At first Instead of my SDDM I would just see an after image of what was last displayed on screen. But if I typed in my password and pressed enter, it would let me in just fine. Then after following some suggestions from users in r/Kubuntu I’ve made a bit of progress. Now when I boot up my computer instead of the SDDM being invisible, it now doesn’t load at all, from there I switch to tty3 then back to tty2 and then log in through the terminal. After that I run startplasma-wayland and then I have access to my desktop. The post where all this went down - https://www.reddit.com/r/Kubuntu/comments/1nvreuo/sddm_not_rendering/
Does anyone know a fix? I would like to be able to see my login screen.
Here’s my specs in case that would help - https://i.imgur.com/XtC43zw.png
And here’s my journalctl output after booting and launching plasma - https://pastebin.com/nnGsWebd
try updating your packages and see if that helps, also can you do a
systemctl status sddmhere’s the output https://pastebin.com/mF9h0x9e
I think this might have something to do with the issue but I’m not sure
sddm-helper[1790]: Failed to write utmpx: No such file or directory lines 1-25/25 (END)No, this error is harmless. There is a Debian bugreport to remove even logging that error.
Is this the sddm status you’ve posted after starting it manually?
the status on the sddm is that it is working but the screen is completely black. Like i can type in my password and press enter and then it takes me to the desktop but I just can’t see it.