Comment # 5 on bug 1215962 from Fabian Vogt

(In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #4)
> Shawn tagged me into this and I did some digging. I suspect that this might
> be fallout from the utmp removal in Tumbleweed.
> 
> The only places where this error occur in the codebase are around its utmp
> code:
> https://github.com/sddm/sddm/blob/501129294be1487f753482c29949fc1c19ef340e/
> src/helper/HelperApp.cpp#L140-L165
> 
> I don't think we should be doing utmp logins/logouts when we're perfectly
> capable of using login1 when it's available...

On Tumbleweed yes, but pretty much everywhere else [buw]tmp still exists and
gets read (wall etc.).

It also won't cause the helper to fail, it's only used to log failed and
successful login attempts. Errors are logged but ignored.