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Fresh install breaks on update (SOLVED)

Fresh install of KDE from the ISO works fine until I update. Then I get a cursor and mouse pointer at or around SDDM stage and system hangs (just before Artix progress bar should come up). I can switch to TTY1 and login but no internet and startx fails.

Have tried holding back the kernel in pacman.conf but this hasn't helped.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Hayden

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Okay, upgrading kernel but blocking SDDM results in a working desktop for me.

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Are you ist weekly iso or old release from February?
Use weekly ISO

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Quote from: mullins – on
Fresh install of KDE from the ISO works fine until I update. Then I get a cursor and mouse pointer at or around SDDM stage and system hangs (just before Artix progress bar should come up). I can switch to TTY1 and login but no internet and startx fails.

Have tried holding back the kernel in pacman.conf but this hasn't helped.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Hayden

Bonjour,
I had the same problem three days ago on Artix XFCE OpenRC and SDDM.
After a simple update the next day, the problem was fixed.
It looks to me like it came from libxml2:
[2020-11-04T14: 49: 44 + 0100] [ALPM] upgraded libxml2 (2.9.10-2 -> 2.9.10-3)
 

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Thanks. So can anyone confirm if I am safe to update SDDM now?

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Quote from: alium – on
Libxml2? That's is nosense. https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/commit/aff7864570da085376d0ff8df5e7aa0c775a3295#diff-3e341d2d9c67be01819b25b25d5e53ea3cdf3a38d28846cda85a195eb9b7203a

They fixed just some CVE vulnerability.

Ssdm was twice update,problem with autologin. Put here your /var/log/sddm.log
Oops, sorry: - /
As I did my updates twice, I hadn't seen the other packages.
Indeed I had two sddm updates close together:
[2020-11-03T21:22:36+0100] [ALPM] upgraded sddm (0.18.1-3 -> 0.19.0-1)
[2020-11-04T14:49:49+0100] [ALPM] upgraded sddm (0.19.0-1 -> 0.19.0-2)

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Quote from: mullins – on
Thanks. So can anyone confirm if I am safe to update SDDM now?
Yes. For be 100% sure that you become the fix, uninstall sddm (pacman -Rdd sddm) and install it again. With newest pam works not version 0.19.0-1. All another version should works. Problem is with /etc/pam/sddm-autologin

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Quote from: alium – on
Yes. For be 100% sure that you become the fix, uninstall sddm (pacman -Rdd sddm) and install it again. With newest pam works not version 0.19.0-1. All another version should works. Problem is with /etc/pam/sddm-autologin

Thanks, that works. I appreciate your help.  :D