Solved river/wayland window manager fail.

[Alain De Vos]

Starting river window manager ends abrubt with following errors :

info: initializing server 
error(wlroots): [libseat] [libseat/backend/seatd.c:78] Could not connect to socket /var/run/seatd.sock: No such file or directory 
info(wlroots): [libseat] [libseat/libseat.c:74] Backend 'seatd' failed to open seat, skipping 
error(wlroots): [libseat] [libseat/backend/consolekit2.c:530] Could not get session: Unable to lookup session information for process '41073' 
info(wlroots): [libseat] [libseat/libseat.c:74] Backend 'consolekit2' failed to open seat, skipping 
error(wlroots): [libseat] [libseat/backend/seatd.c:588] Built-in seatd instance requires root privileges 
info(wlroots): [libseat] [libseat/libseat.c:74] Backend 'builtin' failed to open seat, skipping 
error(wlroots): [libseat] [libseat/libseat.c:77] No backend was able to open a seat 
error(wlroots): [backend/session/session.c:84] Unable to create seat: Function not implemented 
error(wlroots): [backend/session/session.c:218] Failed to load session backend 
error(wlroots): [backend/backend.c:353] Failed to start a DRM session 
error: BackendCreateFailed

My init script is the default one,

river/example/init at master · riverwm/river

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[corvo.liu]

I met the same problem, x11-wm/river is maintained by jbeich@FreeBSD.org, so maybe you can contact the maintainer.

 

[Alain De Vos]

The problem is simply solved by starting the seatd service.

 

[corvo.liu]

Yeah, I've found that. Thanks a lot!