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

[Benjamin Menant]

Hello Laurent,

I upgraded my system and got gdm3:amd64 3.8.4-8.1 installed. After
reboot, I opened a VC to strace systemd-logind, then I tried to login
through gdm.
I attached the log results.

Eventually, I got back to 3.8.4-6.

Bob, are you talking about the Gnome Flashback session? I will give it a
try next time.

Pascal, I also successfully tried lightdm. I got your point, and thank
you very much for your messages.
However, since GDM3 comes with Gnome 3, I am pretty sure it would be
comfy for most users to just get GDM3 working & stable without
installing any other package (even if those packages are better in any
way; it is not the point).
Also, I am using the **unstable** distribution, and I knew this
distribution comes with issues. That’s fine. By the way, I guess my
humble role as a GNU/Debian user is to report bugs, and give the most
information I can to Maintainers so they can fix those bugs (or not).
So, IMHO, running away to install an alternative is not a solution. ;-)

Thank you,
Benjamin.

Le 08/05/2014 17:41, Laurent Bigonville a écrit :
> 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
> 

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