At first Instead of my SDDM I would just see an after image of what was last displayed on screen. But if I typed in my password and pressed enter, it would let me in just fine. Then after following some suggestions from users in r/Kubuntu I’ve made a bit of progress. Now when I boot up my computer instead of the SDDM being invisible, it now doesn’t load at all, from there I switch to tty3 then back to tty2 and then log in through the terminal. After that I run startplasma-wayland and then I have access to my desktop. The post where all this went down - https://www.reddit.com/r/Kubuntu/comments/1nvreuo/sddm_not_rendering/
Does anyone know a fix? I would like to be able to see my login screen.
Here’s my specs in case that would help - https://i.imgur.com/XtC43zw.png
And here’s my journalctl output after booting and launching plasma - https://pastebin.com/nnGsWebd
Linux is not a car. If i could reinstall a broken car i would do it instead burying money and time in it.
If you could only ever use perfectly equal analogies, you could never use them.
If I have a car and the door doesn’t open, I can sell it for 2900 and buy the same model of similarely used car for 3200. In this case you lose some money.
Reinstalling an OS loses you some time.
Some people leave everything on default and then reinstalling would be quick. Or they use dotfiles or nix like systems to keep track of the state.
Others like me have so many untracked changes in / it would take a week (if not a month) of fulltime work to reinstall and set everything up as it was before. Home is definitely not the blocker here. You know how much money I make if I keep working during that week?
I know because I wrote a tool that can do a remote diff of 2 systems and I ran it on my up to date arch and a new arch with the same packages installed.
Multiple hundreds of files had a diff. I took a quick glance at a couple to sanitycheck whether my tool worked but gave up on manually evaluating all of those to see whether I need/want these changes or not.
Thats why I’ve been cloning the same disk over to new computers for the last 10 years.
So yeah, in the sense of what you lose if you follow the reinstall suggestion it can be similar to the buy new car suggestion. Except aparently not for you.
You use the same linux install (cloned) for a decade? Thats wild. I just install and document my changes so its not much to do for a reinstall. So for some it works, for some not. OP might be like me, thus my answer has a right to exist! Maybe you could stop correcting others for being different.
Yep. And it still works without hickups. It lived on 2 desktops and 2 laptops now. Rolling releases are great, I update weekly.
With debian based stuff, I reinstalled twice a year because back then every dist upgrade would break my setup and it became completely unusable if it booted at all.
This goes both ways. In your initial comment you took a onesided position and all I wanted was to show the other side. I don’t mean to imply that “my” side is the only one. Sorry if it came of that way.
Cheers mate!