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

  • Successful_Try543@feddit.org
    2·
    24 hours ago

    Your journal output might be too curated, I don’t see anything that would keep the display manager from starting up.

    The only suspicious entry I’ve found was #185:

    sddm[1596]: Failed to read display number from pipe

    FWIW, it could be GPU related, but that really just is a wild guess.

    Skimming search results onto the above error message seems to second your idea.

      • RubberDuckyDJ@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
        1·
        16 hours ago

        The issue is I have no idea what any of these errors mean. I’m pretty new to desktop Linux so I’ve just been researching the errors one by one but so far, no dice.

        • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
          1·
          13 hours ago

          Show us! The journalctl output was too restricted, we need to see all of it - at least for the significant timeframe.