Bug#692466: gdm3 3.6 fails to use gdm-shell

Alessio Gaeta alga777 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 14:33:05 UTC 2012


Package: gdm3
Version: 3.6.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
upgrading to gdm3 from experimental the new gdm-shel greeter does not work
anymore. The old metacity one is used instead.

Enabling the debug I can read the following error in
/var/log/gdm3/:0-greeter.log:

gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Getting session 'gdm-shell'
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Looking if /var/lib/gdm3/.config
/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-shell.session is a valid session file
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): Cannot use session '/var/lib/gdm3/.config/gnome-
session/sessions/gdm-shell.session': non-existing or invalid file.
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Looking if /etc/xdg/gnome-
session/sessions/gdm-shell.session is a valid session file
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): Cannot use session '/etc/xdg/gnome-
session/sessions/gdm-shell.session': non-existing or invalid file.
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Looking if /usr/share/gdm/greeter
/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-shell.session is a valid session file
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): Cannot use session '/usr/share/gdm/greeter
/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-shell.session': non-existing or invalid file.
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Looking if /usr/local/share/gnome-
session/sessions/gdm-shell.session is a valid session file
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): Cannot use session '/usr/local/share/gnome-
session/sessions/gdm-shell.session': non-existing or invalid file.
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Looking if /usr/share/gnome-
session/sessions/gdm-shell.session is a valid session file

>>>> [RELEVANT PART]
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Launching helper 'bash -c 'type -p
gnome-shell >& /dev/null && /usr/lib/gdm3/gnome-session-check-accelerated'' to
know if session is runnable
bash: /usr/lib/gdm3/gnome-session-check-accelerated: File o directory non
esistente
gnome-session[4577]: WARNING: Session 'gdm-shell' runnable check failed: Child
process exited with code 127
<<<< [RELEVANT PART]

gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Session is not runnable
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Getting session 'gdm-fallback'
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Looking if /var/lib/gdm3/.config
/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-fallback.session is a valid session file
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): Cannot use session '/var/lib/gdm3/.config/gnome-
session/sessions/gdm-fallback.session': non-existing or invalid file.
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Looking if /etc/xdg/gnome-
session/sessions/gdm-fallback.session is a valid session file
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): Cannot use session '/etc/xdg/gnome-
session/sessions/gdm-fallback.session': non-existing or invalid file.
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Looking if /usr/share/gdm/greeter
/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-fallback.session is a valid session file
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): Cannot use session '/usr/share/gdm/greeter
/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-fallback.session': non-existing or invalid file.
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Looking if /usr/local/share/gnome-
session/sessions/gdm-fallback.session is a valid session file
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): Cannot use session '/usr/local/share/gnome-
session/sessions/gdm-fallback.session': non-existing or invalid file.
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Looking if /usr/share/gnome-
session/sessions/gdm-fallback.session is a valid session file
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Checking required components and
providers
gnome-session[4577]: DEBUG(+): fill: provider 'windowmanager' looking for
component: 'metacity'

gdm3 is looking for a non existent '/usr/lib/gdm3/gnome-session-check-
accelerated', while gnome-session-bin ships '/usr/lib/gnome-session/gnome-
session-check-accelerated'. Putting a proper symlink in '/usr/lib/gdm3' solves
the problem and makes me happy with the new shiny greeter :) .

Thanks! Best regards
--
Alessio Gaeta



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.6.0-5.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                             0.6.21-7
ii  adduser                                     3.113+nmu3
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                     0.12.1-2
ii  dconf-tools                                 0.12.1-2
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                       1.5.46
ii  dpkg                                        1.16.9
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                             1.34.1.1-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]           3.6.0-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                           3.6.0-1
ii  gnome-session-fallback [x-session-manager]  3.6.0-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                       3.6.1-1
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]        3.6.1-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                   3.6.0-1
ii  guake [x-terminal-emulator]                 0.4.3-3
ii  libaccountsservice0                         0.6.21-7
ii  libatk1.0-0                                 2.4.0-2
ii  libaudit0                                   1:1.7.18-1.1
ii  libc6                                       2.13-36
ii  libcairo-gobject2                           1.12.2-2
ii  libcairo2                                   1.12.2-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                          0.28-5
ii  libcanberra0                                0.28-5
ii  libfontconfig1                              2.9.0-7
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                          2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                2.34.1-2
ii  libglib2.0-bin                              2.34.1-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                  3.6.1-1
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                             2.36.4-1
ii  libselinux1                                 2.1.9-5
ii  libupower-glib1                             0.9.17-1
ii  libwrap0                                    7.6.q-24
ii  libx11-6                                    2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxau6                                     1:1.0.7-1
ii  libxdmcp6                                   1:1.1.1-1
ii  libxrandr2                                  2:1.3.2-2
ii  lsb-base                                    4.1+Debian8
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]                 1:2.34.3-3
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]                   3.6.1-1
ii  policykit-1-gnome                           0.105-2
ii  upower                                      0.9.17-1
ii  x11-common                                  1:7.7+1
ii  x11-xserver-utils                           7.7~3
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]                 278-2

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi2-core               2.7.1-1
ii  desktop-base               7.0.3
ii  gnome-icon-theme           3.6.0-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.6.0-1
ii  x11-xkb-utils              7.7~1
ii  xserver-xephyr             2:1.12.4-3
ii  xserver-xorg               1:7.7+1
ii  zenity                     3.4.0-2

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-orca            3.4.2-2
ii  gnome-shell           3.6.1-3
pn  gok                   <none>
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.4.1-5

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/gdm3/daemon.conf changed:
[daemon]
[security]
[xdmcp]
[greeter]
[chooser]
[debug]
Enable = true

/etc/gdm3/greeter.gsettings changed:
[org.gnome.desktop.session]
session-name='gdm-shell'
[org.gnome.login-screen]
logo='/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/places/debian-swirl.png'
fallback-logo='/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/places/debian-swirl.png'
[org.gnome.power-manager]
icon-policy='never'
[org.gnome.metacity]
compositing-manager=false


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



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