Re: sddm hangs in Debian/Trixie

Gary Dale <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user.kde
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2025-01-17 19:54, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
>> But not for me. After a reboot, it still hangs.
> Have you tried removing its configuration? It works for me so it can't be
> completely broken.
>
Here's the journalctl output for the latest attempt to start sddm - this 
time with the truncated line included:

Jan 27 09:49:49 transponder systemd[1]: Started sddm.service - Simple 
Desktop Display Manager.
Jan 27 09:49:49 transponder sddm[1590]: Initializing...
Jan 27 09:49:49 transponder sddm[1590]: Starting...
Jan 27 09:49:49 transponder sddm[1590]: Logind interface found
Jan 27 09:49:49 transponder sddm[1590]: Adding new display...
Jan 27 09:49:49 transponder sddm[1590]: Loaded empty theme configuration
Jan 27 09:49:49 transponder sddm[1590]: Xauthority path: 
"/run/sddm/xauth_QcqrjQ"
Jan 27 09:49:49 transponder sddm[1590]: Using VT 2
Jan 27 09:49:49 transponder sddm[1590]: Display server starting...
Jan 27 09:49:49 transponder sddm[1590]: Writing cookie to 
"/run/sddm/xauth_QcqrjQ"
Jan 27 09:49:49 transponder sddm[1590]: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten 
tcp -background none -seat seat0 vt2 -au
th /run/sddm/xauth_QcqrjQ -noreset -displayfd 16
Jan 27 09:49:49 transponder sddm[1590]: Failed to read display number 
from pipe
Jan 27 09:49:49 transponder sddm[1590]: Display server stopping...
Jan 27 09:49:49 transponder sddm[1590]: Attempt 1 starting the Display 
server on vt 2 failed
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