Bug#477279: after last upgrade, gdm fails to start

[Ivan Vucica]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.5-1
Severity: important

After latest upgrade to the system, GDM failed to start. I attempted a
purge as well, even moving away the configuration in /etc/gdm manually.
startx works. The slim login manager also works.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (1000, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser              3.107               add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0 1.5.20              Debian configuration management sy
ii  gksu                 2.0.0-5             graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session        2.22.0-2            The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-te 2.22.1-1            The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  icewm [x-window-mana 1.2.35-1            wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like wi
ii  icewm-lite [x-window 1.2.35-1            wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like wi
ii  konsole [x-terminal- 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-2+b1 X terminal emulator for KDE
ii  kwin [x-window-manag 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-2+b1 the KDE window manager
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.20-1            Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.22.0-1            The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1             1:2.4.41-1          Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                2.7-10              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2            1.4.14-1            The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.1.20-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2     0.74-1              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdmx1              1:1.0.2-2           X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii  libfontconfig1       2.5.0-2             generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6         2.3.5-1+b1          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglade2-0          1:2.6.2-1           library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.16.1-2            The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.20.1.1-1          A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.12.9-2            The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam-modules       0.99.7.1-6          Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime       0.99.7.1-6          Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g             0.99.7.1-6          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.20.2-2            Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2           2.22.2-2            SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common      2.22.2-2            SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1          2.0.59-1            SELinux shared libraries
ii  libwrap0             7.6.q-15            Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6             2:1.0.3-7           X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6              1:1.0.3-2           X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6            1:1.0.2-2           X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6             2:1.0.4-1           X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6               2:1.1.3-1           X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1         2:1.0.3-1           X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2              2.6.31.dfsg-2       GNOME XML library
ii  lsb-base             3.1-24              Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  metacity [x-window-m 1:2.22.0-1          A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  openbox [x-window-ma 3.4.6.1-2           standards compliant, fast, light-w
ii  pterm [x-terminal-em 0.60-2              PuTTY terminal emulator
ii  xfce4-terminal [x-te 0.2.8-4             Xfce terminal emulator
ii  xfwm4 [x-window-mana 4.4.2-3             window manager of the Xfce project
ii  xterm [x-terminal-em 234-1               X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12   compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog                 1.1-20080316-1    Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
pi  gdm-themes             0.5.1             Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  whiptail               0.52.2-11.2       Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  xnest                  2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12 Nested X server
ii  xserver-xephyr         2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12 Next Generation Nested X Server
ii  xserver-xorg           1:7.2-5           the X.Org X server
ii  zenity                 2.22.1-1          Display graphical dialog boxes fro

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm