Session crashes (wayland and x11)

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Hello,

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I have Searched the forum for my issue and found nothing related or helpful
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I have read the the Release Notes and Errata

OpenMandriva Lx version:

25.04 Rome

Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):

KDE, Gnome, Hyprland, i3, sway, qtile, cosmic, niri.

Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):

when i try to login from the sddm, each and every session but awesome crashes. if i login from a tty and then launch the wm it works.

Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):

Hp pavilion with intel i7-11th gen and internal Xe graphics. this problem occurs randomly, but almost all of the time the plasma wayland crashes when i see the desktop.

i can upload the journalctl dump if it is needed.

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after i killed sddm manually and then restarted x11 plasma works.

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You could try to install lightdm and switch over to it.

┌─[wilson@heisenberg] Fri May 23, 12:29:45 [~] 
└─[ <$> dnf search lightdm*
OpenMandriva Rolling - znver1                                       3.6 MB/s | 5.4 MB     00:01    
OpenMandriva Rolling - Extra - znver1                               1.4 MB/s | 1.4 MB     00:01    
OpenMandriva Rolling - Restricted - znver1                           44 kB/s |  37 kB     00:00    
OpenMandriva Rolling - Non-free - znver1                             39 kB/s |  30 kB     00:00    
================================= Name & Summary Matched: lightdm* =================================
lightdm-kde-greeter.znver1 : LightDM KDE Greeter
====================================== Name Matched: lightdm* ======================================
lightdm.znver1 : The Light Display Manager
lightdm-gtk-greeter-common.noarch : Common files for the Light Display Manager
lightdm-gtk3-greeter.znver1 : The Light Display Manager (GTK3 greeter)
==================================== Summary Matched: lightdm* =====================================
lib64lightdm-gobject-devel.znver1 : LightDM client library (development files)
lib64lightdm-gobject1_0.znver1 : LightDM GObject client library
lib64lightdm-qt5-devel.znver1 : LightDM client library (development files)
lib64lightdm-qt5_3_0.znver1 : LightDM Qt5 client library

You may have to manually disable sddm before it will allow you to install lightdm.

sudo systemctl disable sddm
sudo dnf install lightdm
sudo systemctl enable lightdm
reboot

You may need to do a bit more gymnastics to get through that. :slightly_smiling_face:

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changing the greeter isn’t new for me : ) one time tried to move off of gdm but saw that there was no benifit and then just sticked with it. thanks wilson!

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There have been several here who did find a benefit getting off of sddm for anything else.

Some have even installed the latest kernel-6.14.2-server-3omv2590

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i’ll do it, goodbye customization then : ).

i have the latest, but i am sure that the problem was not happening with .13.9 so just used that to be sure.

thanks again wilson, will keep it open incase a dev has an idea on what to go/do/investigate.

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file /usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.conf from install of lightdm-1.32.0-3.x86_64 conflicts with file from package plasma6-sddm-0.21.0-2.x86_64

this happened when i tried to install lightdm

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I was hoping that you would be able to leave it installed, but possibly not.

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so should i just remove it? : )

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I don’t think there is a choice. At least it is easy enough to reinstall it.

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Yes, you should remove plasma6-sddm. Then install lightdm. You can try kde-greeter for lightdm too, but for me it was buggy, not looked as it should. I suggest stay with default lightdm greeter.
And remember - lightdm works only with X11, Wayland session isn’t implemented yet.
After installation do:
sudo systemctl enable lightdm
reboot

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awesome uses xcompmgr. The others use their own compositor. This is a 3D graphics issue. Previous advice given for this issue was to install kernel-server and test to see if your sessions work.

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removed sddm and enabled gdm -since i already installed gnome-. working till now, will report back it it crashes.

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till now works fine. will close it in a week if nothing happens

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Thanks for sticking with this. When you know more, please give some feedback in the testing post for this. If the server kernel works, we can find the issue in the differences.

Testing workaround for sessions crash

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well… i now use gdm. should i go and install the server kernel?

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No, but stating that is part of the feedback for the testing.

If you felt like doing so, sure, but I would not suggest you reinstall SDDM just to test the server kernel.

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i can reinstall it and not use it tho :wink:

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You’re a tester at heart.

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