Re: sddm hangs in Debian/Trixie

On 2025-01-29 15:11, Aurélien COUDERC wrote:
> Le lundi 27 janvier 2025, 16:22:18 UTC+1 Gary Dale a écrit :
>> 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:
> Thanks.
>
> By any chance does switching to another VT (like ctrl+alt+F3 or any other number) and restarting SDDM (systemctl restart sddm.service) work ?
>
> There’s an upstream bug here [1] that describes the same symptoms.
>
> [1] https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/1316
>
> --
> Aurélien

That worked. I'm not sure what part of it did the trick.

I hate rebooting because it always takes me time to reorganize may 
desktops. The first time I tried it, I went to F3 and mistakenly entered 
the systemctl start command, which didn't work. It asked for the root 
password then died. The second time I rebooted, I logged in on F2 by 
mistake then relogged in on F3 and entered the correct restart command 
and it succeeded.

However my desktop was even more messed up than usual. Everything opened 
on virtual desktop 1, usually in the centre of the screen and with 
window sizes forgotten.

Also, I'm not sure why sddm wants to bring up a virtual keyboard each 
time. I'd think it should only do this if there is not actual keyboard 
present.