Bug#747292: gdm3: Unable to login after last upgrade (version 3.8.4-7): fails to start a GNOME session

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Thu, 08 May 2014 17:31:34 +0200,
Benjamin Menant <benjamin.menant at gmail.com> a écrit :

> 
> It did not work… And I had to reinstall those packages (unless the
> previous gdm3 neither worked).

Do you still have the output of auth.log with consolekit uninstalled?

> 
> Another idea?
> 
> I am thinking to try another DM (like, say, LightDM or SLiM). Will see
> if the problem still occurs or not. I will let you know.

You could try to run strace on the logind executable and attach the
result here.

sudo strace -p $(pidof systemd-logind) -s 1024 -o /tmp/log

Otherwise in last ressort you can remove systemd-shim and install
systemd-sysv and then reboot. You'll then use systemd as PID1