Arch Linux

I tried to disable lightdm to go through startx, but it's the same. Downgrading webkit2gtk packages does indeed solve the problem.

/var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log reports the following

** (WebKitWebProcess:622): CRITICAL **: 22:12:31.133: lightdm_greeter_authenticate: assertion 'priv->connected' failed

Downgrading the package solves the problem and the above log line no longer appears.

So this means you must be using a webkit based greeter? i.e. "lightdm-webkit2-greeter" or "lightdm-webkit-theme-litarvan"? The first one looks dead upstream and there is this [1] for the second one. If it's some other greeter from the AUR or wherever then I'm afraid you're sadly outta luck. Please specify which greeter you are using.

Edit: fixed the url tags above and now I can see litarvan theme mentioned

[1] https://github.com/Litarvan/lightdm-webkit-theme-litarvan/issues/186

Indeed, I use lightdm-webkit-theme-litarvan 3.1.0-1

This also occurs for me for the *AUR* theme https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lightdm-webkit-theme-aether/.

Getting this issue with lightdm-webkit-theme-litarvan, the solution is to downgrade for now

Voted. I also have this issue. As of this time, latest version of webkit2gtk is 2.38.0-2. Tried downgrading to 2.38.0-1, but didn't work. Downgrading to 2.36.7-1 worked.

Package versions:
lightdm 1:1.32.0-4
lightdm-webkit-theme-litarvan 3.1.0-1
lightdm-webkit2-greeter 2.2.5-6

Same issue for me, using webkit2 greeter with petrichor theme (https://github.com/phillid/petrichor). Downgrading to 2.36 solve the issue

The common denominator seems to be `lightdm-webkit2-greeter`. The themes themselves (i.e. litarvan, aether, and petrichor) aren't causing the issue, but they all install and rely on the greeter for rendering the theme.

Given that this appears to be a fix for a different problem [1] which may get reverted/fixed in a more robust way [2], I think the best approach is to wait and see what happens with that. But if `lightdm-webkit2-greeter` still doesn't work, it should possibly be removed from the package list (and/or replaced with a different webkit2 greeter) to avoid new installs being broken from the get-go, and also since the original upstream project is dead [3].

[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221489
[2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245784
[3] https://github.com/Antergos/web-greeter

FWIW - Someone forked Antegros/web-greeter and carried it forward with v3.0.0 based on some updated framework here. https://github.com/JezerM/web-greeter

It has a commit as of yesterday.

That same guy says his https://github.com/JezerM/nody-greeter is better. But that one doesn't have an AUR package. Would be nice to use that one.

So this appears to be working again with latest webkit2gtk 2.38.1-1