Bug 459465 - dpkg installer error broke sddm-greeter; left me with no GUI (black screen)
Summary: dpkg installer error broke sddm-greeter; left me with no GUI (black screen)
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Alias: None
Product: neon
Classification: KDE Neon
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Neon Linux
: NOR crash
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Neon Bugs
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Reported: 2022-09-21 01:20 UTC by Phil Hord
Modified: 2025-09-20 09:35 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
sddm logs from syslog (3.92 KB, text/plain)
2022-09-21 01:20 UTC, Phil Hord
Details
/var/log/apt/history.log showing failure and recovery (84.37 KB, text/plain)
2022-09-21 01:23 UTC, Phil Hord
Details
/var/log/apt/term.log showing failure and recovery (344.39 KB, text/plain)
2022-09-21 01:24 UTC, Phil Hord
Details

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Description Phil Hord 2022-09-21 01:20:58 UTC
Created attachment 152295 [details]
sddm logs from syslog

SUMMARY

Installed updates today using Discover and Offline updates.  There was an error during update of one of the packages.  After this, the login screen no longer appeared.  This error appeared in syslog:

    sddm-greeter[1004]: Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (5.15.5) with this library (5.15.6)

I was able to recover by running startplasma-wayland from another shell, then reinstalling the list of packages shown in /var/log/apt/history.log manually.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon 5.25
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0
Qt Version: 5.15.6
Kernel Version: 5.15.0-48-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
When I was able to login, I did get a message about a Failed Offline Update with an offer to repair.  But this was not useful when I couldn't even login before.

The failed package was pipewire:

Failed to update 1 package
Error while installing package: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pipewire.so', which is also in package pipewire-audio-client-libraries 

I'm not sure how (or if) this led to the Qt5 library incompatibility.
Comment 1 Phil Hord 2022-09-21 01:23:36 UTC
Created attachment 152296 [details]
/var/log/apt/history.log showing failure and recovery

Failed update began here: 
Start-Date: 2022-09-20  14:21:20


Recovery steps here:
Start-Date: 2022-09-20  17:24:26
Start-Date: 2022-09-20  17:34:24
Start-Date: 2022-09-20  17:36:19
Comment 2 Phil Hord 2022-09-21 01:24:16 UTC
Created attachment 152297 [details]
/var/log/apt/term.log showing failure and recovery
Comment 3 Carlos De Maine 2025-09-20 09:35:23 UTC
Thank you for your bug report! 
However this bug report was created/provided previous to 01/01/2023 and also has not received any updates since  before 01/01/2025. 
Unfortunately KDE neon no longer provides updates for anything older than noble 24.04 based edition's.
Please upgrade to KDE neon noble and if you can reproduce the issue after upgrading to an active version, feel free to re-open this bug report.
Thanks for understanding!