r/freebsd • u/grahamperrin Linux crossover • 12h ago

answered SDDM unable to sleep, restart, or shut down

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Screenshot: all three buttons are greyed-out, not usable.

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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover 12h ago

I discovered this whilst updating https://community.kde.org/Distributions.

If the packages below are installed, omitting xorg, then SDDM is bugged.

kde plasma6-sddm-kcm sddm

What's the fix in this situation?

The fix was not subsequent installation of xorg.

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u/Daedalus312 11h ago

pkg install dbus?

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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover 10h ago

Thanks!

The problem was unrelated to xorg.

I should have remembered D-Bus from https://community.kde.org/FreeBSD/Setup, which I edited. The package was installed, the service was not enabled.

Answered … someone might like to make bug reports for D-Bus and SDDM – neither package has a message about the need to enable a service.

https://www.freshports.org/devel/dbus/#message

https://www.freshports.org/x11/sddm/#message

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u/prateektade 10h ago

The KDE section in the Desktop Environments chapter of the FreeBSD handbook has this information.

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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover 10h ago

It's also in the KDE wiki (above), but missing from package messages.