Re: how to debug SDDM login

[Luc Castermans <luc.castermans@gmail.com>]

@Sedat Dilek : there is no NVIDIA on this laptop. I use Wayland (also tried X11)

@Martin: SDDM from experimental gave an error up on starting aka it did *not* start.   SDDM from Sid worked.

I will look in the log-files per your guidance.

thanks!

Op ma 21 okt 2024 om 12:38 schreef Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>:

Hi Luc.

Please no carbon copy.

Luc Castermans - 21.10.24, 10:43:40 MESZ:
> My question is: how/where can I see why SDDM does not accept my login.

Did you look at the various log files?

- /var/log/auth.log
- /var/log/ssdm.log
- /var/log/user.log

come to my mind. I'd check for any updated log files in /var/log after a
failed login attempt. Probably like this: find /var/log --mmin -3

Also did you test user login on a tty?

Also if you are using SDDM from experimental, maybe downgrading to the one
in unstable may help? However here 0.21.0-3 works nicely, except for not
loading the theme I would like to use.

Best,
--
Martin - please no carbon copy to me

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Luc Castermans
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