Re: sddm hangs in Debian/Trixie [resolved]

On 2025-02-01 14:05, Gary Dale wrote:
> 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.
>
Seems to be working again!