Today after installing 51 updates my system halts the boot process with the message “Failed to start SDDM”. These updates happened after briefly switching from branche stable to unstable (to update Ardour only). After switching back to stable pamac offered the 51 updates, which I probably should have ignored(?).
Anyway, I can ctrl-sh-F2 to Terminal and check sddm status or start up via ‘systemctl start sddm.service’. This fails:
× sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2022-11-09 20:35:26 CET; 6min ago
Duration: 1ms
Docs: man:sddm(1)
man:sddm.conf(5)
Process: 1124 ExecStart=/usr/bin/sddm (code=exited, status=127)
Main PID: 1124 (code=exited, status=127)
CPU: 1ms
nov 09 20:35:26 manja systemd[1]: sddm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
nov 09 20:35:26 manja systemd[1]: Stopped Simple Desktop Display Manager.
nov 09 20:35:26 manja systemd[1]: sddm.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
nov 09 20:35:26 manja systemd[1]: sddm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
nov 09 20:35:26 manja systemd[1]: Failed to start Simple Desktop Display Manager.
nov 09 20:35:43 manja systemd[1]: sddm.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
nov 09 20:35:43 manja systemd[1]: sddm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
nov 09 20:35:43 manja systemd[1]: Failed to start Simple Desktop Display Manager.
and
nov 09 20:34:50 manja systemd[1]: Started Simple Desktop Display Manager.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit sddm.service has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
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░░ A start job for unit sddm.service has finished successfully.
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░░ The job identifier is 132.
nov 09 20:34:50 manja sddm[523]: /usr/bin/sddm: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
nov 09 20:34:50 manja systemd[1]: sddm.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
░░ Subject: Unit process exited
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
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░░ A start job for unit sddm.service has finished with a failure.
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░░ The job identifier is 2346 and the job result is failed.
kernel is 5.15.77.2 which may be the kernel from the unstable branch.
I tried to use Timeshift to roll back to just before the fatal updates. That stops with an error that
rsync error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.1 cannot open shared object filed: no such file or directory
I really could use some help!