Description of problem: I tested using sddm on Wayland using the Weston compositor from sddm-wayland-generic-0.19.0^git20220224.5ad9f19-2.fc36.noarch in a Fedora 36 KDE Plasma installation. sddm appeared for less than a second. The screen went black except for the mouse cursor which I could still move around. I couldn't use sddm to log in to Plasma as a result. I ran systemctl restart sddm in a VT which didn't get sddm to appear. The journal showed that sddm-greeter (or sddm-helper) had crashed. Feb 26 22:39:06 polkitd[913]: Operator of unix-process:1225:26373 successfully authenticated as unix-user:matt to gain TEMPORARY authorization for action org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units for system-bus-name::1.38 [systemctl restart sddm] (owned by unix-user:matt) Feb 26 22:39:06 systemd[1]: Stopping sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager... Feb 26 22:39:06 sddm[980]: Signal received: SIGTERM Feb 26 22:39:06 sddm-helper[985]: Signal received: SIGTERM Feb 26 22:39:11 sddm-greeter[1082]: Socket error: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" Feb 26 22:39:11 sddm[980]: Error from greeter session: "Process crashed" Feb 26 22:39:11 audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=sddm comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' Feb 26 22:39:11 audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=sddm comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' Feb 26 22:39:11 sddm[980]: Auth: sddm-helper (--socket /tmp/sddm-auth5dc0fba5-e788-4c45-8632-20a358c5c857 --id 2 --start /usr/bin/sddm-greeter --socket /tmp/sddm--dOIFCx --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze --user sddm --display-server weston --shell=fullscreen-shell.so --greeter) crashed (exit code 1) Feb 26 22:39:11 polkitd[913]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:1225:26373 (system bus name :1.39, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_CA.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus) Feb 26 22:39:11 sddm[980]: Error from greeter session: "Process crashed" Feb 26 22:39:11 sddm[980]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 9 Feb 26 22:39:11 systemd-logind[866]: Session c1 logged out. Waiting for processes to exit. Feb 26 22:39:11 systemd[1]: sddm.service: Deactivated successfully. Feb 26 22:39:11 systemd[1]: Stopped sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager. Feb 26 22:39:11 systemd[1]: Started sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager. Feb 26 22:39:11 audit[1244]: USER_AUTH pid=1244 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=PAM:authentication grantors=pam_permit acct="sddm" exe="/usr/libexec/sddm-helper" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' Feb 26 22:39:11 audit[1244]: USER_ACCT pid=1244 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=PAM:accounting grantors=pam_permit acct="sddm" exe="/usr/libexec/sddm-helper" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' Feb 26 22:39:11 audit[1244]: CRED_ACQ pid=1244 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=PAM:setcred grantors=pam_permit acct="sddm" exe="/usr/libexec/sddm-helper" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' Feb 26 22:39:11 sddm-helper[1244]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm(uid=989) by matt(uid=0) Feb 26 22:39:11 systemd-logind[866]: New session c2 of user sddm. Feb 26 22:39:11 systemd[1]: Started session-c2.scope - Session c2 of User sddm. Feb 26 22:39:11 audit[1244]: USER_START pid=1244 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=PAM:session_open grantors=pam_unix,pam_systemd acct="sddm" exe="/usr/libexec/sddm-helper" hostname=localhost.localdomain addr=? terminal=/dev/tty3 res=success' Feb 26 22:39:11 sddm-helper[1244]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session closed for user sddm Feb 26 22:39:11 audit[1244]: USER_END pid=1244 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=PAM:session_close grantors=pam_unix,pam_systemd acct="sddm" exe="/usr/libexec/sddm-helper" hostname=localhost.localdomain addr=? terminal=/dev/tty3 res=success' Feb 26 22:39:11 audit[1244]: CRED_DISP pid=1244 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=PAM:setcred grantors=pam_permit acct="sddm" exe="/usr/libexec/sddm-helper" hostname=localhost.localdomain addr=? terminal=/dev/tty3 res=success' Feb 26 22:39:11 systemd[1]: session-c2.scope: Deactivated successfully. Feb 26 22:39:11 sddm[1242]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 3 No core dump for the sddm-greeter crash was shown in coredumpctl. I don't know if that crash was the reason for the initial black screen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sddm-wayland-generic-0.19.0^git20220224.5ad9f19-2.fc36.noarch plasma-desktop-5.24.2-1.fc36.x86_64 qt5-qtbase-5.15.2-33.fc36.x86_64 weston-8.0.0-10.fc36.x86_64 How reproducible: The sddm black screen happened on 2/2 boots. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot a Fedora 36 KDE Plasma installation updated to 2022-2-26 with updates-testing enabled. 2. Log in to Plasma 5.24.2 on Wayland 3. Start Konsole 4. Switch to using sddm-wayland-generic-0.19.0^git20220224.5ad9f19-2.fc36.noarch If sddm-wayland-plasma is installed, sudo dnf swap sddm-wayland-plasma sddm-wayland-generic If sddm-x11 is installed, sudo dnf swap sddm-x11 sddm-wayland-generic 5. Reboot Actual results: Black screen with sddm on Wayland using the Weston compositor Expected results: sddm would function normally. Additional info:
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I tested using sddm-wayland-generic-0.19.0^git20230404.e652433-1.fc38.noarch with weston-11.0.1-2.fc38.x86_64 in a Fedora 38 KDE Plasma installation with sudo dnf swap sddm-wayland-plasma sddm-wayland-generic then rebooting. sddm appeared for less than a second followed by the virtual keyboard for a bit. The screen was black indefinitely after that. I didn't see the sddm-helper crash in the journal.