Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SDDM problem
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 09:39:14
Message-Id: 4722740.NyYclOMksW@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] SDDM problem by john
1 On Monday 30 November 2015 17:33:23 john wrote:
2 > On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 14:25:31 +0000
3 > Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
4 > > On Saturday 28 November 2015 12:51:59 john wrote:
5 > > Not wanting to mess up my existing kde system I've built a new one
6 > > from scratch in spare disk partitions, choosing the plasma profile
7 > > and the kde overlay, and using openrc. My frameworks are at version
8 > > 5.14.0 and kde- plasma is at 5.4.3.
9 > >
10 > > I did have a bit of trouble getting sddm to run at first, but after
11 > > prowling around the Web for a while I got it to work without problem.
12 > > Sorry I can't remember now what I did. It's at version 0.12.0-r1 here.
13 >
14 > After trying to start /etc/init.d/xdm and inspect sddm.log file the
15 > /var/lib/sddm directory was missing. Created directory and sddm now
16 > starts.
17
18 Hm. That doesn't sound familiar. Anyway, glad it's working now.
19
20 --
21 Rgds
22 Peter