Bug#1052012: plasma-workspace: sddm presents a white screen with no background nor buttons

["Miguel A. Rojas" <mianrojas@gmail.com>]

Hi,

When I described it as "horrible", I wanted to mean what you described (very small size and each character is 1 pixel or less, ;)). In my case, I have no background either and the button to select between X11 and Wayland can't be seen.

# ls -l /usr/share/sddm/themes/debian-breeze (4:5.27.7-2)
total 32
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23515 Aug  7 16:42 Main.qml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   543 Aug  7 16:42 metadata.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   209 Aug  7 16:42 theme.conf

# ls -l /usr/share/sddm/themes/debian-breeze (4:5.27.8-1)

total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23515 Sep 13 22:24 Main.qml

At least, metadata.desktop and theme.conf have disappeared with the new version of the package. When you restored those files from the previous packages, sddm seems to work fine (I haven't done any additional testing beside that the screen seems to look as it was).

Regards

On 16/9/23 12:55, Alexis Murzeau wrote:

> Hi, 
>       
>       On Sat, 16 Sep 2023 00:55:12 +0200 Miguel Angel Rojas <mianrojas@gmail.com>
>       wrote: 
> > Hi there, 
> >         
> >         Downgrading the following packages: 
> >         
> >            - sddm-themes-breeze 
> >            - sddm-theme-debian-breeze 
> >         
> >         to version 4:5.27.7-2 makes sddm fully usable again with no
> >         issues. 
> >         
> >         It seems some changes have been made on version 4:5.27.8-1 that
> >         have broken 
> >         sddm. 
> >         
> >         I hope this helps. 
> >         
> >         Regards 
> >       
>       
>       
>       I have issues too with sddm-theme-debian-breeze 5.27.8-1, but the
>       symptom is different. 
>       I get a correct screen, but the password field has a very small
>       font size and each character is 1 pixel. 
>       
>       Using diffoscope, it appears sddm-theme-debian-breeze 5.27.8-1
>       doesn't have the theme.conf file. 
>       Adding back theme.conf from version 5.27.7-2 with 5.27.8-1
>       installed fix the issue for me. 
>       
>       Note: metadata.desktop was also removed in 5.27.8-1, maybe it
>       shouldn't too. 
>       
>       
>       @Miguel, can you try to do the same to check if theme.conf is also
>       the cause of your issues ? 
>       
>       That is, adding `/usr/share/sddm/themes/debian-breeze/theme.conf`
>       with this content: 
>       
>       ``` 
>       [General] 
>       showlogo=hidden 
>       logo=/usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/default-logo.svg 
>       type=image 
>       color=#1d99f3 
>       fontSize=10 
> background="" 
>       needsFullUserModel=false 
>       ``` 
>       
>       
>       -- System Information: 
>       Debian Release: trixie/sid 
>         APT prefers unstable 
>         APT policy: (950, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug') 
>       Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) 
>       Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf, armel 
>       
>       Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) 
>       Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE 
>       Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
>       LANGUAGE not set 
>       Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash 
>       Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) 
>       
>       Versions of packages sddm-theme-debian-breeze depends on: 
>       ii  plasma-framework   5.107.0-1 
>       ii  plasma-workspace   4:5.27.8-1 
>       ii  sddm-theme-breeze  4:5.27.8-1 
>       
>       Versions of packages sddm-theme-debian-breeze recommends: 
>       ii  desktop-base  12.0.6+nmu1 
>       ii  sddm          0.20.0-1 
>       
>       sddm-theme-debian-breeze suggests no packages. 
>       
>       -- no debconf information 
>       
>       
>