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Good afternoon.

Using Mageia 8 beta KDE (and, before that, Mageia 7 with no problems whatsoever). I haven't applied updates in a while.

Yesterday I changed the default login theme in KDE system settings (Workspace --> Startup and Shutdown --> Login Screen (SDDM)) from default Mageia theme to some other. It asked for root password, I successfully applied it and closed settings.

Today, as I turned on the computer, it succesfully boots but there's no login screen, only a black screen with cursor. This is the only change I've done recently. Apart from that, everything has been very stable.

How can I restore default login theme and, hopefully, solve this problem? I can access Ctrl+Alt-F2.

Many thanks. Mageia is my favorite distro.

The login screen theme for sddm is configured in /etc/sddm.conf in [Theme] section, you can comment the theme there and then it should use the default.

It may be Bug 27601 - Blackscreen after an update of sddm
Referenced in Errata
So try changing the hostname to something else than localhost.

After trying to edit "/etc/sddm.conf" and other related files with nano, with me realizing these files were about merely 5 lines long and seemed quite empty compared to what they should be, and after turning off and on about 6 times after searching and typing a lot but fixing nothing... the login screen suddenly appeared (after boot 6, I think). With the new theme...

Because I'm a basic user, I don't know what the bug was but it seems solved. Now I already updated everything to the latest. Thanks doktor5000 and morgano for the quick replies! Mageia is so good the problem solves itself!

Please mark the thread as solved by editing the subject of the first post and prefix it with [SOLVED], thanks in advance.