Bug#678473: gdm3: I upgraded to the new version of GDM3-3.4.1 and the xserver would not start. had to downgrade to old version of GDM3

[Dean Loros]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.0.4-4
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Dear Maintainer,
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   * What led up to the situation?  Normal upgrade installing new version of
GDM3
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)? Tried to login several times & use startx to get system to
goto graphical login.
   * What was the outcome of this action? Text-only login.
   * What outcome did you expect instead? Graphical login.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: Experimental
  APT prefers experimental
  APT policy: (950, 'experimental'), (900, 'unstable'), (875, 'testing'), (850, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.4-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice           0.6.21-4
ii  adduser                   3.113+nmu3
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend   0.12.1-2
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.5.44
ii  gconf2                    3.2.5-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session  3.4.2.1-1
ii  gnome-session-bin         3.4.2.1-1
ii  gnome-session-fallback [  3.4.2.1-1
ii  gnome-terminal [x-termin  3.4.1.1-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schema  3.4.2-1
ii  libaccountsservice0       0.6.21-4
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.4.0-2
ii  libattr1                  1:2.4.46-8
ii  libaudit0                 1:1.7.18-1.1
ii  libc6                     2.15-0ubuntu10
ii  libcairo-gobject2         1.12.2-2
ii  libcairo2                 1.12.2-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0        0.28-4
ii  libcanberra0              0.28-4
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.6.0-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.98-1
ii  libfontconfig1            2.9.0-6
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.9-1
ii  libgconf2-4               3.2.5-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.33.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-bin            2.33.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                3.4.2-1
ii  libpam-modules            1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpam-runtime            1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpam0g                  1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.30.0-1
ii  librsvg2-common           2.36.1-1
ii  libselinux1               2.1.9-5
ii  libupower-glib1           0.9.16-3
ii  libwrap0                  7.6.q-23
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxau6                   1:1.0.7-1
ii  libxdmcp6                 1:1.1.1-1
ii  libxklavier16             5.2.1-1
ii  libxrandr2                2:1.3.2-2
ii  lsb-base                  4.1+Debian7
ii  metacity [x-window-manag  1:2.34.3-2
ii  mutter [x-window-manager  3.4.1+git20120502.4148a5cc-0ubuntu1~12.04~ricotz0
ii  policykit-1-gnome         0.105-2
ii  upower                    0.9.16-3

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi                 1.32.0-1
ii  desktop-base           6.0.7
ii  gnome-icon-theme       3.4.0-0ubuntu1
ii  gnome-power-manager    3.4.0-2
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.4.2-3
ii  x11-xkb-utils          7.7~1
pn  xserver-xephyr         <none>
ii  xserver-xorg           1:7.6+13
ii  zenity                 3.4.0-2

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-mag             1:0.16.3-1
pn  gnome-orca            <none>
pn  gok                   <none>
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.4.1-4
ii  metacity              1:2.34.3-2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/gdm3/daemon.conf changed:
[daemon]
TimedLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLoginEnable=false
TimedLogin=dean
AutomaticLogin=dean
TimedLoginDelay=30
[security]
[xdmcp]
[greeter]
[chooser]
[debug]


-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3