Bug#939161: gdm3: blank screen when booting without firmware-linux-nonfree

[Patrick Frank]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.30.2-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainers,

after the install of the Gnome desktop (with non-free enabled repos) the
system seems to be stuck after the boot when GDM3 should take over. A blank
screen with a blinking cursor is showing instead.

I then switched to a Terminal via ALT+F2 and installed the package
firmware-linux-nonfree. As soon as the system detected the firmware
everything loaded as expected.


-- System Information:

CPU: Dual Core - model: AMD A6-7400K Radeon R5

Graphics: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kaveri [Radeon R5 Graphics]


Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')

Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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