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Arch. That leads me to believe it's possibly a configuration issue. Mine is pretty barebones, it's literally just that one file.
AFAIK the ones in sddm.conf.d are for useful because the GUI can focus on just one file without nuking other user's configurations. But they all get loaded so it shouldn't matter.
The linked bug report seems to blame PAM modules, kwallet in particular which I don't think I've got configured for unlock at login since there's no password to that account in the first place.
I have kwallet setup with a password and it unlocks automatically with auto login. idk why, it's not like I configured anything. I'm using the QT6 version. When I was using the QT5 version I had to configure it, but since switching I've removed those configs. Perhaps it's because it's the same password as the user...
That's weird because the whole idea is that it shares the same password so it can unlock it as you log in. The password is not available during autologin because well, that's the whole point to not provide a password. So you either have no password on kwallet or you're not auto logging in.
Thanks for the info. I don't enable the Kwallet service at all either, so I don't think that would be it, but who knows. At any rate, I rechecked my config and even moved the settings to
/etc/sddm.conf
without success. It seems I'm not alone at least, so I'll just stick with GDM until I can troubleshoot further.