#996503 sddm fails to start

Package:
sddm
Source:
sddm
Description:
modern display manager for X11
Submitter:
mheyes
Date:
2021-10-14 20:18:03 UTC
Severity:
important
#996503#5
Date:
2021-10-14 20:14:08 UTC
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To:
Dear Maintainer,

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Noticed since upgrade of nvidia-driver v.470.74-1. SDDM crashes, cannot
login as usual. Messages in /var/log/message shows:

nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver, major device number 237.
sddm[996]: Error from greeter session: "Process crashed"
sddm[996]: Auth: sddm-helper crashed (exit code 15)
sddm[996]: Error from greeter session: "Process crashed"
sddm[996]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 15

Stopping sddm and using startx to start X session works fine.

Purging nvidia-driver and using nouveau results in sddm starting as
usual.

Using gdm3 instead of sddm works properly.







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