On 14/10/2017 11:55, Arve Barsnes wrote: > On 14 October 2017 at 08:37, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com > <mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > A quick heads-up to anyone who like me uses sddm on a plain openrc box > with USE="-elogind -systemd" and upgrades to sddm-0.16.0 (recently > released) > > That combination does not work. The xdm service starts, sddm launches, > logs a message that doesn't look too ominous and then does ... nothing. > No sddm, No X-Server. Very confusing, took me a while to solve. > > > That's interesting. This combination works just fine here. Installed > 0.16.0 Wednesday, rebooted Thursday, sddm worked as normal. > USE="consolekit pam -elogind -systemd"
The gentoo bug shows that the problem is a function defined in elogind that should also be in consolekit but isn't. So obviously there's something additional going on. Your USE for sddm is "-elogind" true enough, do you maybe have elgind installed anyway for some other reason? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com