sddm stays black after recent TW update
Hello! After rebooting my Tumbleweed machine after one of the recent updates, sddm just shows a black screen with just the mouse pointer showing. I have not been able to pinpoint the cause of this but maybe someone else has and can help me save some time. Any ideas? Adrian
On Oct 5, 2023, at 9:54 AM, Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@suse.com> wrote:
After rebooting my Tumbleweed machine after one of the recent updates, sddm just shows a black screen with just the mouse pointer showing.
I have not been able to pinpoint the cause of this but maybe someone else has and can help me save some time.
Looking at the logs, it seems that sddm-helper is crashing. I could work around that by switching to lightdm instead of sddm. However, after that it’s KDE that immediately crashes so I assume the sddm crash is related to some regression in Qt or related code. Adrian
Hello, In the Message; Subject : sddm stays black after recent TW update Message-ID : <D0AC58DA-F3A7-4181-9854-31A14B347F5C@suse.com> Date & Time: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 07:53:49 +0000 [AG] == Adrian Glaubitz via openSUSE Factory <factory@lists.opensuse.org> has written: AG> Hello! AG> After rebooting my Tumbleweed machine after one of the recent AG> updates, sddm just shows a black screen with just the mouse AG> pointer showing. AG> I have not been able to pinpoint the cause of this but maybe AG> someone else has and can help me save some time. AG> Any ideas? I have not had any problems with my Tumbleweed (VERSION="20231003"). I think the reason is that I am using sddm (I built with Qt6, though), which is the very latest git head. Do you want to build it yourself? Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡 野宮 賢 mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "Maddox hopes that empowering users to pick their own algorithms will get them to think more about what’s involved in making them. " -- Bluesky's Custom Algorithms Could Be the Future of Social Media --
Hi Masaru! Thanks for the suggestion. I by switching from sddm to sddm-qt6, I was able to get sddm working again. However, KDE itself still doesn't work. While I am able to login, all I am just seeing the wallpaper itself. Thanks, Adrian ________________________________ From: Masaru Nomiya <nomiya@lake.dti.ne.jp> Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2023 12:48 PM To: factory@lists.opensuse.org <factory@lists.opensuse.org> Subject: Re: sddm stays black after recent TW update Hello, In the Message; Subject : sddm stays black after recent TW update Message-ID : <D0AC58DA-F3A7-4181-9854-31A14B347F5C@suse.com> Date & Time: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 07:53:49 +0000 [AG] == Adrian Glaubitz via openSUSE Factory <factory@lists.opensuse.org> has written: AG> Hello! AG> After rebooting my Tumbleweed machine after one of the recent AG> updates, sddm just shows a black screen with just the mouse AG> pointer showing. AG> I have not been able to pinpoint the cause of this but maybe AG> someone else has and can help me save some time. AG> Any ideas? I have not had any problems with my Tumbleweed (VERSION="20231003"). I think the reason is that I am using sddm (I built with Qt6, though), which is the very latest git head. Do you want to build it yourself? Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡 野宮 賢 mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "Maddox hopes that empowering users to pick their own algorithms will get them to think more about what’s involved in making them. " -- Bluesky's Custom Algorithms Could Be the Future of Social Media --
Hi! On Thu, 2023-10-05 at 13:44 +0000, Adrian Glaubitz via openSUSE Factory wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion. I by switching from sddm to sddm-qt6, I was able to get sddm working again.
However, KDE itself still doesn't work. While I am able to login, all I am just seeing the wallpaper itself.
OK, I am back to KDE. I gave it another try to log in with Plasma (X11) and voila, it suddenly works again. Since I don't want to risk to be locked out again, I won't be testing Wayland for the time being and also not log out. Let's hope the issue will be sorted out soon. Adrian
Adrian: I think I posted on another thread here of yours about a log in problem with TW with a link to my help forum thread?? Didn't hear back on it. I've had a similar problem which intense help forum psychoanalysis has not produced a solution . . . . In my case I'm using X11 and it takes 3 or 4 minutes to get the GUI populated, after going to wallpaper and cursor . . . . It sounds "similar." I believe long ago I messed around with "sddm" to no avail. What exactly did you change for your solution? https://forums.opensuse.org/t/log-in-and-suspend-slowness-issues-in-the-syst...
Hi Fritz! On Thu, 2023-10-05 at 14:49 +0000, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
I think I posted on another thread here of yours about a log in problem with TW with a link to my help forum thread?? Didn't hear back on it.
I did actually reply to that thread a little later. Someone called xtex found the cause for the problem, it was a memory leak in libblockdev which got fixed in 3.0.3. Before that, I just downgraded libblockdev and udisks2 to work around the bug.
I've had a similar problem which intense help forum psychoanalysis has not produced a solution . . . . In my case I'm using X11 and it takes 3 or 4 minutes to get the GUI populated, after going to wallpaper and cursor . . . . It sounds "similar." I believe long ago I messed around with "sddm" to no avail.
What exactly did you change for your solution?
https://forums.opensuse.org/t/log-in-and-suspend-slowness-issues-in-the-syst...
See above. Updating to snapshot 20231003 should fix the problem. FWIW, the KDE issue I saw now is most likely unrelated to that. However, in that case, switching from sddm to sddm-qt6 seems to do the trick. Adrian
Thanks for the reply back . . . didn't get any email on the previous posts . . . . So, OK, thanks for the details . . . I'll try to dig into it and see if any of that gets me into TW a bit faster. ZRight now it takes 3 to 4 minutes to get to a working GUI . . . "slow" . . . .
Adrian: Finally got around to installing the "sddm-qt6" package and switching to that showing as "sddm" in the "alternatives" did seem to fix the long-running problem with slow log in on TW. Thanks kindly for the hint on it. I thought that a couple of weeks back I had checked that out, but perhaps that was on another openSUSE system. Seems like "sddm" with added "qt6" enhancements has offered the solution to TW slowness to GUI and other app launching issues . . . . On to the next problem.
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