Nov 03 15:57:27 Death-Tower systemd[1]: Started Simple Desktop Display Manager.
Nov 03 15:57:27 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Initializing...
Nov 03 15:57:27 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Starting...
Nov 03 15:57:27 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Logind interface found
Nov 03 15:57:27 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Adding new display on vt 1 ...
Nov 03 15:57:27 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Loading theme configuration from ""
Nov 03 15:57:27 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Display server starting...
Nov 03 15:57:27 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Adding cookie to "/var/run/sddm/{b100bf9b-b7dd-4918-b853-be084df91f55}"
Nov 03 15:57:27 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -background none -seat seat0 vt1 -auth /var/run/sddm/{b100bf9b-b7dd-4918-b853-be084df91f55} -noreset -displayfd 17
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Setting default cursor
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Running display setup script  "/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup"
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Display server started.
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Reading from "/usr/share/xsessions/xfce.desktop"
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Reading from "/usr/share/xsessions/xfce.desktop"
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Session "/usr/share/xsessions/xfce.desktop" selected, command: "startxfce4"
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: [PAM] Starting...
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: [PAM] Authenticating...
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: gkr-pam: no password is available for user
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: [PAM] Preparing to converse...
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: pam_kwallet5(sddm-autologin:auth): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_authenticate
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: pam_kwallet5(sddm-autologin:auth): pam_kwallet5: Couldn't get password (it is empty)
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: [PAM] returning.
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: pam_systemd_home(sddm-autologin:account): systemd-homed is not available: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Authenticated successfully
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: pam_kwallet5(sddm-autologin:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: pam_unix(sddm-autologin:session): session opened for user jimi(uid=1000) by (uid=0)
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: pam_env(sddm-autologin:session): deprecated reading of user environment enabled
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: gkr-pam: couldn't unlock the login keyring.
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: pam_kwallet5(sddm-autologin:session): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_open_session
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: Starting: "/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession \"startxfce4\""
Nov 03 15:57:29 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Session started
Nov 03 15:57:30 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: pam_unix(sddm-autologin:session): session closed for user jimi
Nov 03 15:57:30 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: [PAM] Closing session
Nov 03 15:57:30 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: pam_kwallet5(sddm-autologin:session): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_close_session
Nov 03 15:57:30 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: [PAM] Ended.
Nov 03 15:57:30 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1463]: pam_kwallet5(sddm-autologin:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred
Nov 03 15:57:30 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 5
Nov 03 15:57:30 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Display server stopping...
Nov 03 15:57:31 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Display server stopped.
Nov 03 15:57:31 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Running display stop script  "/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xstop"
Nov 03 15:57:31 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Removing display ":0" ...
Nov 03 15:57:31 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Adding new display on vt 1 ...
Nov 03 15:57:31 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Loading theme configuration from ""
Nov 03 15:57:31 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Display server starting...
Nov 03 15:57:31 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Adding cookie to "/var/run/sddm/{99b535d2-62a1-49d3-93f7-bc674d1c3baf}"
Nov 03 15:57:31 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -background none -seat seat0 vt1 -auth /var/run/sddm/{99b535d2-62a1-49d3-93f7-bc674d1c3baf} -noreset -displayfd 17
Nov 03 15:57:33 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Setting default cursor
Nov 03 15:57:33 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Running display setup script  "/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup"
Nov 03 15:57:33 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Display server started.
Nov 03 15:57:33 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Socket server starting...
Nov 03 15:57:33 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Socket server started.
Nov 03 15:57:33 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Loading theme configuration from "/usr/share/sddm/themes/maya/theme.conf"
Nov 03 15:57:33 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Greeter starting...
Nov 03 15:57:33 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1555]: [PAM] Starting...
Nov 03 15:57:33 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1555]: [PAM] Authenticating...
Nov 03 15:57:33 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1555]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm(uid=956) by (uid=0)
Nov 03 15:57:33 Death-Tower sddm-helper[1555]: [PAM] returning.
Nov 03 15:57:33 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Greeter session started successfully
Nov 03 15:57:33 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Message received from greeter: Connect

--at this point I ran systemctl stop sddm.service--

Nov 03 15:58:38 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Signal received: SIGTERM
Nov 03 15:58:38 Death-Tower systemd[1]: Stopping Simple Desktop Display Manager...
Nov 03 15:58:38 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Greeter stopping...
Nov 03 15:58:38 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Socket server stopping...
Nov 03 15:58:38 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Socket server stopped.
Nov 03 15:58:38 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Display server stopping...
Nov 03 15:58:38 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Display server stopped.
Nov 03 15:58:38 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Running display stop script  "/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xstop"
Nov 03 15:58:38 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: Greeter stopping...
Nov 03 15:58:38 Death-Tower sddm[1434]: QProcess: Destroyed while process ("/usr/lib/sddm/sddm-helper") is still running.
Nov 03 15:58:38 Death-Tower systemd[1]: sddm.service: Deactivated successfully.
Nov 03 15:58:38 Death-Tower systemd[1]: Stopped Simple Desktop Display Manager.