<![CDATA[I have bit of a problem with getting SDDM to start a Plasma session under Wayland on FreeBSD 15.1.]]>I have a bit of a problem with getting SDDM to start a Plasma session under Wayland on FreeBSD 15.1.

I've installed KDE Plasma using "kde-installer-dialogs" from @alfonsosiciliano (link below). After rebooting, the SDDM greeter shows up as expected, but entering my credentials just returns me to the greeter.

Disabling SDDM, and manually starting a session with "% exec dbus-launch ck-launch-session startplasma-wayland" works fine.

Any ideas?

Excerpt from /var/log/sddm.log:

[17:55:08.941] (II) DAEMON: Greeter starting...
[17:55:08.942] (II) DAEMON: Greeter stopping...
[17:55:08.942] (WW) DAEMON: Error from greeter session: "Process crashed"
[17:55:08.942] (WW) DAEMON: Auth: sddm-helper (--socket /tmp/sddm-auth-0646d0ea-c7ba-4fac-99d1-69f703416d2c --id 6 --start /usr/local/bin/sddm-greeter-qt6 --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-ikHaiz --theme /usr/local/share/sddm/themes/breeze --user sddm --greeter) crashed (exit code 1)
[17:55:08.942] (WW) DAEMON: Error from greeter session: "Process crashed"
[17:55:08.942] (WW) DAEMON: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 9
[17:55:08.942] (II) DAEMON: Greeter stopped. SDDM::Auth::HelperExitStatus(9)
[17:55:08.963] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Starting...
[17:55:08.963] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Authenticating...
[17:55:08.963] (II) HELPER: [PAM] returning.
[17:55:08.963] (II) HELPER: Writing cookie to "/tmp/xauth_pDPLBN"
[17:55:08.963] (II) HELPER: Starting X11 session: "" "/usr/local/bin/sddm-greeter-qt6 --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-FSIfCO --theme /usr/local/share/sddm/themes/breeze"
[17:55:08.965] (II) DAEMON: Greeter session started successfully
[17:55:09.013] (II) DAEMON: Message received from greeter: Connect
[18:07:19.151] (WW) DAEMON: Signal received: SIGTERM
[18:07:19.152] (II) DAEMON: Greeter stopping...

https://gitlab.com/alfix/kde-installer-dialogs

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Thanks, that certainly looks like the same problem!

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