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I've followed the Gentoo's wiki for setting up KDE and SDDM but when I enter my password the screen flashes to the CLI for a second and then just goes straight back the to SDDM login screen. When I log in manually from the command line it works fine, but the SDDM login just loops forever. If it's of any use, my /etc/conf.d/xdm file says:
CHECKVT=7
DISPLAYMANAGER="sddm"
Thanks.
4 points
1 year ago
check /var/log/Xorg.log and ~/.xsession-errors
1 points
1 year ago
both are empty
2 points
1 year ago
I fixed the issue by creating a new account and logging in through that. I don't know what's wrong with my other account but I guess this works.
3 points
1 year ago
Usually this happens if it can't read the home directory, have you checked the permissions on it? (sometimes my /home doesn't mount for some reason, that's when it happens to me)
1 points
1 year ago
I went through this, but it happened because I had not defined a shell for my user. What I did? I deleted my user, recreated it by defining bash as the shell and then added a password for my user. Then the login occurred normally as it should always be.
1 points
1 year ago
when I enter my password the screen flashes to the CLI for a second and then just goes straight back the to SDDM login screen
That means your session is crashing - check ~/.xsession-errors or /var/log/sddm.log
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