(In reply to Dr. Werner Fink from comment #3) > > The EE message about > > [ 840.157] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to get session: PID 2837 does not > belong to any known session > > remains, but this seems to be another problem. There seems to exist a > process which already locks the controlling tty on vt7 Hmm it would be interesting to find out the session X server belongs to. You can try "ps -eo cmd,lsession | grep X" or something similar. If X server doesn't have a session, it might be SDDM that hasn't properly set up things before starting the server.