Situation : fresh install using base-openrc
Installation goes smooth and fast until I install displaymanager-openrc and SDDM .
Upon reboot SDDM comes up just fine, presenting the expected login-window.
SDDM accepts the credentials but the desktop (plasma) is not started.
Swapped to tty3, desinstalled SDDM, installed SLIM and edited the necessary files and restarted xdm-service.
SLIM accepts the credentials and fails to start the desktop.
SLIM blocked all tty's CTRL+ALT+Fx yields nothing.
Added init=/bin/bash at end of the linux-line in grub iot get out.
Desinstalled SLIM and got ttty's back.
Installed lightdm + gtk-greeter edited conf-files and restarted xdm-service.
Lightdm does present a login-screen on tty7 and does one of two things upon accepting the credentials :
1. Presents a blank screen and blinking cursor.
2. Starts plasma and keeps starting plasma without presenting any usable screen.
Upon desinstallation of every trace of a displaymanager or it's service I decide to try xinitrc.
Upon copying and editing .xinitrc, startx starts plasma swiftly and faultless.
Any ideas into what I might have ***ked up ?
No lightdm-log. Apparently got deleted upon removal.
Desktop with an intermittently faulty sdb1 containing the home-dir provided the answer.
Apparently " No Homedir = No Login" unless your name is root or you use startx.
Well, No Homedir = No Login, is a normal condition.
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@linuxerThis morning a f***ing m***n with a smartphone and a car destroyed my bike and my laptop and I barely escaped.
This afternoon I get a " TOLD YOU SO " after the facts.
Thank you so very much.
That's terrible
@missedrx. Fortunately you survived the ordeal. I drove motorcycles for years and now drive a bicycle occasionally....one needs to always be on guard. I couldn't count all the times that I had close calls.
Best regards.
Terrible news
@missedrx. Good news that you survived the accident.
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