#800158 sddm: "failsafe" session fails

Package:
sddm
Source:
sddm
Description:
modern display manager for X11
Submitter:
Ralf Jung
Date:
2026-10-13 02:11:06 UTC
Severity:
normal
#800158#5
Date:
2015-09-27 14:19:49 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

SDDM offers a "failsafe" session. Selecting that session and logging in makes SDDM freeze.
(So, rather ironically, "failsafe" fails.)

The log says:

  Invalid session "/usr/share/xsessions/failsafe.desktop"

And indeed no such file exists, nor could I find a file with that name anywhere with apt-file.
I can't tell why SDDM even offers that session.

Kind regards,
Ralf
#800158#10
Date:
2026-10-13 02:09:25 UTC
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Version: 0.13.0-1

The synthetic Failsafe session entry was removed upstream by commit
55837107724c6a2029b4ed534b500084f752b540, included in upstream
0.13.0 and Debian 0.13.0-1.

Closing with the historical fixed version.

Regards,
Boyuan Yang