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  1. Bug #1432171
  2. Comment #36

Comment 36 for bug 1432171

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Michael (michael-pronath) wrote :

found the reason ... it's about sddm autologin to a user that doesn't exist anymore. The login fails, but then sddm doesn't report an error message but simply hangs.

The condition is visible from /var/log/sddm.log
[09:42:47.765] (II) DAEMON: Display server started.
[09:42:47.785] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Starting...
[09:42:47.785] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Authenticating...
[09:42:47.795] (II) HELPER: [PAM] returning.
[09:42:47.811] (WW) HELPER: [PAM] acctMgmt: Authentication failure
[09:42:47.811] (WW) DAEMON: Authentication error: "Authentication failure"
[09:42:47.812] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Ended.
[09:42:47.815] (WW) DAEMON: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 1

Solution: disable sddm autologin or set it to a user that exists.

For sddm it would be nice if it reported the condition as an error message instead of "Starting version 219".