On 20/02/16 08:21 PM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:

On 20/02/16 12:37 PM, billb@sent.at wrote:

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Darryl

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016, at 10:27 AM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:

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With all the stuff that got updated with today's release of Plasma ver 5.5.4, sddm is now broken. I get a blank screen on tty7, and nothing will get the login screen to come up. Kdm however is working fine (otherwise I wouldn't be writing this message). Can you paste the contents of your

/etc/sddm.conf /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager

? Grrrrrrr... something wrote a bunch of junk into sddm.conf. I have no time right now to test with the corrected file, but I will reboot in the morning to see if it boots cleanly. I had added the HideShells and HideUsers lines as per a previous thread. When I checked after this problem arose, both those lines had been corrupted.

I just successfully rebooted with sddm as the displaymanager, but checking sddm.conf just now, I see both of those lines are again corrupted. Here are the current contents of the file: [Theme] Current=breeze CursorTheme=breeze_cursors [Users] HideShells=/bin/false,/sbinQ^@^@^@陸ꈽ缗^@,^@缗^@^X^@^@^@^@缗 ^@^X^@^@^@iin HideUsers=at,bin,^@1^@^@^@^A,缗^@毰,缗^@^X^@^@,^N^@,^@^@^@,^@榐^È^@,陸ꈽ 缗^@陸ꈽ,^@^@^@^@ MinimumUid=0 MaximumUid=65000 [XDisplay] ServerPath=/usr/bin/X SessionCommand=/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession DisplayCommand=/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup MinimumVT=7 It is a mystery why this machine just rebooted into runlevel 5 with this corrupt config file, but refused to do so previously. It is also a mystery why it keeps getting corrupted. Would it help if I log out, switch to runlevel 3 to modify the file, then go back to runlevel 5? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org

Very strange; your first reply arrived on-list, but not in my inbox. Your latest (quoted below) arrived in my inbox, but not on-list (though it is in the list archive). I think my ISP is perhaps playing games with my incoming mail. On 22/02/16 08:25 AM, billb@sent.at wrote:

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016, at 06:16 AM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:

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It is a mystery why this machine just rebooted into runlevel 5 with this corrupt config file, but refused to do so previously. You switched kdm -> sddm back? Yes. On this boot, all the junk was ignored, so I wound up with all the daemons and printers and other such stuff still showing up in the login screen.

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It is also a mystery why it keeps getting corrupted. Would it help if I log out, switch to runlevel 3 to modify the file, then go back to runlevel 5? I saw that kind of corruption of that file awhile ago.

Iiuc you're not supposed to text-edit KDE configs while "in use" by the DE. Perhaps not, but it still shouldn't result in a corrupted file. In any event, I'll do as you suggest--->

Drop to init 3, edit, reboot - is what I'd try. Stay tuned ;)

Or better, recreate the file in case something's screwy at that inode. So

mv /etc/sddm.conf /etc/sddm.conf.OLD edit /etc/sddm.conf copy/paste the contents of /etc/sddm.conf.OLD => /etc/sddm.conf reboot

I'm not 100% sure that's all I needed to do.

Doubtful, as I can read the file OK with anything I've tried; however, better safe than have to keep re-editing the thing... later. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org

On 20/02/16 12:37 PM, billb@sent.at wrote:

Darryl

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016, at 10:27 AM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:

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With all the stuff that got updated with today's release of Plasma ver 5.5.4, sddm is now broken. I get a blank screen on tty7, and nothing will get the login screen to come up. Kdm however is working fine (otherwise I wouldn't be writing this message). Can you paste the contents of your

/etc/sddm.conf /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager

? OK, I have been through this so many times, I have lost count. Here is what I would like sddm.conf to look like:

# cat /etc/sddm.conf.save [Theme] Current=breeze CursorTheme=breeze_cursors [XDisplay] ServerPath=/usr/bin/X SessionCommand=/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession DisplayCommand=/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup MinimumVT=7 [Users] MinimumUid=0 MaximumUid=65000 HideShells=/bin/false,/sbin/nologin,/usr/sbin/nologin HideUsers=at,bin,daemon,ftp,games,lp,man,news,nobody,uucp Every time I fire up runlevel 5, however, this (or similar garbage) is what I get in those last two lines: [Users] HideShells=/bin/false,/sbin/nologin,텨罬 @ HideUsers=at,bin,!氰,,罬▒,,,媰Ȥ,虸텨罬虸텨, Everything else is left intact, unless I put the XDisplay section below the Users section -- then it is corrupted too. I have tried re-ordering everything, I have tried lowering the MaximumUid, I have rebooted until I am blue in the face, and I have changed between runlevels 3 and 5 on the command line so many times, just to edit the damn file, that I have almost forgotten what a desktop environment looks like. I even tried putting the hidden shells on two lines: HideShells=HideShells=/bin/false,/sbin/nologin HideShells=/usr/sbin/nologin That just left me with two instances of "HideShells=/usr/sbin/nologin" I cannot even boot into runlevel 3: at the grub prompt, every time I type on the keyboard, the text entry panel disappears and I am left with the list of boot options. Do I have to change the default runlevel just to do this? Perhaps what I should be asking instead is, "Is there any point to all of this?" :'( -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org