blendOS•2y ago•

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sddm user missing in plasma track? | PLASMA ISSUES

HOW TO REPRODUCE
- Downloaded the latest (4636db55) iso
- Successfully installed via ventoy and rebooted
- Edited

system.yaml

system.yaml

to change "default-gnome" to "plasma"
- Ran

akshara update

akshara update

successfully and rebooted
- Now stuck with only a cursor and no DM
- Ran journalctl and found that sddm user does not exist

FIX
- Created it with

useradd -m sddm -s /bin/false

useradd -m sddm -s /bin/false

and then

usermid -a -G video sddm

usermid -a -G video sddm

and ran

systemctl restart sddm

systemctl restart sddm

and it worked

Solution

I was investigating this bug yesterday, and the root cause appears to be

akshara

akshara

simply discarding the new

passwd

passwd

and

group

group

files. Implementing the

nss-altfiles

nss-altfiles

module (https://github.com/aperezdc/nss-altfiles) to have separate system variants of those files should be viable, since

akshara

akshara

would then be able to replace those files during updates. I'm implementing this right now.

GitHub

NSS module to read passwd/group files from alternate locations - aperezdc/nss-altfiles