On Sunday, July 22, 2018 11:50:51 PM CEST Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:42:32PM +0200, inkbottle wrote: > > As some of you already know, since *completely uneventful* upgrade of > > Friday, July 20, 2018, "sddm" does not start automatically anymore, > > whether because something goes wrong at some point or because it doesn't > > start at all, meaning it is not even invoked in the first place, that I > > know not ;) > > > > Anyway, I'm not so unfortunate, because "startx", invoked as simple user > > in a "tty" is working fine, and it is my workaround for the present, and > > will be until I can find enough time to deal with it properly, and not > > simply trying to worsen the situation. > > > > So, in my to-do list, first thing is: why should "sddm" start, at all, at > > boot time? > > Are you asking what is the purpose of sddm?
No I was rather meaning, where, during the boot process, it is invoked. From what script, or because of what line in a configuration file somewhere. I mean, by default, Linux, will only start in a "console" sort of thing, no X or any sort of windowing. "So why does it start?" That was the idea. Also, that might differs from one distro to another; and be different today from what it was in some past.
