default display manager on Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, elementary OS and any Debian or Ubuntu-based Linux distribution we'll use dpkg-reconfigure, a tool provided by debconf, which can be used to reconfigure an already installed package by asking the configuration questions, much like when the package was first installed. conf from /etc/X11. Installation was flawless, but when I booted the new system by the first time, it went bios -> grub -> systemd logs (no plymouth), and then a blank screen with a steady cursor on the corner. Please visit https://discuss. Mar 5, 2019 · Tour Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Mar 23, 2016 · Hi miku, thanks for the response. 2. Here are the steps I'm performing:. Jun 12, 2023 · On a lot of distros with KDE Plasma 5. d/. requires/ directory. org, Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists. So I can not even log in properly. 0-26 - gets stuck Jul 18, 2019 · Reported by: Sebastien CHAVAUX <seb95. sudo aptitude install plasma-desktop plasma-workspace kde-runtime kwin-x11 -R Today I installed Debian Testing from a netinstall with KDE Plasma, but when I boot the system it dirige me to virtual console without UI. com > Jun 8, 2018 · Hello dear Debian Community! I am trying to install a minimal KDE desktop on a clean, terminal-only netinstall Debian Sid installation. com> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:27:02 UTC. Aug 21, 2018 · Now I'm pretty sure it is a Xorg issue since systemd starts SDDM at the end of the boot, after stopping plymouth. After some time, SDDM re-appears. And its not problem with bios settings. Currently SDDM service can't start on Fedora 40 (Rawhide) when the config override to forc Debian Bug report logs - #846877 plasma-desktop: Sddm can not start kde. 18. It will also not enable the service so that it will start on boot. I get a cursor and I can open a terminal for example. Jul 12, 2008 · On recommendation of @sunrat I am starting a new thread as my problem might not be related. desktop Relogin=false USERNAME must be replaced with the name of the user to be logged in. Edit: Thanks for correcting seems sddm works nowadays Jun 9, 2017 · That will start SDDM not KDE. SDDM stands for Simple Desktop Display Manager. On KDE Neon after installing some packages SDDM stopped to start up on boot, instead I've got text… I get sent to TTY4 where I need to type my login and password, then "sudo systemctl start sddm" my password again to authorise sudo. Journalctl log: journalctl -xp 3 | grep sddm sddm[362]: Failed to read display number from pipe sddm[362]: Could not start Display server on vt 1 Trying to run SDD Dec 22, 2022 · All was working fine, until after few days I was not able to got into Plasma. Nov 5, 2020 · Feb 09 12:05:35 sidpad sddm[2388]: Attempt 1 starting the Display server on vt 1 failed Feb 09 12:05:37 sidpad sddm[2388]: Tried to start Xorg before previous instance exited Feb 09 12:05:37 sidpad sddm[2388]: Attempt 2 starting the Display server on vt 1 failed Feb 09 12:05:39 sidpad sddm[2388]: Tried to start Xorg before previous instance The GPU passthrough itself should be OK, as Debian booted into command mode which showed up on the monitor connected to the RX580 card. My sddm. From : Laurent Debian < laurent. Nov 16, 2015 · When I enable sddm. The solution is easy: Remove [X11] section in any sddm conf file if you're going to stick with Wayland. SDDM is a display manager and an alternative to using startx / xinit that use . Not sure what changed (I was installing some new stuff that I use and doing upgrades) but all was working fine for at least few days. target, then the machine usually boots to a GUI login without any separate need to run a command to bring up a display manager such as gdm or gdm3. In the meantime, it should work if you do the install manually with setting the symlink: Put this stanza in /etc/sddm. But then if I Debian Bug report logs - #846877 plasma-desktop: Sddm can not start kde. After # systemctl restart sddm it works totally fine but at the system boot time it throws the fo Oct 18, 2024 · The issue has only started manifesting recently, does not happen on each wakeup, sometimes I can read a systray notification from KWin window manager saying "Desktop effects were restarted due to a graphics reset", I was unable to find anything relevant in `/var/log`; even more recently booting the latest vmlinuz image - 6. I am a beginner at linux (and asking questions) I could not find this problem replicated anywhere, please help me or at least clarify any ways I can improve this question. Jul 10, 2016 · In fact I tried to start SDDM with the "SDDM" command. Update 1: Running SDDM from console creates no logs on the console. d/autologin or in another configuration file in /etc/sddm. The problem is that I can only get a CLI to work if i use nomodeset with grub and then SDDM just hangs, or KDE will just crash if i try to launch from the CLI. This script receives the value of the "Exec" setting in the ". The SDDM of this Debian VM launched normally when not trying to passthrough the RX580 card. Now I have installed neon on ssd and it is just working. Here the graphical environment no longer loaded and I proceeded to execute the . If I type sddm on tty the machine freezes. desktop" file of the selected session and runs it. org ----- This is not a technical support forum. Feb 27, 2018 · I installed Debian Sid in Virtual Box and wanted to use minimal Plasma on it. einval. " Then in desperation I ran "apt install gdm3" and that actually now "worked" as it gave me the option to select either lightdm or gdm for my display manager--I chose "gdm" and rebooted . It doesn't seem to be an issue of sddm though. Aug 27, 2022 · I have reinstalled debian 11. Things I've already tried: removing nvidia-optimus-qt and bbswitcher, reinstalling nvidia drivers, adding a delay to sddm starting incase the problem was that it was starting before the nvidia drivers, and removing the xorg. Configuration loads all files in the configuration directories followed by the configuration file in the order listed below with the latter having highest precedence. service" would have the same result without being permanent. Today I installed Debian Testing from a netinstall with KDE Plasma, but when I boot the system it dirige me to virtual console without UI. I remove Weston and installed the Xorg Wayland server: # pacman -Rns weston # pacman -S xorg-server-xwayland. Severity: important. . SDDM not starting on a fresh Buster install I just got Debian 10 on an acer netbook, and I selected KDE as the desktop environment. 0-26 - gets stuck Aug 12, 2015 · SDDM disappears and looks like login is starting. Systemctl shows that the service is running. Containers work and stops without issues, services too. filder@web. The only solution I have found from here was to reinstall Arch. It was specifically created for the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment. NAME¶. Same issue with lightdm. From: Kevin Williams <ktwilliams@pittstate. Edit: Jun 27, 2024 · Debian Bug report logs - #846877 plasma-desktop: Sddm can not start kde. ----- This is not a bug tracker. Edit: Aug 21, 2018 · Now I'm pretty sure it is a Xorg issue since systemd starts SDDM at the end of the boot, after stopping plymouth. 4 on ssd, booting halts after grub but before gui Then I reInstalled debian 11. I switched to a TTY by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F6 and logged into the console. It's a compatibility bug with the newer kernel. Any help is appreciated. service: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies. [] [X11] section: [] SessionCommand= Path of script to execute when starting the user session. Beyond KDE support, some advantages of SDDM include Wayland compatibility, theming and other customization. Other logs (syslog Jun 7, 2018 · This means they are not meant to be enabled using systemctl. Possible reasons for having this kind of units are: 1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's . In journalctl when I grep there are a lot of errors but not sure what to look for. Sep 10, 2010 · This sub-forum is the dedicated area for the ongoing Unstable / Testing releases of Debian. 5 KDE Frameworks Your message dated Fri, 5 Jul 2019 15:49:12 +0100 with message-id <20190705144912. Nov 28, 2023 · Since Fedora 38 SDDM had been configured to use Wayland mode by default, For Fedora 40 there's an approved plan to drop X11 session on KDE Plasma. 1. org for user support. delay while waiting for systemd to stop Simple Desktop Display Manager. But then if I Aug 29, 2024 · I picked up one of those generic 8" micro laptops (Amazon Link) and after a new install with KDE plasma, grub will display and then I get a blank screen. Restarting sddm service from terminal launches sddm successfully, but then at the next reboot, it goes back to tty1. service" and everything seems ok, so don't know what I can do Any idea? Thanks in advance. I'm using xorg as my display server. If this file is not available, default values are used. Either I had to enter the password in SSDM (where I have auto-authentication enabled) or I had to go to CLI (ctrl + F2) and give the command sudo systemctl start sddm. Not Aug 28, 2018 · Hello, in the new Kernel Version 4. Default value is "/etc/sddm/Xsession". I found a lot of solutions for not working sddm but none of them helped. service and start sddm, on a fresh boot I get the issue. Then, I'm not quite sure if I quite followed you in the "choose Plasma5 wayland in SDDM login" part. 19, sddm can't start the graphical interface. Bug#931389: LXQt: SDDM does not start. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Remove sddm and Install lightdm instead. 0-7-amd64 it is just fine. After this I disabled sddm with systemctl disable sddm and restarted the system. When I start to type the name in then hit tab to autocomplete, it autocompletes to synaptic-pkexec, so pkexec is being used to run it as another user, which causes a dialog to pop up asking for your root or user password, depending if you use sudo or not. 27 if you have a 4K UHD monitor with 3840x2160 display using 200% scaling, you can apply this scaling to your SDDM login screen by using the System Settings -> Startup and Shutdown -> Login Screen (SDDM) -> Apply Plasma Settings to make your login screen's font more like the fonts on your normal desktop. Instead it goes to terminal at tty1. Problem started recently, and the only major thing I did is installed docker, I saw similar problem, there for some reason containers couldn't stop, but it's not the case here. Login on tty2 and typing there also starts sddm with a bit of delay. which found huge journal files in /var/log/journal Logs should never be allowed to fill up the whole /var or /, either by separating /var/log, using quota or configuring the loggin facilities. sddm. I enabled SDDM and everything worked great. Dec 20, 2024 · Dec 20 07:21:09 mosscap sddm[1071]: Failed to read display number from pipe Dec 20 07:21:09 mosscap sddm[1071]: Display server stopping Dec 20 07:21:09 mosscap sddm[1071]: Attempt 3 starting the Display server on vt 2 failed Dec 20 07:21:09 mosscap sddm[1071]: Could not start Display server on vt 2 Dec 20 07:23:25 mosscap systemd[1 Jan 29, 2021 · Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists. With the old kernel Version 4. GE21742@tack. service I am greeted with a black screen and no way to escape to an other virtual terminal. From: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval. de>: Extra info received and forwarded to list. Currently SDDM service can't start on Fedora 40 (Rawhide) when the config override to forc Hi! I've been building a virtual machine with risingprism guide. Aug 26, 2018 · k829king wrote: 2022-02-28 12:43 could not write to the /var partition . debian@gmail. So, to summarize, I made some progress and am able to consistently manually get the gui login with "sudo sddm", but still won't start automatically on boot Edit: Just running sddm without root gives errors "DAEMON: failed to write xauth file" and "DAEMON: could not start display server on vt7". Advanced, or Experienced User support only. 4 oo hdd, Same thing With smartctl I find no errors on the ssd, I runmore then 11500 hours and uses 6% of the lifespan. conf file: Jul 22, 2024 · Path of script to execute when starting the user session. If I try SDDM autologin with my current user, I just get a black screen with a movable mouse pointer. May 15, 2012 · SDDM just gets stucks after I input my password and does nothing. 0-1 Sep 17, 2017 · Debian stretch is the current stable release, Debian testing (buster) is a different release, not really a release at all , since it is testing, Debian Buster has not yet been released. EDIT: Problem was caused by typo in fstab file. 0-8-amd64 sddm won't start. org to report bugs. After the update, SDDM stopped working — it wouldn’t start any session. I am not sure what would be easier, try to remove the packages that are for testing, or re-install, or upgrade the whole thing to Debian Testing. org, kde/plasma does not start under wayland (solved) Date: the sddm-greeter's X server runs as user sddm Gdm can start, but after logging in and selecting either x11 or wayland, the result is a black screen (I have both xorg and plasma-wayland-session installed). I wonder if you are having compositor issues with sddm starting Wayland? OpenBox will not composite with Wayland. After I input my password, nothing would happen and I would see frozen SDDM screen. So the most interesting part is that on boot the screen freezes at the output of fsck. Looks like sddm has gone kaput. If systemctl enable sddm the machine freezes at boot and I can't access tty. xinintrc. Posted by u/Superjolly002 - 2 votes and 12 comments Nov 13, 2024 · Acknowledgement sent to Michael Biebl <biebl@debian. com> Bug#931389: LXQt: SDDM does not start. Oct 24, 2023 · I also switched to the console and stopped sddm, started sddm again, got login screen on which I was able to switch to Plasma(X11) but after login I got blank screen again. May 4, 2020 · kstart5 plasmashell gave the following error: "qt. xcb: could not connect to display qt. d Local configuration directory /etc/sddm. The logs doesn't show anything worthy. Gefore 1070 (desktop, not mobile) Debian Apr 1, 2024 · SUMMARY When issuing a shutdown or restart from within a Plasma Wayland session, there is a 1 min. 130. When reboot Debian no login screen appears. I have to switch to tty3 or tty4,… to log in and startx running startx Jul 13, 2023 · I installed (graphical installation, selecting xfce) Debian 12 on Hyper-V Gen1 VM within Windows 10. 30 sec. Starting LSB: X Display manager for KDE Started LSB: X Display manager for KDE. it had filled up. The problem was when I don't passthrough the RX580, the Debian VM boots normally into SDDM and login to KDE Desktop successfully. 9. My exact steps: 1. Debian GNU/Linux 11. Apr 1, 2024 · In my Debian 10, says "unable to open display: permission denied" and in my Debian 12, I haven't found the reason, yet. Feb 8, 2022 · Feb 08 14:31:53 D20 systemd[1]: Failed to start GNOME Display Manager. conf or in /etc/sddm. 20. service -- Logs begin at Tue 2017-07-18 21:38:33 CEST, end at Sat 2017-10-14 08:54:52 CEST. 2. I also have the black screen problem (it's also the case with LightDM), and I'm on an older install that upgraded. Installing Old School XDM Try launch from tty, when you get Hyprland configure remove all kde stuff including sddm. So, I just have to install another display manager which should work with my laptop hardware. 6. 13. conf Local configuration file for compatibility DESCRIPTION This file configures various parameters of the sddm display manager sddm(1). This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Sddm won't even start. It didn't bother me until today where there was an update to SDDM and other packages. It's working great but I have a problem with sddm when running a Wayland session. This is what I have after booting Debian GNU/LINUX: Few lines higher there was "Watchdog hardware is disabled". For various reasons, I reinstalled Arch - zapped my drive and completely started from scratch - however, when I reinstalled the Plasma group and enabled SDDM it now hangs on boot. Use apt to get SDDM added onto your Debian system: sudo apt install sddm . " Jan 29, 2021 · Acknowledgement sent to Dennis Filder <d. If I check the status of kdm with systemctl, it says it's started (existed) but it didn't even blink. com> and subject line Re: Bug#931389: LXQt: SDDM does not start has caused the Debian Bug report #931389, regarding LXQt: SDDM does not start to be marked as done. kde. conf - sddm display manager configuration. Feb 14, 2020 · I just updated debian (testing). Not If the sddm unit file lacks an Install section I would definitely count that as a bug and report it to Debian, as you are supposed to when running Debian Testing. From there, I ran startplasma-wayland, and my Plasma session Mar 31, 2021 · Manually starting X (via sddm) after the installation is finished also works fine and the system is running as expected. sddm also leans toward Qt while OpenBox is strictly gtk. Unfortunately SDDM doesn't start at all with Plasma installed. Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists. scou@gmail. I checked and SDDM is installed, the systemd service is enabled and running, and the xorg logs say nothing. sddm accommodates X11 and or Wayland while OpenBox is strictly X11. plugin: could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. Hi! I've been building a virtual machine with risingprism guide. Mar 29 17:04:20 arch sddm[17365]: Attempt 1 starting the Display server on vt 2 failed. Hyprland wiki say that SDDM dosent work. Jun 3, 2022 · After a recent update sddm starts with a black screen. It takes quite a few time before session actually starts, and then kicked back to SDDM after a few seconds. Dec 3, 2020 · After updating to version 0. No problems at all. I end up on the CLI. conf. Finally I did systemctl enable sddm and restarted once again. Nov 8, 2016 · Package: sddm Version: 0. Make sure you have installed a desktop environment as well (XFCE). Dec 30, 2022 · Re: [Software] gdm doen't start on Debian 11 Post by zhenyu » 2022-12-31 08:10 NorthEast wrote: 2022-12-31 04:49 If the systemctl default is set to graphical. Oct 27, 2016 · Now, SDDM service no longer runs at boot. Copy sent to zeha@debian. Found in version sddm/0. I had to add a killall kwin_wayland on the startup script but it comes back up. If I chroot into my system, disable the service, and then systemctl start SDDM. I assumed that the command "systemctl start sddm. Followed by 2 more attempts that also fail, then followed by Could not start Display server on vt 2. Feb 24, 2023 · I have recently reinstalled Fedora 37 KDE spin due to many issues when installing the proprietary Nvidia driver. 0 KDE Plasma Version: 5. I tried typing "systemctl status sddm. SYNOPSIS¶. Copy sent to debianbug@brinin. Google systemd autologin, it's easy stuff. Also, running startx at terminal launches sddm correctly. Apr 2, 2022 · I found that the config file created by KDE, kde_settings, contains [X11] section which makes SDDM always tries to start Xorg and fails. Dec 27, 2023 · Adding SDDM. May 13, 2020 · Unfortunately, sddm isn't starting after selecting the Debian GNU/Linux option from the GNU GRUB menu. com, Subject: plasma-desktop: Sddm can not start kde. qpa. Dec 30, 2017 · SDDM responded in different ways. com > Debian Bug report logs - #846877 plasma-desktop: Sddm can not start kde. xdg-desktop-kde is not compatible with hyprland unsitalled and install the hyprland one. From : laurent B < laurent. debian. Oct 17, 2024 · The issue has only started manifesting recently, does not happen on each wakeup, sometimes I can read a systray notification from KWin window manager saying "Desktop effects were restarted due to a graphics reset", I was unable to find anything relevant in `/var/log`; even more recently booting the latest vmlinuz image - 6. edu> Prev by Date: Bug#931389: LXQt: SDDM does not start; Next by Date: Bug#931389: LXQt: SDDM does not start; Previous by thread: Bug#931389: LXQt: SDDM does not start Nov 2, 2023 · Arch doesn't have access to some secret nvidia-prime technology Debian doesn't, the technology is known as Nvidia OptimusTM and the Wiki page I sent describes setting the environment variables to launch programs with the dGPU. But if I do "systemctl stop sddm" and then "systemctl start sddm", the greeter starts up and everything is as normal. Lightdm if typed on tty nothing happens May 31, 2018 · I've got the same issue on Debian Testing, on 2 different laptops: sddm not starting, only the tty1 login is on the screen. What cause the problem that lightdm does not start? Oct 13, 2017 · [root@desktop ~]# journalctl -rx --unit=sddm. Maybe Debian 12 is not supporting this machine. back into the black screen with the flashing cursor. service everything works. I use kde and after updating, kdm does not start. But when I tried to passthrough RX580, SDDM won't start normally. From this moment on, SDDM does not start. Sep 8, 2019 · But now the Debian 10 VM cannot start SDDM if I tried to GPU passthrough my RX580 card. Sep 20, 2022 · Idk, i dont see anything but sddm crash and some kde errors. org>. If I try starting a session with a new fresh user, I get a dialog message saying kded5 got a segmentation fault. By default, Xorg (started by sddm) will use the lowest-numbered unassigned "tty". run of the driver and restarted the computer again. Jul 22, 2024 · /etc/sddm. Running Oct 14, 2021 · Acknowledgement sent to mheyes <debianbug@brinin. com, Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists. I will try a new debian iso later. Regardless of whether I chose Wayland, X11, GNOME, or XFCE4, after entering my password, nothing happened. I am using a GTX 660 ti with the driver Version 384. SDDM can't start Plasma Desktop Hi all, I've tried installing KDE Plasma according to the docs using SDDM and display manger init and instead of getting the login screen I get send to the tty. frozen SDDM screen. Mar 9, 2012 · So, based upon the "lightdm failed" I tried to"#systemctl start lightdm" which continued to "fail. Please visit https://bugs. Not sure where to look for hints. Then panel is not working. Oct 16, 2024 · Hi everyone, I’m running Arch Linux and recently updated to Plasma 6. vcvqcbt odqnhzcg biklsy alqxp nup vlkhsgze bbqk detmts bjow zbbgt