Every time i try to log in specifically with my main user with plasma wayland, the screen goes black for a bit longer than usual, and im greeted by a black screen with an underscore in the top left corner. Im able to log into plasma wayland just fine with a different user, and plasma X11 with my main user, but specifically plasma wayland on my main user does not work. I have resorted to using a horrendous bandaid fix for the past couple of days by typing dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland into a tty because ive been quaking in my boots at the thought of making a post on here. Any ideas?
Heads up! Im incredibly new to this operating system, ive only used it for about a month or so, i might ask for elaboration on something that seems like a very simple task to do, im sorry in advance!
Can you give us a little more information about your system? The below should do it.
inxi -Gaz
I’m going to assume you’re fully updated on your drivers (again assuming nVidia..) but if there’s anything else you can let us know, - such as whether you’ve tried using a fallback kernel, always good to know!
Drivers from arch repos do not support your card anymore. Please look for respective announcement and proceed accordingly. You need to install dkms drivers from AUR.
If this is not the case, I am having all sort of glitches and bugs with plasma wayland session on verity of hardware. So it is as expected.
Either way, i installed nvidia-470xx-dkms, it of course didnt do much, presumably because i didnt install half of what you asked me to. Thank you for your patience!
Downgraded ddcutil down to 2.2.3, and then 2.0.0 just to be sure, but sadly still nothing
Ill upgrade it back to 2.2.5, as it seems unrelated and might maybe possibly potentially cause issues in the future. Thank you for the suggestion though!
This is a bit hard to read. Please edit your post, select all the text, delete it, then post it paste it again from the terminal. This time when you paste it in the site’s post editor, select all the text, and click the button indicate below.
If it only shows “1000”, please post the output of:
ls /run/user/1000
By the way, ls just lists files in a folder.
And for the earlier text I asked you to paste in sddm.conf, it is essential because SDDM is your login screen. I’m surprised you even had a login screen. At least, I am assuming you have one.
Seems you’re missing wayland-0. It should be automatically created when you log into a Wayland session. List the same files again, but this time in this way:
la /run/user/1000
Also, since editing the sddm.conf file, have you rebooted?
You should be able to run the following, log in, then reboot and log in normally in a KDE Wayland session. That is, assuming the output of the above lists your username as the owner. If not, let us know.
Sorry but la? my terminal doesnt recognize that command for some reason. I of course, in my infinite wisdom, blindly ran the other command anyway, because i didnt want to ask very small questions back and forth. Rebooted my computer and couldnt log into plasma wayland. I then tried to log into plasma X11 to report back, my computer froze on the splash screen. I forced a shutdown by holding the power button, rebooted to the file system check on boot failing? Uh oh! I have royally messed something up! I press enter on the screen showed in the second image (after having rebooted a couple of times, if thats any relevant), seemed to greet me like normal with the “Welcome to EndeavourOS!” splash, and then promptly bluescreened on me, as shown in the first image. Usually less intense weird behaviour like this seems to randomly go away after leaving my computer without power for 40 minutes or so, but im not sure if thats whats going on here. I understand if this is no longer in your area of expertise, thanks for the help though!
