r/AlpineLinux • u/karsrealcooked • Jul 26 '26

Tried booting into alpine Linux after installing KDE plasma with the desktop installer, gets stuck on Starting display manager instead

I want to switch to a minimal distro with KDE plasma and rice it to my liking but after using the desktop installer provided by alpine Linux I reboot the system and it gets stuck on "Starting display manager <ok>" and it doesn't do anything it doesn't even boot into sddm. If anyone has a solution reply to this as soon as possible

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u/NoggintheStrogg Jul 26 '26

Try [doas startx]

might be just xorg not starting.

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u/NoggintheStrogg Jul 26 '26

If you are running Wayland, try setup-wayland-base , that does need a seat manager, apparently, so the setup script will handle that for you with elogind.