Latest Pacman Updates Break SDDM

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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I received three text messages from users that reported SDDM is broken when they did sudo pacman -Syu. Right before SDDM is displayed the screen flashes a few times, but their SDDM login is never displayed.

So, I updated with pacman and the same thing happened to me.

I had the users revert to before they updated via timeshift which fixed their problem. I did the same and no issues.

I narrowed down the issue to the following updates:

extra/broot 1.30.2-1 1.31.0-1 0.01 MiB
endeavouros/eos-apps-info 23-6 23-7 0.02 MiB
endeavouros/eos-bash-shared 23.30-1 23.31-1 0.00 MiB
endeavouros/eos-rankmirrors 2.25-1 2.26-1 0.00 MiB
multilib/lib32-mesa 1:23.3.1-1 1:23.3.2-1 -0.04 MiB
extra/libtraceevent 1:1.7.3-1 1:1.8.1-1 0.00 MiB
extra/mesa 1:23.3.1-1 1:23.3.2-1 0.05 MiB
extra/nodejs 21.4.0-2 21.5.0-1 0.25 MiB
endeavouros/nvidia-hook 1.3-1 1.5-1 0.00 MiB
extra/opencl-clover-mesa 1:23.3.1-1 1:23.3.2-1 0.02 MiB
extra/opencl-rusticl-mesa 1:23.3.1-1 1:23.3.2-1 0.01 MiB
extra/openmpi 4.1.5-5 4.1.6-1 0.00 MiB
extra/postgresql-libs 16.1-3 16.1-4 0.00 MiB
extra/python-fastjsonschema 2.19.0-1 2.19.1-1 0.00 MiB
extra/python-pycryptodome 3.19.0-1 3.19.1-1 0.02 MiB
extra/thunar 4.18.9-1 4.18.10-1 0.00 MiB
extra/timeshift 23.12.1-1 23.12.2-1 0.00 MiB

Anyone else have an issue with SDDM not being displayed after updating?

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I see you have also updated mesa. Read here:

A few users have identified a Mesa error.

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it is actually intel:

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