Screen goes black after login

Olli · 23 July 2023 16:39

please check this

Fails non-descriptively when stuff sourced by `sddm-helper` fails.

opened 01:31AM - 28 Dec 22 UTC

I've just spent couple of hours trying to figure out why my relatively fresh set…up involving stock sddm and `plasma-meta` on archlinux leads to black screen when pressing "login" in sddm, both for x11 and wayland session. Turns out, my `.zprofile` was failing with `File not found`, which was sourced along the way by `sddm-helper`, failing fast, logging only ``` Auth: sddm-helper exited with 1. ``` It would have been great to either see some more context as to what was failing, or for sddm to ignore errors when indirectly sourcing shell files.

it was also reported in the stable update thread. your’s sound very similar to this problem