[solved] sddm starts on vt2 instead of vt7

[GOS]

Hello,

unfortunately, never versions of sddm ignore the "MinimumVT=" flag in "/etc/sddm.conf" by intention. Hence, sddm starts on vt2 instead of vt7 (I use OpenRC). On the other hand, one can restart sddm via "/etc/init.d/display-mananger restart" and then it starts on vt7.

I assume that this is, because at the moment that "/etc/init.d/display-mananger" starts the first time at boot, agetty has only established tty1 on vt1 and therefore sddm uses vt2.

Later, if one restarts "/etc/init.d/display-mananger" agetty has established all tty 1-6 on vt 1-6 and therefore sddm can only use vt7.

So my question is: Has anyone an idea to circumvent that problem / Is there a method that agetty establishes all tty 1-6 before "/etc/init.d/display-mananger" starts the first time?

Thanks in advance
GOS

[Ralphred]

I moved the terminal lines in /etc/inittab for tty 2 through 6 to after the boot command, but before the runlevel definitions.

I mentioned this a while ago when sddm went to >0.19, no one has told me "you shouldn't do that because" yet, and it restores the desired behaviour.
I might look at sddm again after a couple more updates, and see if the "new code" to set a minimum VT works yet, but it didn't when I checked 0.21.

[juliedeville]

I am having the same issue

[juliedeville]

Possibly related:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/1fzpik3/display_manager_not_starting_automatically_after/

[steve_v]

It appears this can still be set at compile-time (IOW, works for me), like so.
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[GOS]

@ Ralphred: This means, you placed the "#TERMINALS"-section directly under "rc::bootwait:/sbin/openrc boot"-line !?

@ steve_v: Where do you place this file? Is it a patch?

[Ralphred]

[GOS]

@Ralphred: Thanks a lot. Your approach worked for me. I tested also Steve's approach, but that did not work.

[Ralphred]