sddm not starting after upgrade

[Clay Weber]

On Friday, March 20, 2015 07:42:24 PM Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Scarlett Clark <sgclark at kubuntu.org> wrote:
> > Yep, we are aware as I am affected myself and it *NEEDS* to be fixed, I am
> > not in a position where I can
> > reinstall. So in short, it is a priority before release :)
> > Scarlett
> > 
> > On 03/20/2015 03:43 PM, Dale Trombley wrote:
> > 
> > Being fully updated I'm still getting this issue? Will this be fixed in an
> > update or do I need to reinstall?
> > 
> > On Mar 15, 2015 7:14 AM, "Philip Muskovac" <yofel at gmx.net> wrote:
> >> On Thursday 12 March 2015 23:39:48 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> >> > Today's update has a nice daily image working well with ubiquity-dm but
> >> > seems to fall for a mysterious bug on some upgrades where login manager
> >> > sddm does not run if you reboot
> >> > 
> >> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sddm/+bug/1431332
> >> > 
> >> > you can start it manually by logging in at the linux console and
> >> > running
> >> > systemctl start sddm
> >> > 
> >> > and a reinstall of the live cd fixes it
> >> > 
> >> > but as yet I've no idea what makes it not start sddm.  Any suggestions
> >> > welcome.
> >> 
> >> From the messages on the various bug reports, and from the discussion I
> >> had with Aaron and BluesKaj in #kubuntu-devel, the common pattern seems
> >> to
> >> be:
> >> 
> >> Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; disabled; vendor
> >> preset:
> >> enabled)
> >> 
> >> from systemctl status sddm. A simple "systemctl enable sddm" should fix
> >> that. I'm clueless what disables sddm in the first place though...
> >> 
> >> Philip
> 
> I'm still finding `systemctl enable sddm` necessary today in a
> freshly-installed, freshly-updated Vivid beta. Wifi didn't start
> automatically and in fact I found the "start automatically" choice
> unchecked again. I'll add my input on
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344600 once I start up again with
> the start-auto enabled and see if it still happens.
> 
> Other small glitches I've noticed: the lockscreen no longer
> automatically catches your input. In other words, the cursor is not in
> the textbox. That is slightly annoying every time.
> 
> I have the slideshow enabled on my screen, and recently the new image
> is being placed right over the old image, rather than replacing it.
> Since I have it set to scale, some are smaller, and I've seen as many
> as four images stacked one on top of the other. Very unprofessional.
> 
> I will report those last two upstream if somebody tells me the names
> to use in the bug reports.
> 
> Valorie

have   you run
$ sudo systemctl enable sddm.service -f

This is what the interwebs told me to do (can't remember where I got that 
from)

All this new learnin' is gonna be...fun ;)

-- 
Clay Weber