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

[Alan McKinnon]

On 15/10/2017 11:08, Arve Barsnes wrote:
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> On 15 October 2017 at 10:32, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
> <mailto:alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>> wrote:
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>     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>
>     > <mailto:alan.mckinnon@×××××.com <mailto:alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>>> wrote:
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>     >     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"
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>     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.
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>     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?

Yes, that is the consolekit I have too.

I can't check any of this right now but I recall in the gentoo bug and
referenced sddm bug lots of talk of Seats etc. And there's a sddm module
for pam too. The difference might be in there. Meanwhile Michael has
pushed an -r1 workaround that needs testing


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com