Bug: Installing Wine staging changes permissions for /var/lib/sddm/.config

anon89812132 · 21 May 2022 17:52

You can see the PKGBUILD from Arch Linux (as Manjaro inherits it from there) and has nothing to change the permissions on that sddm folder

github.com

archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/packages/wine-staging/trunk/PKGBUILD

# Maintainer: Felix Yan <felixonmars@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com>
# Contributor: Jan "heftig" Steffens <jan.steffens@gmail.com>
# Contributor: Eduardo Romero <eduardo@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: Giovanni Scafora <giovanni@archlinux.org>

pkgname=wine-staging
pkgver=8.8
pkgrel=1

_pkgbasever=${pkgver/rc/-rc}
_winever=$_pkgbasever
#_winever=${_pkgbasever%.*}

source=(https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.x/wine-$_winever.tar.xz{,.sign}
        "https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/archive/v$_pkgbasever/wine-staging-v$_pkgbasever.tar.gz"
        30-win32-aliases.conf
        wine-binfmt.conf)
sha512sums=('e56427680c940970153b1996841c70d540a0a2572ab980c4d77cf7225efd7c26c91ef9b0548b73d51e78afa55a7e324d5d93f6211f5eb5d5698ab9ff421e26de'
            'SKIP'

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The issue was mentioned on the forum a couple of times already and other platforms/forums too:

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/j80skf/sddm_error_configuration_file/

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/555936/configuration-file-var-lib-sddm-config-sddm-greeterrc-not-writable-is-displa

And the issue was addressed upstream quite some time ago already.