GNU bug report logs - #35324
SDDM shows black screen instead of login prompt

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato <at> posteo.de>

Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:13:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>

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bug#35324; Package guix. (Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:13:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Acknowledgement sent to Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato <at> posteo.de>:
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From: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato <at> posteo.de>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: SDDM shows black screen instead of login prompt
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 18:11:55 +0200
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Hello Guix,

As already mentioned on IRC SDDM does not work for me.

This is what I tried:

$ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -snapshot -m 6G $(guix system vm-image --image-size=24G config.scm)

After booting I get a black screen instead of a greeter.  I have
attached the config.scm, Xorg.log, and sddm.log.

This is on Guix System (commit: 5069bae) on x86_64.

Regards,

Diego

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Reply sent to Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>:
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Notification sent to Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato <at> posteo.de>:
bug acknowledged by developer. (Sat, 21 Mar 2020 19:50:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato <at> posteo.de>, 35324-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35324: SDDM shows black screen instead of login prompt
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 20:49:51 +0100
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Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato <at> posteo.de> writes:

> Hello Guix,
>
> As already mentioned on IRC SDDM does not work for me.
>
> This is what I tried:
>
> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -snapshot -m 6G $(guix system vm-image --image-size=24G config.scm)
>
> After booting I get a black screen instead of a greeter.  I have
> attached the config.scm, Xorg.log, and sddm.log.

I believe this issue has been fixed, please reopen if you still
experience problems.  Thanks!
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From: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato <at> posteo.de>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 35324 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35324: SDDM shows black screen instead of login prompt
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2020 18:41:30 +0200
Hi Marius,

Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> writes:

> Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato <at> posteo.de> writes:
>
>> Hello Guix,
>>
>> As already mentioned on IRC SDDM does not work for me.
>>
>> This is what I tried:
>>
>> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -snapshot -m 6G $(guix system vm-image --image-size=24G config.scm)
>>
>> After booting I get a black screen instead of a greeter.  I have
>> attached the config.scm, Xorg.log, and sddm.log.
>
> I believe this issue has been fixed, please reopen if you still
> experience problems.  Thanks!

If I try what I described in my original bug report I still (commit
f2d97d5) get a black screen.  If I run

  $(guix system vm config.scm) -m 6G -enable-kvm

instead it works as expected (I get a login screen).  So it looks like
some runtime dependency doesn't make it into the vm-image.

This issue seems limited to this special case (no one else has since
complained about it) so I'll leave this closed.

Regards,

Diego




bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sun, 03 May 2020 11:24:05 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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