Bug#610905: gdm3: gdm3 displays blank screen after logout
Joe Riel
joer at san.rr.com
Sun Jan 23 21:00:00 UTC 2011
Package: gdm3
Version: 2.30.5-6
Severity: important
After logging out, instead of seeing the gdm3 login prompt,
I see a blank screen, with a working mouse. The same thing
happens when returning from a virtual terminal. Restarting
gdm3 (/etc/init.d/gdm3 restart) does not help.
As a workaround I installed xdm and configured to use it.
That eliminates the problem, though the login screen
isn't quite so nice looking.
I have an onboard graphic controller:
~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM
Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation
82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2
EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC
Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller
(rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
(rev 78)
01:01.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c375 [ViRGE/DX] or 86c385
[ViRGE/GX] (rev 01)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36 Debian configuration management sy
ii gconf2 2.28.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste
ii gnome-session [x-sessio 2.30.2-3 The GNOME Session Manager - GNOME
ii gnome-session-bin 2.30.2-3 The GNOME Session Manager - Minima
ii gnome-terminal [x-termi 2.30.2-1 The GNOME terminal emulator applic
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.21-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library
ii libaudit0 1.7.13-1+b2 Dynamic library for security audit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.24.3-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.24.3-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcanberra-gtk0 0.24-1 Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii libcanberra0 0.24-1 a simple abstract interface for pl
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.30.0-1 The GNOME library - runtime files
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.30.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.18-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpam-modules 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-6.1 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.30.2-2 library for GNOME Panel applets
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.96-4 PolicyKit Authorization API
ii libpolkit-gtk-1-0 0.96-3 PolicyKit GTK+ API
ii libpopt0 1.16-1 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii librsvg2-common 2.26.3-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii libupower-glib1 0.9.5-5 abstraction for power management -
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-19 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.6-1 X11 authorisation library
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii libxklavier16 5.0-2 X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii metacity [x-window-mana 1:2.30.1-3 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii policykit-1-gnome 0.96-3 GNOME authentication agent for Pol
ii twm [x-window-manager] 1:1.0.4-2 Tab window manager
ii upower 0.9.5-5 abstraction for power management
ii xterm [x-terminal-emula 261-1 X terminal emulator
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii at-spi 1.30.1-3 Assistive Technology Service Provi
ii desktop-base 6.0.5 common files for the Debian Deskto
ii gnome-icon-theme 2.30.3-2 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii gnome-power-manager 2.32.0-2 power management tool for the GNOM
ii gnome-settings-daemon 2.30.2-2 daemon handling the GNOME session
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.5+5 X11 XKB utilities
ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.7.7-11 nested X server
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.5+8 the X.Org X server
ii zenity 2.30.0-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro
Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii gnome-mag 1:0.16.1-2 a screen magnifier for the GNOME d
ii gnome-orca 2.30.2-2 Scriptable screen reader
ii gok 2.30.0-1 GNOME Onscreen Keyboard
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 2.30.3-5 PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
ii metacity 1:2.30.1-3 lightweight GTK+ window manager
-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: xdm
gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3
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