Ken Moffat wrote:
Just anecdotal comments - I have been ensuring that all my currently-maintained systems are updated to firefox-45. On my first test box, where I had so much fun with kde4, startkde no longer works. I can (happily) live with that. But on an older system on the same box, using kf5, startkde worked and let me in - so I left it building, and a kf5 (or plasma) screen lock came up - that would NOT let me login, I had to reboot.
I did have that too. Did you include PAM and rebuild shadow? I did and found that I needed the files /etc/pam.d/kde and /etc/pam.d/kde-np in kde-workspace. After a reboot, the screen lock worked OK.
Now, on my old machine which is now mostly reserved for processing photos, the most-recent build (June last year - yes, I know, I should have replaced that by now) which has been happily letting me login via sddm for all these months suddenly decided that neither ken's nor lfs's passwords were correct. So root changed ken's password, but that made not the slightlest difference. And a quick check shows that the system is not full (anyway, /tmp is a tmpfs). So, just when I was almsot getting used to graphical logins, I think I might be heading back to 'startx'. Ain't life grand ?
Personally I like startx because we do so much changing that I don't want to be limited during boot. I only use a DM for testing.
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