Arve Barsnes wrote:
> On 14 October 2017 at 08:37, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
> <mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     A quick heads-up to anyone who like me uses sddm on a plain openrc box
>     with USE="-elogind -systemd" and upgrades to sddm-0.16.0 (recently
>     released)
>
>     That combination does not work. The xdm service starts, sddm launches,
>     logs a message that doesn't look too ominous and then does ...
>     nothing.
>     No sddm, No X-Server. Very confusing, took me a while to solve.
>
>
> That's interesting. This combination works just fine here. Installed
> 0.16.0 Wednesday, rebooted Thursday, sddm worked as normal.
> USE="consolekit pam -elogind -systemd"
>
> Arve


I wonder if a piece of hardware, video card for example, is also needed
to trigger this issue?  Something in the kernel config maybe? 

Just a thought.  Thanks for the heads up Alan.  Nothing like expecting
something to go wrong and have a plan B handy. 

Dale

:-)  :-)