# service sddm status
● sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; enabled; vendor preset:
enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2015-08-30 14:00:46 CEST; 13s ago
Docs: man:sddm(1)
man:sddm.conf(5)
Process: 8966 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ "$(cat
/etc/X11/default-display-manager
2>/dev/null)" = "/usr/bin/sddm" ] (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 8970 (sddm)
CGroup: /system.slice/sddm.service
├─8970 /usr/bin/sddm
└─8974 /usr/bin/X :1 -auth /var/run/sddm/:1 -nolisten tcp
-background none -
noreset vt7
Aug 30 14:00:47 wilma sddm[8970]: Socket server starting...
Aug 30 14:00:47 wilma sddm[8970]: Socket server started.
Aug 30 14:00:47 wilma sddm[8970]: Greeter starting...
Aug 30 14:00:47 wilma sddm-helper[8986]: [PAM] Starting...
Aug 30 14:00:47 wilma sddm-helper[8986]: [PAM] Authenticating...
Aug 30 14:00:47 wilma sddm-helper[8986]: [PAM] returning.
Aug 30 14:00:47 wilma sddm-helper[8986]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session):
session
opened for user sddm by (uid=0)
Aug 30 14:00:47 wilma sddm[8970]: Greeter session started successfully
Aug 30 14:00:47 wilma sddm[8970]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 2
Aug 30 14:00:47 wilma sddm[8970]: Greeter stopped.
I think this may partly be connected:
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/371[1]
After I manually created
drwxr-xr-x 6 sddm sddm 4096 Aug 30 14:06 sddm
sddm starts.
Btw. /var/log/sddm.log is created but doesn't seem to receive any output ...
Thank you for your work!
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[1] https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/371
