Freshly Installed Manjaro KDE Plasma throws SDDM error

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Hi
Been using Manjaro from quite a while and recently I wanted to try out a freshly installed one, so I reinstalled and set it up.
Finally when I was setting up My SDDM it threw up some errors first time I have ever seen.
Here are the errors.

The current theme cannot be loaded due to the errors below, please selec? another theme
file:///usr/share/sddm/themes/Dracula/Main.qml:28:1: module"org.kde-plasma.extras-i5 installed file:///usr/share/sddm/themes/Dracula/Main.qml:27:1: module "org.kde-plasma.component"S not installed file:///usr/share/sddm/themes/Dracula/Main.qml:26:1: module "org.kde.plasma.core is na1 installed file:///usr/share/sddm/themes/Dracula/Main.qml:28:1: module "org.kde-plasma.extres"is not installed file:///usr/share/sddm/themes/Dracula/Main.qml:27:1: module “org.kdeplasma.components” not installed

I dont know what mistake im doing but i tried setting it up from the system settings.
Please help me resolve this issue.
Thank you!

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You theme is incompatible with Plasma 6 / Qt6

Use a compatible theme.

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Hi @IAmLaura, and welcome!

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This will just cause the terminal output to be in English, making it easier to understand and debug.

Then, the error states that the theme cannot be read/accessed, for whichever reason.

I recommend removing said configuration and re-installing it.

First, remove the theme:

sudo rm --force --recursive /usr/share/sddm/themes/Dracula

And then reinstall it from the System settings:

https://i.imgur.com/2vHsuwj.png

This will only list compatible themes that can be installed, as @linux-aarhus mentioned.

Hope it helps!

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Ohh…whys it with any theme I install?

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Hey @Mirdarthos
Uhm So sorry for this uhm error from my side of properly formatting the texts and commands…I was just in like a frustrated mood i guess coz i reinstalled Manjaro thinking it was my mistake.
I did the steps u mentioned but its throwing up the same error for every other SDDM theme except the default

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Please don’t use made-up abbreviations. This is an online internet forum, not a text/SMS support group where txt spk is aceptible.

That still sounds the same. Ensure your system is up-to-date before trying the customizations:

pamac upgrade --no-aur && pamac upgrade --aur --devel || echo -e '\033[0;91mThere was an error upgrading the system. AUR packages not upgraded.\e[0m'

This will update your system and ONLY if that was successful update any AUR packages.

a Reminder: While use of the AUR is possible, it’s neither recommended nor supported.

I recommend pamac instead of pacman, especially for newcomers as pamac was developed by Manajaro (developers) for Manjaro and the target audience is Manjaro users, which includes a whole lot of newcomers and for who pamac tends to make more sense.

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So sorry Again @Mirdarthos.
I performed the above steps you told. The system is up to date.

pamac upgrade --no-aur && pamac upgrade --aur --devel || echo -e

It Came back with this:

pamac upgrade --no-aur && pamac upgrade --aur --devel || echo -e                           INT ✘ 
Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
Running post-transaction hooks...                                                                             
Nothing to do.                                                                                                
Transaction successfully finished.
Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
Refreshing AUR...                                                                                             
Nothing to do.                                                                                                
Transaction successfully finished.

So whats the issue here?

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If I have to think quickly, I’d say the errors were different but you missed it…

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Im Sorry, I didnt get you?

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What theme package did you install?
Where does the (apparently incompatible) Dracula theme come from?

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I said:

If my (quick) thinking is correct, the error from before is different from the errors after the update. But I realize we could be dealing with a communications barrier.

So my next question is, how exactly did you install the new theme after deleting the previous one.

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Ohhhh, Actually this machine is running a freshly installed Manjaro.
And to answer ur question…I installed the theme by:
System settings<Colors and themes<Login screen(SDDM)<3 dots<Get new.
Hope it answers ur question.

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I just installed it like that, and I have not 1 single problem with it:

https://i.imgur.com/ElhpLv4.png

So, I still have no idea what the problem is. Still looks like the incorrect theme version. But provide the new error, please.

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Let me apply a different theme and sent in the error as a picture perhaps.

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Ant-Dracula sddm by eliverlara
or
Dracula SDDM Plasma 6 by eliverlara

I installed the latter - because Plasma 6 was explicitly mentioned - and it works.

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I installed the first one you told.

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The errors are shown as below:

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… which is apparently
or rather: obviously
not compatible with plasma 6

But:
I’ll try that one as well, expecting it to fail

… and it did - in the same way as yours
choose a different theme - this one is not compatible

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Use the other theme, obviously.

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Hi @Nachlese
I dont know whats wrong but literally all of them are failing and the fact that none of of the compatible is actually visible to me.