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[SOLVED]: Can't login from Display Manager after upgrade

I just upgraded, last was 5/20.  I run s6 and lxqt.  Now i can't login.  I see logfile additions to both sddm.log and Xorg.0.log when i attempt to login.  What happens is that the login screen goes away to the console screen with the artix "logo" then back to the login screen (in acouple of seconds).  The output in both the logfiles i mentioned only shows things being done and then suddenly undone.   Nothing indicating any reason why, or any errors.  I don't know where else to look for a clue.  I'm logged into a bunch of consoles, so just logging in as my user (and root) works fine.

Re: Can't login from Display Manager after upgrade

Reply #1 –
Post the logs.
You might not see anything untoward in them. Someone else might. Might not but it doesn't hurt.

If you have copies of older logs compare the difference.
Like what happened next (before thing start getting undone) from a log where it worked.

Re: Can't login from Display Manager after upgrade

Reply #2 –
Are you using gremlins repositories by any chance? Install libprocps  :)

(if you don't use gremlins it will throw an error and not want to install, therefore your problem is from elsewhere)

Re: Can't login from Display Manager after upgrade

Reply #3 –
I would have sworn i never enabled gremlins (barely even remember having heard of it) but i tried to install the package and... no problem.  And now i can login.  Brilliant.  How can i find what that was about?

And thanks so much.  It's frustrating when an upgrade busts something but this fix was almost instant.
Now if only pipewire would work.

Re: SOLVED: Can't login from Display Manager after upgrade

Reply #4 –
Went to the bullseye this time :) You're welcome.

I also found that myself from the dev channel few days ago: new procps-ng version 4 and new lxqt-session compiled against it, libprocps provides compatibility for procps 3 which I guess for a while will still be needed in some places.

Expect new major lxqt update later this year probably to get adjusted to changes above, I already use parts of it such as lxqt-qt6plugin-git for qt6 stuff to render properly.

Re: SOLVED: Can't login from Display Manager after upgrade

Reply #5 –
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Now if only pipewire would work.
I remembered your thread now. If you're using lxqt anyway why not start it with lxqt modules and maybe something changes, I do that and works perfectly.
So make 3 .desktop files for pw, pw-pulse and wireplumber and place them in .config/autostart just like in their guide https://lxqt-project.org/blog/2022/09/20/about-modules-in-lxqt/
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[Desktop Entry]
Exec=pipewire-pulse
Name=pw-pulse
Type=Application
Version=1.0
X-LXQt-Module=true
 

Re: [SOLVED]: Can't login from Display Manager after upgrade

Reply #6 –
I composed a long message in response to Hitman's (pipewire-related) suggestion (having tried it).  Thanks for that, as it roused me to go at this again.  And while doing so, i ran across a note i had made, taken from
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/WirePlumber

that default settings could be restored by deleting the contents of ~/.local/state/wireplumber/

So, i saved my long post as a draft and tried deleting this directory and, *voila*, everything works properly now!
After having this audio interface for over 3 months now... i can finally start using it!