Re: [gentoo-user] sddm-0.16.0 does not work with plain openrc

[Arve Barsnes]

On 15 October 2017 at 10:32, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 14/10/2017 11:55, Arve Barsnes wrote:
> > On 14 October 2017 at 08:37, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
> > <mailto:alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     A quick heads-up to anyone who like me uses sddm on a plain openrc
> box
> >     with USE="-elogind -systemd" and upgrades to sddm-0.16.0 (recently
> >     released)
> >
> >     That combination does not work. The xdm service starts, sddm
> launches,
> >     logs a message that doesn't look too ominous and then does ...
> nothing.
> >     No sddm, No X-Server. Very confusing, took me a while to solve.
> >
> >
> > That's interesting. This combination works just fine here. Installed
> > 0.16.0 Wednesday, rebooted Thursday, sddm worked as normal.
> > USE="consolekit pam -elogind -systemd"
>
> The gentoo bug shows that the problem is a function defined in elogind
> that should also be in consolekit but isn't. So obviously there's
> something additional going on.
>
> Your USE for sddm is "-elogind" true enough, do you maybe have elgind
> installed anyway for some other reason?
>
> No, I do not. I agree that something must be providing this function on my
system though. We all have consolekit-1.2.0 I assume?

Arve