There is a new pull request by ndowens against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/ndowens/void-packages sddm https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27463 sddm: update to 0.19.0. Installed, stopped sddm and started and sddm launched for me. It is now using pam_tally2. Full changes: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/releases/tag/v0.19.0 A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27463.patch is attached