Bug#678961: ERROR: Unable to open '/var/lib/gdm3/dconf/db/gdm', specified in dconf profile#012#012aborting...

[Fabian Greffrath]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.4.1-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Hi,

my current system is a mixture of unstable and testing, with dconf-tools
obviously not yet upgraded to the version in unstable. Today I broke my
complete X server (thus the severity) by upgrading gdm3 to the version in
unstable. The following line has been printed into syslog several times while
the X server kept shutting down and restarting over and over again:

ERROR: Unable to open '/var/lib/gdm3/dconf/db/gdm', specified in dconf
profile#012#012aborting...

This was fixed by simply installing dconf-tools 0.12.1-2 from unstable. I have
seen that you already fixed this dependency in SVN, but I 'd like to keep this
bug open as a help for others until you uploaded the fixed package.

BTW, I don't think the X server should get restarted over and over again.
Instead, it should simply break after a number of unsuccessful attempts.

 - Fabian



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (901, 'testing'), (501, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.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  cdebconf [debconf-2.0]                      0.160
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                     0.12.1-2
ii  dconf-tools                                 0.12.1-2
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                       1.5.43
ii  dpkg                                        1.16.3
ii  gir1.2-freedesktop                          1.32.1-1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                             1.32.1-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]           3.4.2.1-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                           3.4.2.1-1
ii  gnome-session-fallback [x-session-manager]  3.4.2.1-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                       3.4.2-3
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]        3.4.1.1-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                   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                                       2.13-33
ii  libcairo-gobject2                           1.12.2-1
ii  libcairo2                                   1.12.2-1
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  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                          2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                2.32.3-1
ii  libglib2.0-bin                              2.32.3-1
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+Debian6
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]                 1:2.34.3-2
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]                   3.4.1-4
ii  policykit-1-gnome                           0.105-2
ii  upower                                      0.9.16-3
ii  x11-common                                  1:7.6+13
ii  x11-xserver-utils                           7.7~3
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]                 278-1

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
pn  at-spi            <none>
ii  desktop-base      7.0.0~exp2
ii  gnome-icon-theme  3.4.0-2
ii  x11-xkb-utils     7.7~1
ii  xserver-xephyr    2:1.12.1.902-1
ii  xserver-xorg      1:7.6+13
ii  zenity            3.4.0-2

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
pn  gnome-mag             <none>
pn  gnome-orca            <none>
ii  gnome-shell           3.4.1-5
pn  gok                   <none>
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.4.1-4

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