Bug#736880: gdm3 does not work in Gnome Flashback mode

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Andreas, dear Svante,


Am Dienstag, den 28.01.2014, 00:50 +0100 schrieb Andreas Cadhalpun:
> Hi Svante,
> 
> On 27.01.2014 22:58, Svante Signell wrote:
> > gdm3 does not work in Gnome Flashback mode, this is the fourth computer
> > showing the problem, forcing me to switch to xfce :( After logging in I
> > have icewaesel present in all workspaces, and iconizing it fails, the
> > screen is filled with lines indicating a movement of the full-screen
> > icewasel to iconized status, but the window stays (showing the
> > transition which never completes.
> >
> > The problem is related to systemd, see below, row 4! I don't use systemd for
> > boot (and never will unless forced). Converting this box to xfce too
> > after submitting this bug report.
> 
> Thanks for digging out, what the problem is. As your log indicates, this 
> might very well be another problem due to the missing dependency of 
> gnome-settings-daemon on 'systemd-shim | systemd-sysv' [1].
> 
> Since you do not want to switch your init system (which would happen, if 
> you installed systemd-sysv), I recommend you to install systemd-shim, 
> which works independently of the init system in use.
> 
> Please report back, if this fixes the problem.

Installing `systemd-shim` indeed fixes this problem on my system with
Debian Sid/unstable and an Nvidia graphics card and the Nouveau driver
which currently does not support hardware acceleration.

Svante, thank you for submitting this report even though you already
knew you’ll are going to change to different software. Andreas, thank
you for the answer with the solution. Too bad updated packages were not
updated yet.


Thanks,

Paul


> 1: bugs.debian.org/726763