After a fresh installation of x11-misc/sddm, and starting it through systemd service file, there is a pop-up complaining "/var/lib/sddm/.config/sddm-greeterrc" is not writable. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fresh install of x11-misc/sddm (/var/lib/sddm must not already exist) 2. systemctl start sddm.service Actual Results: Pop up with: Configuration file "/var/lib/sddm/.config/sddm-greeterrc" not writable. Please contact your system administrator. sddm continues to work fine after "OK" is pressed. Expected Results: Regular startup of sddm without pop=up window. ls /var/lib/sddm/.config -al total 20 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 31 23:00 . drwxr-xr-x 5 sddm sddm 4096 Jan 31 23:00 .. -rw------- 1 sddm sddm 4299 Jan 31 23:00 kdeglobals -rw------- 1 sddm sddm 21 Jan 31 23:00 plasmarc The .config file is owned by root. As a solution/workaround I ran: chmod -R sddm:sddm /var/lib/sddm Probably there is an error of ownership in the ebauild?