Bug#721388: gdm3 no longer starts the default session

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2013-08-31 08:41:10 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 31.08.2013 02:09, schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
> > Package: gdm3
> > Version: 3.4.1-9
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> I fail to see the justitification for this severity, can you elaborate?

I can no longer use the machine normally. This problem makes things
worse as the default fvwm2 config is broken: the proposed "Xterm"
doesn't support non-ASCII characters, with display corruption when
using "screen" (at least remotely via SSH).

> > When I last logged in on 2013-08-27, evenrything was OK. But when
> > I came back at my office on 2013-08-30, fvwm was no longer reading
> > my config file. After some search, I could see that .xsession-errors
> > contained:
> > 
> > /etc/gdm3/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
> > /home/vlefevre/.Xresources:1:18: warning: missing terminating ' character [enabled by default]
> >  ! Vincent Lef�vre's .Xresources
> 
> This looks like a bug in your users .Xressources script.

No, this is just a harmless warning due to a bug in xrdb
(bug 443537).

[...]

> I still fail to see the bug in gdm3 here.

Well, the behavior has changed, making the machine hardly usable,
while I didn't change anything in my config!

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