Bug#666091: gdm3 crashes during login

Felix Koop fdp at fkoop.de
Wed Mar 28 16:39:44 UTC 2012


Package: gdm3
Version: 3.0.4-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

When I login using the Gnome session type, I cannot login and the gdm3 crashes
with an error message
on the screen indicating that something went wrong and that I have to log out.
When using the Gnome
Classic session I can log in. What can I do to help analyze the problem?



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
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  accountsservice                             0.6.15-4
ii  adduser                                     3.113+nmu1
ii  cdebconf [debconf-2.0]                      0.160
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                     0.10.0-3
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                       1.5.42
ii  gconf2                                      3.2.3-4
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]           3.2.1-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                           3.2.1-1
ii  gnome-session-fallback [x-session-manager]  3.2.1-1
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]        3.2.1-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                   3.2.0-2
ii  libaccountsservice0                         0.6.15-4
ii  libatk1.0-0                                 2.2.0-2
ii  libattr1                                    1:2.4.46-5
ii  libaudit0                                   1:1.7.18-1.1
ii  libc6                                       2.13-27
ii  libcairo-gobject2                           1.10.2-7
ii  libcairo2                                   1.10.2-7
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                          0.28-3
ii  libcanberra0                                0.28-3
ii  libdbus-1-3                                 1.5.12-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                            0.98-1
ii  libfontconfig1                              2.8.0-3.1
ii  libfreetype6                                2.4.9-1
ii  libgconf2-4                                 3.2.3-4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                          2.24.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                2.30.2-6
ii  libglib2.0-bin                              2.30.2-6
ii  libgtk-3-0                                  3.2.3-1
ii  libpam-modules                              1.1.3-7
ii  libpam-runtime                              1.1.3-7
ii  libpam0g                                    1.1.3-7
ii  libpango1.0-0                               1.29.4-3+b1
ii  librsvg2-common                             2.36.0-1
ii  libselinux1                                 2.1.9-3
ii  libupower-glib1                             0.9.15-2
ii  libwrap0                                    7.6.q-23
ii  libx11-6                                    2:1.4.4-4
ii  libxau6                                     1:1.0.6-4
ii  libxdmcp6                                   1:1.1.0-4
ii  libxklavier16                               5.2.1-1
ii  libxrandr2                                  2:1.3.2-2
ii  lsb-base                                    4.1+Debian0
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]                 1:2.34.1-2
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]                   3.2.2-1
ii  policykit-1-gnome                           0.105-2
ii  roxterm-gtk3 [x-terminal-emulator]          2.5.3-1
ii  twm [x-window-manager]                      1:1.0.6-1
ii  upower                                      0.9.15-2
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]                 276-2

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi                 1.32.0-1
ii  desktop-base           6.0.7
ii  gnome-icon-theme       3.2.1.2-1
ii  gnome-power-manager    3.2.1-2
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.2.2-3
ii  x11-xkb-utils          7.6+4
ii  xserver-xephyr         2:1.11.4-1
ii  xserver-xorg           1:7.6+12
ii  zenity                 3.2.0-1

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-mag             <none>
ii  gnome-orca            <none>
ii  gok                   <none>
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.2.2-2
ii  metacity              1:2.34.1-2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/init.d/gdm3 changed:
set -e
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/gdm3
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
if [ -r /etc/default/locale ]; then
  . /etc/default/locale
  export LANG LANGUAGE
fi
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER=true
DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE=/etc/X11/default-display-manager
gen_config() {
  # GConf part is generated with update-gconf-defaults
  if [ -d /var/lib/gdm3/.gconf.mandatory ]; then
    update-gconf-defaults \
	--source=/usr/share/gdm/greeter-config \
	--destination=/var/lib/gdm3/.gconf.mandatory \
	--no-signal \
	--only-if-changed
  fi
  if [ -f /var/lib/gdm3/.gconf.mandatory/%gconf-tree.xml ]; then
    chown Debian-gdm:Debian-gdm /var/lib/gdm3/.gconf.mandatory/%gconf-tree.xml
  fi
  # GSettings part is generated with glib-compile-schemas
  if [ -d /var/lib/gdm3 ]; then
    needed=no
    if [ -f /var/lib/gdm3/gschemas.compiled ]; then
      for f in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled /usr/share/gdm/greeter-settings /usr/share/gdm/greeter-settings/*.gschema.override; do
        if [ "$f" -nt /var/lib/gdm3/gschemas.compiled ]; then
          needed=yes
          break
        fi
      done
    else
      needed=yes
    fi
    if [ "$needed" = yes ]; then
      tmpdir=$(mktemp -d --tmpdir gdm-XXXXXX)
      ln -s /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/*.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/*.override /usr/share/gdm/greeter-settings/*.override $tmpdir/
      glib-compile-schemas --targetdir=/var/lib/gdm3 $tmpdir
      rm -rf $tmpdir
    fi
  fi
}
case "$1" in
  start)
        CONFIGURED_DAEMON=$(basename "$(cat $DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE 2> /dev/null)")
        if grep -wqs text /proc/cmdline; then
            log_warning_msg "Not starting GNOME Display Manager; found 'text' in kernel commandline."
        elif [ -e "$DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE" ] && \
           [ "$HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER" = "true" ] && \
           [ "$CONFIGURED_DAEMON" != gdm3 ] ; then
                log_action_msg "Not starting GNOME Display Manager; it is not the default display manager"
        else
                log_daemon_msg "Starting GNOME Display Manager" "gdm3"
                gen_config
                start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/gdm3.pid \
			--background --exec $DAEMON || log_end_msg 1
                log_end_msg 0
        fi
  ;;
  stop)
        log_daemon_msg "Stopping GNOME Display Manager" "gdm3"
        set +e
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/gdm3.pid \
                --name gdm3 --retry 5
        set -e
        log_end_msg $?
  ;;
  reload)
        log_daemon_msg "Scheduling reload of GNOME Display Manager configuration" "gdm3"
        set +e
        gen_config
        start-stop-daemon --stop --signal USR1 --quiet --pidfile \
                /var/run/gdm3.pid --name gdm3
        start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --quiet --name gconfd-2 \
                --user Debian-gdm --oknodo
        set -e
        log_end_msg $?
  ;;
  status)
        status_of_proc -p "$PIDFILE" "$DAEMON" gdm3 && exit 0 || exit $?
  ;;
  restart|force-reload)
        $0 stop
        $0 start
  ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/gdm3 {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status}"
        exit 1
  ;;
esac
exit 0


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





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