I am unable to "switch user" from Plasma session after upgrading to sddm 0.17 - selecting "new session" displays lock screen for current session instead of displaying the greeter and starting a new session. It took a bit of digging, but it seems that this is a regression introduced by sddm 0.17 - downgrading to 0.15 solves the problem. I've tracked the problem to the following dbus call: $ dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.DisplayManager /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0 org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.Seat.SwitchToGreeter On sddm 0.15 I get the following output (plus successful switch to a new session): method return time=1516056773.188761 sender=:1.561 -> destination=:1.583 serial=21 reply_serial=2 On sddm 0.17 I get the following error output: Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject: No such object path '/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0' $ emerge --info Portage 2.3.13 (python 2.7.14-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-6.4.0, glibc-2.25-r9, 4.9.75-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.9.75-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i3-6100_CPU_@_3.70GHz-with-gentoo-2.4.1 KiB Mem: 16314560 total, 727976 free KiB Swap: 16775164 total, 16755468 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 09:15:01 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I also confirm this bug with sddm 0.17.0-r1
Same issue here, downgrading to 0.15 also solved my problem.
Created attachment 523832 [details, diff] sddm-0.17.0-switchToGreeter.patch The attached patch fixes the issue for me. Without logind, sddm's SeatManager object was creating its only seat ("seat0") too early, so the DisplayManager would never know about it and the dbus object for it wasn't created. The patch defers seat initialization until the DisplayManager has been connected.
I tested the patch. It works for me. Thanks Alexander. One odd thing: I am not sure if it's related nor relevant, but after re-emerging sddm with the patch, restarting xdm (service xdm restart) was not enough: I had a black screen. But after rebooting the whole computer it worked OK.
thanks Alexander, did you already submit your patch upstream?
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=8e892dae48e6e695e7e809748a94d67e70be6c2f commit 8e892dae48e6e695e7e809748a94d67e70be6c2f Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-04-05 15:53:03 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-04-05 15:54:47 +0000 x11-misc/sddm: Fix SwitchToGreeter error Thanks-to: Alexander Miller <alex.miller@gmx.de> Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/644718 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.28, Repoman-2.3.9 .../sddm/files/sddm-0.17.0-switchtogreeter.patch | 54 ++++++++++++++ x11-misc/sddm/sddm-0.17.0-r2.ebuild | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 137 insertions(+)}
Arches, please stabilise.
amd64 stable
x86 stable, closing
It seems that this patch introduces a new bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655912
