Re: sddm hangs in Debian/Trixie

On 2025-02-01 12:52, Gary Dale wrote:
> 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.
>
OK, found part of the problem. It brought me up in Wayland instead of 
X11. That's why my desktops were so messed up.