SDDM very slow to login

Hi All

I am not sure if this is just me but I have upgraded from 14 to 15 on two very different machines. On both machines, everything is great but logging in is a very slow process. The wife is not happy about that. After entering your password, it takes about 7 secs (maybe more) to have sddm leave and start bringing up the desktop. 14 was very snappy.

Any tips regarding next steps? I didn’t pay attention but was kdm used with 14. If so, perhaps an option is switch back to kdm.
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It appears there are a bunch of erros in .xsession-errors.

[quote]$ grep -i error .xsession-errors
Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL
Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL
Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 994, resource id: 65011716, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1011, resource id: 65011717, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1015, resource id: 65011718, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1024, resource id: 56623109, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 895, resource id: 58720318, major code: 3 (GetWindowAttributes), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 896, resource id: 58720318, major code: 2 (ChangeWindowAttributes), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1466, resource id: 58720318, major code: 20 (GetProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1467, resource id: 58720318, major code: 20 (GetProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1468, resource id: 58720318, major code: 19 (DeleteProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1494, resource id: 58720318, major code: 15 (QueryTree), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1511, resource id: 29360153, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1563, resource id: 35651585, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
korgac(8165)/libakonadi Akonadi::AgentManagerPrivate::createDBusInterface: AgentManager failed to get a valid AgentManager DBus interface. Error is: 1 “org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner” “Could not get owner of name ‘org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Control’: no such name”
korgac(8165)/libakonadi Akonadi::SessionPrivate::socketError: Socket error occurred: “QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid name”
korgac(8165)/libakonadi Akonadi::SessionPrivate::socketError: Socket error occurred: “QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid name”
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1575, resource id: 56623105, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1579, resource id: 56623106, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 1583, resource id: 56623105, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 2022, resource id: 0, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
AkonadiAgentServer(8339)/libakonadi Akonadi::AgentManagerPrivate::createDBusInterface: AgentManager failed to get a valid AgentManager DBus interface. Error is: 1 “org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner” “Could not get owner of name ‘org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Control’: no such name”
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 2884, resource id: 92274689, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 2888, resource id: 92274690, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 2892, resource id: 92274689, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 3410, resource id: 92274731, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 3411, resource id: 92274731, major code: 12 (ConfigureWindow), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 13795, resource id: 16777225, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 16890, resource id: 18874369, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 16894, resource id: 18874370, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
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The xsession errors don’t actually show anything from sddm but more likely kwin things as xcb is the new library used by it instead of xlib. (might be also plasma as it also uses this I guess)

As for sddm please take a look at /var/log/ and see if you can find a sddm.log file there.

Thanks for the help. I check /var/log/sddm.log and there are no errors. I will try looking into those .xsession errors.