Bug#598377: unable to log into gdm3 - only user name visible

[Bigby Wolf]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.0.4-4

Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
Architecture: x86_64

Although the bug has been reported more than one year ago, I can confirm this issue occuring these days.

After updating my system more than one week ago, typing a password in gdm3 login-screen was not possible. When I tried to do so, gdm3 reloaded and only username was visible. So I switched to terminal and removed gdm3.

The following packages will be REMOVED:
gdm3* gnome* gnome-core*

After that I installed gdm3 again.

The following extra packages will be installed:
at-spi libgail-common

Doing autoremove resulted in something like this:

The following packages are no longer needed and will be removed
gnome-orca libatk-adaptor

To make sure all dependencies would be resolved, I had to install the meta-package 'gnome' manually.

After this procedure gdm3 works fine again. I guess this is a packaging problem, too. I hope this helps to get this issue reproduced, or'll help other users having the same problem fix it.

Thx for your time

bigby
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