SDDM Loops Back to Login Prompt

StevenC21 · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2018 Posts: 63

Hello all. I am having a peculiar issue with SDDM, that I can't find anyone else online who seems to have it. Put simply, it appears that SDDM is looping. When I enter my credentials and hit `enter` to sign in, or click the GUI icon, it goes black, and appears to attempt to initialize KDE Plasma... but then it just goes right back to SDDM. The log file doesn't appear to make a not of this, but if anyone would like to see it, I can provide it.

In addition, `startx` works perfectly to start KDE Plasma manually. I am using Consolekit and eudev. Any help is appreciated.

eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2019 1:36 am Post subject:

When you're in sddm what happens if you press F1 and cycle through the sessions -- and pick specific ones?

I got tired of sddm, was too clunky and opted for lightdm...
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StevenC21 · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2018 Posts: 63

They all have the same effect. Xsession, KDE, and KDE-Wayland all do the loop.

eccerr0r · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2019 2:01 am Post subject:

Which logfile are you looking at?

I believe there should be an ~user/.xsession-errors file, it should contain something useful?
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StevenC21 · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2018 Posts: 63

That file does not exist.

eccerr0r · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2019 4:28 am Post subject:

Just to make sure, you do NOT have .Xsession, .Xsessionrc, .Xclients, or .xinitrc in your ~user ?
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StevenC21 · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2018 Posts: 63

The home directory (for the root user in this case, don't worry, I'm going to switch to a normal user once I get X up and running) has a .Xauthority and .xinitrc file.

eccerr0r · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2019 5:12 am Post subject:

Well, having .xinitrc will mess up the session management in sddm/xinit files for Gentoo, what happens if you don't have it?
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dspahn · Guru Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 392

I changed to use the non-wayland option. I didn't need it, and things are running fine without it. To me it just wasn't worth the time to try to get it working, based on my needs and available time.
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StevenC21 · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2018 Posts: 63

I removed those files and it works fully now! Thank you friend!