I came from Arch to Void just today and after installing KDE and enabling dbus, I enabled SDDM, I type in my password and it says login failed, I tried lightdm, I couldn’t login neither in my user account nor root, I setup plasma to run with xinit, plasma did launch successfully, but sudo NEVER worked inside plasma, it always says “password incorrect, please try again” even though I’m able to sudo inside TTYs

I tried “sudo sddm” and read the logs, it says SDDM: authentication_FAILED for user “” which is weird (it didn’t print any names)

There were also some PAM logs in between, I didn’t change any PAM configuration

I have elogind installed and enabled too

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
      1·
      6 months ago

      Do you have polkit installed?

      Also does startplasma-wayland or how its called in the TTY work?

      Plasma on X11 is practically unmaintained afaik

      • notTheCatOP
        1·
        6 months ago

        Yes I have polkit installed

        Executing startplasma-wayland returns the following:

        startplasmacompositor: Could not start D-Bus, Can you call qdbus?

        I don’t have an excutable/command named qdbus

        • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
          1·
          6 months ago

          I never used Void and think it is meant for people that solve such issues themselves.

          I would recommend a distro where even manually installing KDE plasma packages will result in a “just working” Desktop, like Fedora.

          Otherwise, contact the Void people.

          I did a few minimal installs, currently working on a Qt6-only Wayland-only minimal install to test RAM consumption.