Bug#853843: sddm: does start the X server, but the screen remains black
On 10/03/2017 11:54, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> I'm quite puzzled by this bug, and I would like to have this
> regression fixed for stretch now that 0.14.0-2 is there. The bug is
> also reported upstream, but it's mostly inactive.
Thanks for finding this upstream bug! I subscribed to it.
> Since you are the only one that I know of that can reproduce the
> issue, I'm going to ask for your help in testing and debugging.
> First, I would like to check if the issue is caused by the build
> environment (the 0.13 version in snapshots was built agains qt5 5.4,
> while 0.14 was built against 5.7, for example). For that I've built a
> sddm 0.13 against the current sid, available from:
> https://freak.gnuservers.com.ar/~maxy/debian/sddm_regression_853843/
> Could you test this version? Does it still work as expected?
Yes, it works as expected.
> If this works, the next step would be to do a bisect of the upstream
> changes. They aren't that many, but it would be really helpful if
> you are able to do the bisect yourself, otherwise I would provide the
> packages to test for you but this would take a long time.
I am tracking too many bugs to be able to bissect it myself :<. If you provide packages, I can easily test them. How many iterations do you think it would take ?
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Laurent.
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