sddm not starting after upgrade

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Clay Weber <clay at claydoh.com> wrote:
> 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

I have not. I would hope that we find the cause and get this fixed
before resorting to that.

Valorie