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sddm does not start with systemd

Bug #1384401 reported by Hmpf
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Kubuntu PPA
Incomplete
Undecided
Jonathan Riddell

Bug Description

I installed systemd-sysv and rebooted the system, afterwards sddm did not start by itself anymore. Trying to start it via

:~$ sudo systemctl start sddm
Job for sddm.service failed. See 'systemctl status sddm.service' and 'journalctl -xn for details.

:~$ sudo journalctl -xn
-- Logs begin at Mi 2014-10-22 21:02:25 CEST, end at Mi 2014-10-22 21:04:39 CEST. --
Okt 22 21:03:27 p5sysd sddm[963]: /etc/init.d/sddm: 4: .: Can't open /lib/init/init-d-script
Okt 22 21:03:27 p5sysd systemd[1]: sddm.service: control process exited, code=exited status=2
Okt 22 21:03:27 p5sysd systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Start SDDM.
-- Subject: Unit sddm.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit sddm.service has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.
Okt 22 21:03:27 p5sysd systemd[1]: Unit sddm.service entered failed state.

Starting directly sddm with sudo works.

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Rohan Garg (rohangarg) wrote :

Please report upstream to SDDM since the systemd unit comes directly from them.

SDDM bug tracker : https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/new

Changed in kubuntu-ppa:
status: New → Invalid
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Hmpf (dns-hmpf) wrote :

Please reopen. The discussion in the upstream bugtracker [1] shows that it is likely to be a packaging bug (packages compiled with -DNO_SYSTEMD).

1: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/295#event-184014278

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Rohan Garg (rohangarg) wrote :

Assigning to Jonathan since he disabled the systemd support.

Changed in kubuntu-ppa:
assignee: nobody → Jonathan Riddell (jr)
status: Invalid → Confirmed
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Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote :

it'll get fixed when ubuntu switches to systemd properly in the next month or two

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Rohan Garg (rohangarg) wrote :

Right, so sddm/systemd will only properly work in Vivid and not Utopic then.

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Loïc Grobol (loic-grobol) wrote :

As of now sudo systemctl start sddm seems to work, but sddm still not starts by itself.

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CoreDuo (kernelpanic64) wrote :

'systemctl enable sddm' to start it automatically seems to work in vivid now.

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Florian (floeschie) wrote :

FYI: I ran into a similar problem, but none of the hints mentioned before helped me. However, I have found bug #1447144, which fixed my issue by removing /etc/sddm.conf.

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Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Kubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Kubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Kubuntu version. If you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 1384401

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Changed in kubuntu-ppa:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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