Users cannot log in using sddm on Fedora 23

[Lester M Petrie]

On 12/19/2015 2:05 PM, Andrej Podzimek wrote:
>>>> After a Fedora 23 installation, users can't log in with sddm. A "login
>>>> failed" message is displayed by sddm, sometimes preceded by a short
>>>> switch
>>>> to the tty and back.
>>>
>>> Anything recorded in these users' ~/.xsession-errors ?
>>
>> No. :-( Nothing at all, it's empty. (Yeah, that was the first thing I
>> checked.) Also "audit2allow -b" doesn't show anything related to sddm.
>> But KDE works and starts just fine using startx.
>
> I've just tried Plasma 5 Wayland, but the outcome was even worse,
> because I ended up with a black screen and no way to switch consoles.
> The log messages are still the same, sddm-helper exits with error codes
> 2 or 15. Running sddm with --test-mode doesn't work at all, it just
> hanges right away.
>
> So sddm is unusable on Fedora 23. (That's odd, because it works just
> fine for me on Arch.) What alternatives could I try? Is there a working
> display manager compatible with KDE 5?
>
> Andrej

KDM is still available in KDE F23. I use it because I have to be able to 
configure the login screen, and I didn't find anyway of doing that with 
SDDM.


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Lester M Petrie