SDDM starts only after typing 6 chars [SOLVED]

vrabeshko · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2019 Posts: 3

Hi there. I am new at using Gentoo. Went from Fedora with KDE.

I followed installation guides. Set up the system, KDE, SDDM.
But it's not working like I expected. I was trying to figure out, what the problem, maybe there is something in configs, logs, but I didn't found any.

The problem is when I start computer, after init system I got simple tty with terminal, SDDM not starting untill I type any 6 chats (i.e. my user is `vrabeshko` and I type `vrabe` and after I type `h` SDDM appears). Or for example switching to tty2 or 3.

I was trying to find something about this on internet, but without any luck.

Could you help me, where to look, pls?

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:47 am Post subject:

vrabeshko welcome to gentoo forum!

You are sure that problem isn't only that sddm is slow to starting and therefore not related to typing?
I had similar problem and I fix installing and activating sys-apps/haveged package (see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=236696)

EDIT: if not your case post your /var/log/sddm.log with wgetpaste
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Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:51 am Post subject:

I wonder if this is the infamous entropy problem with SDDM: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/1075

You could try merging haveged to see if it improves things. I think the ebuild adds the service to the boot runlevel, but, if not, you can add it manually.

EDIT: fedeliallalinea beat me to it!
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vrabeshko · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2019 Posts: 3

Thank you! Will try this soon and give feedback

vrabeshko · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2019 Posts: 3

Thanks guys!! Installed and added to runlevel sys-apps/haveged and it started working well!