Bug#801106: sddm still fails to start

2015-10-30 Thread John DeVito
I am also having this issue after performing all available Stretch updates on 27 Oct 2015 and I figured I would chime in with my observations in the event that it might be helpful. Looking through the Xorg.0.log file I see that the /run/dbus directory was completely missing. I verified this

Bug#801106: sddm still fails to start

2015-10-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/10/15 06:45 PM, Diederik de Haas wrote: On Wednesday 28 October 2015 17:13:14 Gary Dale wrote: "Failed to bring up the login screen" is as it says. The screen gets switched into graphical mode (blank) but nothing ever displays on it. I can bring up a TTY using an alt-Fkey combination but

Bug#801106: sddm still fails to start

2015-10-28 Thread Gary Dale
Package: sddm Version: 0.12.0-4 Followup-For: Bug #801106 Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I restarted my system this morning but it failed to bring up a login screen * What exactly did you do

Bug#801106: sddm still fails to start

2015-10-28 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hi! Are you using Plymouth? If so, I might have resolved this issue already (not yet uploaded to the archive). Please try applying this patch to the /lib/systemd/system/sddm.service file: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-kde/kde-std/sddm.git/commit/?id=b50b826a4809b85270d5adc026b6d28fcdbb47c5

Bug#801106: sddm still fails to start

2015-10-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/10/15 02:56 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: Hi! Are you using Plymouth? If so, I might have resolved this issue already (not yet uploaded to the archive). Please try applying this patch to the /lib/systemd/system/sddm.service file:

Bug#801106: sddm still fails to start

2015-10-28 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Wednesday 28 October 2015 17:13:14 Gary Dale wrote: > "Failed to bring up the login screen" is as it says. The screen gets > switched into graphical mode (blank) but nothing ever displays on it. I > can bring up a TTY using an alt-Fkey combination but nothing graphical. Have you checked