Switching to SDDM

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 13:44:05 UTC 2014


Patrick Boutilier wrote:

> On 12/18/2014 08:34 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
>> Germano Massullo wrote:
>>
>>> You could try
>>> # systemctl disable kdm
>>> # systemctl enable sddm
>>
>> Doesn't work on my system, all I get on reboot is a black screen.
>>
>> No errors in /var/log/messages, /var/log/sddm.log, or /var/log/Xorg.0.old.
>>
> 
> kdm is installed?

Did you mean to ask if sddm is installed?  kdm is what I've been using.
sddm-0.10.0-2.fc21.x86_64

Again, no error messages.
/var/log/sddm.log says:

[07:29:09.767] (II) DAEMON: Initializing...
[07:29:09.777] (II) DAEMON: Starting...
[07:29:09.777] (II) DAEMON: Adding new display 0 on vt 1 ...
[07:29:09.777] (II) DAEMON: Adding cookie to "/var/run/sddm/:0"
[07:29:09.791] (II) DAEMON: Display server starting...
[07:29:09.791] (II) DAEMON: Running: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/sddm/:0 -
nolisten tcp -background none -noreset vt1
[07:29:11.018] (WW) DAEMON: Signal received: SIGUSR1
[07:29:11.018] (II) DAEMON: Running display setup script  
"/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup"
[07:29:11.019] (II) DAEMON: Display server started.
[07:29:11.019] (II) DAEMON: Socket server starting...
[07:29:11.019] (II) DAEMON: Socket server started.
[07:29:11.021] (II) DAEMON: Greeter starting...
[07:29:11.037] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Starting...
[07:29:11.037] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Authenticating...
[07:29:11.038] (II) HELPER: [PAM] returning.
[07:29:11.084] (II) DAEMON: Greeter session started successfully
[07:29:11.872] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Ended.
[07:29:11.876] (II) DAEMON: Auth: sddm-helper exited successfully
[07:29:11.876] (II) DAEMON: Greeter stopped.
[07:29:52.839] (WW) DAEMON: Signal received: SIGTERM
[07:29:52.839] (II) DAEMON: Socket server stopping...
[07:29:52.839] (II) DAEMON: Socket server stopped.
[07:29:52.839] (II) DAEMON: Display server stopping...
[07:29:52.869] (II) DAEMON: Display server stopped.

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