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Re: I broke Plasma again

Reply #30 –
you can see what you have for a DM :

pacman -Q sddm
pacman -Q lightdm
pacman -Q xdm
pacman -Q gdm

more DM we support not, i think :D

Re: I broke Plasma again

Reply #31 –
I only have sddm installed ^^
So I use openrc for innit and sddm for dm
but when I write rc-service sddm restart
it says sddm not found
Despite it being installed maybe that is the problem ?

Re: I broke Plasma again

Reply #32 –
installing sddm-openrc can really very help 😄😄😄😅
 install it and enable this service please :
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 rc-update add sddm default
and after start this service or restart computer

Re: I broke Plasma again

Reply #33 –
Alright, so now it works somewhat, it looks same but now I can start it, also, it still freezes, also new behavior, when trying to log into the new account it seems that sddm is crashing before relaunching itself

Re: I broke Plasma again

Reply #34 –
put here some new logs please, if you can.

Re: I broke Plasma again

Reply #36 –
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[06:42:32.344] (EE) HELPER: chdir( /home/fixer ) failed for user:  "fixer"
[06:42:32.344] (EE) HELPER: verify directory exist and has sufficient permissions
seems as your home dir permissions are set wrong
check permissions of your /home/fixer
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ls -ls /home
and eventually
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ls -la  /home/fixer

Re: I broke Plasma again

Reply #37 –
The home directory hadn't been made for fixer I fixed that
 
Aaaand the behavior becomes the same as with the other accounts

Re: I broke Plasma again

Reply #38 –
what is the behavior? does sddm start, and will plasma start? plasma as it starts and takes a long time or nothing happens? or sddm crash? or sddm returns to the original screen. Please describe the behavior after starting sddm better . I don't have a clear idea of what you see on the screen because I can't see it on your screen.

Try to install xfce, and in sddm select xfce instead of plasma. If xfce starts via sddm, the problem is somewhere in the plasma. But if xfce doesn't work either, the issue is probably in sddm, then you need to install another DM (like gdm or lighdm) for confirming this. But if he doesn't work either, and doesn't run any DE, then there's an issue somewhere in your system settings.

if you can not identify the cause, and you have no experience with Linux and  the issue  is somewhere in your system settings I would suggest maybe even fresh installation from ISO week


Re: I broke Plasma again

Reply #39 –
About sddm.log:

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[08:00:18.166] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Starting...
[08:00:18.166] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Authenticating...
[08:00:18.166] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Preparing to converse...
[08:00:18.166] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages
[08:00:18.166] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Preparing to converse...
[08:00:18.166] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages
[08:00:18.166] (WW) DAEMON: Authentication information: "The account is locked due to 3 failed logins."
[08:00:18.166] (WW) DAEMON: Authentication information: "(10 minutes left to unlock)"
[08:00:18.166] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Preparing to converse...
[08:00:18.166] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages
[08:00:21.547] (II) DAEMON: Message received from greeter: Login
[08:00:21.547] (II) DAEMON: Reading from "/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop"
[08:00:21.548] (WW) DAEMON: Existing authentication ongoing, aborting
[...]

Meaning the OP got timeout due to 3 unsuccessful logins, and later:
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[08:01:07.172] (II) DAEMON: Message received from greeter: Login
[08:01:07.172] (II) DAEMON: Reading from "/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop"
[08:01:07.173] (WW) DAEMON: Existing authentication ongoing, aborting
[08:27:01.300] (WW) DAEMON: Signal received: SIGTERM
[08:27:01.300] (II) DAEMON: Greeter stopping...
[08:27:01.300] (II) DAEMON: Socket server stopping...
[08:27:01.300] (II) DAEMON: Socket server stopped.
[08:27:01.300] (II) DAEMON: Display server stopping...
[08:27:01.332] (II) DAEMON: Display server stopped.
[08:27:01.333] (II) DAEMON: Running display stop script  "/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xstop"
[08:27:01.341] (WW) DAEMON: QProcess: Destroyed while process ("/usr/lib/sddm/sddm-helper") is still running.
[...]
[08:27:33.331] (II) DAEMON: Display server started.
[08:27:33.331] (II) DAEMON: Socket server starting...
[08:27:33.331] (II) DAEMON: Socket server started.
[08:27:33.332] (II) DAEMON: Loading theme configuration from "/usr/share/sddm/themes/artix/theme.conf"
[08:27:33.332] (II) DAEMON: Greeter starting...
[08:27:33.346] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Starting...
[08:27:33.346] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Authenticating...
[08:27:33.346] (II) HELPER: [PAM] returning.
[08:27:33.355] (II) DAEMON: Greeter session started successfully
[08:27:33.472] (II) DAEMON: Message received from greeter: Connect
[08:29:49.935] (II) DAEMON: Message received from greeter: Login
[08:29:49.935] (II) DAEMON: Reading from "/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop"
[08:29:49.936] (II) DAEMON: Reading from "/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop"
[08:29:49.936] (II) DAEMON: Session "/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop" selected, command: "dbus-run-session /usr/bin/startplasma-x11"
[08:29:49.960] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Starting...
[08:29:49.961] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Authenticating...
[08:29:49.961] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Preparing to converse...
[08:29:49.961] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages
[08:29:52.473] (WW) HELPER: [PAM] authenticate: Permission denied
[08:29:52.473] (II) HELPER: [PAM] returning.
[08:29:52.473] (WW) DAEMON: Authentication error: "Permission denied"
[08:29:52.473] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Ended.
[08:29:52.480] (WW) DAEMON: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 1
[08:30:02.554] (II) DAEMON: Message received from greeter: Login
[08:30:02.554] (II) DAEMON: Reading from "/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop"
[08:30:02.554] (II) DAEMON: Reading from "/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop"
[08:30:02.554] (II) DAEMON: Session "/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop" selected, command: "dbus-run-session /usr/bin/startplasma-x11"
[08:30:02.566] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Starting...
[08:30:02.566] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Authenticating...
[08:30:02.566] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Preparing to converse...
[08:30:02.566] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages
[08:30:02.573] (II) HELPER: [PAM] returning.
[08:30:02.579] (II) DAEMON: Authenticated successfully
[08:30:02.647] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Closing session
[08:30:02.648] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Ended.
[08:30:02.649] (II) DAEMON: Auth: sddm-helper exited successfully
[08:30:02.650] (II) DAEMON: Greeter stopped.
Probably rebooted or restarted sddm and could login successfully.

Re: I broke Plasma again

Reply #40 –
Alright, Xfce worked instantly.
I am quite happy with having it work, maybe I should just reinstall plasma then.
To problem, once the sddm is restarted, it goes to the login screen, where I can pick the session and write my login, when I do and press login with plasma selected as the session, it just freezes and does nothing. As in, it stays on the login screen, and I cannot interact with it anymore. while with Xfce, it loged me in instantly

Also little problem I been having is for some reason when the screen loads, an touch keyboard appears, what is quite annoying and I do not know how to fix that

Re: I broke Plasma again

Reply #41 –
Alright I found how to fix it, it was just as simple as reinstalling Plasma with
sudo pacman -S --overwrite /* plasma