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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sddm-0.16.0 does not work with plain openrc
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 10:30:23
Message-Id: 0d08c6b6-72af-4042-3124-5d457144006c@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: sddm-0.16.0 does not work with plain openrc by Michael Palimaka
1 On 15/10/2017 11:02, Michael Palimaka wrote:
2 > On 10/14/2017 05:37 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 >> Hi
4 >>
5 >> A quick heads-up to anyone who like me uses sddm on a plain openrc box
6 >> with USE="-elogind -systemd" and upgrades to sddm-0.16.0 (recently released)
7 >>
8 >> That combination does not work. The xdm service starts, sddm launches,
9 >> logs a message that doesn't look too ominous and then does ... nothing.
10 >> No sddm, No X-Server. Very confusing, took me a while to solve.
11 >>
12 >> Masking sddm-0.16.0 and downgrading back to sddm-0.15.0 restores
13 >> functionality. More info and the Gentoo bug report:
14 >>
15 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633920
16 >>
17 >
18 > I've since pushed -r1 which reportedly works around the issue until a
19 > proper upstream fix becomes available.
20 >
21
22 Thanks Michael,
23
24 I'll give it a test in a few hours or maybe tomorrow.
25 Can't test right now - you can blame docker and kernel recompile and
26 ansible awx for that :-)
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29 --
30 Alan McKinnon
31 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com