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At first Instead of my SDDM I would just see an after image of what was last displayed on screen. But if I typed in my password and pressed enter, it would let me in just fine. Then after following some suggestions from users in r/Kubuntu I’ve made a bit of progress. Now when I boot up my computer instead of the SDDM being invisible, it now doesn’t load at all, from there I switch to tty3 then back to tty2 and then log in through the terminal. After that I run startplasma-wayland and then I have access to my desktop. The post where all this went down - https://www.reddit.com/r/Kubuntu/comments/1nvreuo/sddm_not_rendering/

Does anyone know a fix? I would like to be able to see my login screen.

Here’s my specs in case that would help - https://i.imgur.com/XtC43zw.png

And here’s my journalctl output after booting and launching plasma - https://pastebin.com/nnGsWebd

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[–] PixeIOrange@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You use the same linux install (cloned) for a decade? Thats wild. I just install and document my changes so its not much to do for a reinstall. So for some it works, for some not. OP might be like me, thus my answer has a right to exist! Maybe you could stop correcting others for being different.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

You use the same linux install (cloned) for a decade?

Yep. And it still works without hickups. It lived on 2 desktops and 2 laptops now. Rolling releases are great, I update weekly.

With debian based stuff, I reinstalled twice a year because back then every dist upgrade would break my setup and it became completely unusable if it booted at all.

thus my answer has a right to exist! Maybe you could stop correcting others for being different.

This goes both ways. In your initial comment you took a onesided position and all I wanted was to show the other side. I don't mean to imply that "my" side is the only one. Sorry if it came of that way.

Cheers mate!