SDDM not installed following a rushed installation of FreeBSD
In VirtualBox, I downloaded then ran the script at the finishing stage of FreeBSD Installer for 14.4-BETA3 with FreeBSD-14.4-BETA3-amd64-dvd1.iso.
With the first boot of the installed system, I wondered why SDDM did not start.
I checked /etc/rc.conf and found:
- the two lines for VirtualBox services
- the line for
dbus_enable - nothing for SDDM.
Closer inspection: SDDM was not installed, so I installed it (the package is available at the time of writing).
An afterthought, whilst drafting this report. During installation of FreeBSD, before the finishing stage:
- I had chosen to not add a user.
If that's the explanation, then I guess that the desktop script could be enhanced to drop a hint when the operator is lazy. Encourage the operator to:
- add a user
- and then re-run the script?
Edited by Graham Perrin