Bug#689381: general: Login screen fails to appear, though you can still interact with it

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Gregory,


thank you very much for your report.

Am Dienstag, den 02.10.2012, 17:05 +1300 schrieb Gregory:
> Package: general
> Severity: important

Jesse and Holger reassigned this to GDM.

> After booting into Debian 6.0.6 the login screen fails to appear. This is an
> intermittant problem.

Do you mean important instead of intermittant?

> I still hear the sound associated with the login screen and can interact with
> it (eg enter my password and log in) but the screen itself is not visible. The
> only thing visible is the default background colour.

Thank you for the detailed description. Unfortunately this is still not
enough information to solve this issue. So we need your help!

1. Is that a fresh install or did you upgrade from 6.0.5? Did it work
before?

2. What is the output of `dpkg -l gdm3`?

3. Please attach the following files. If you do not know how to do that,
please ask. (Short: Change to tty1 (Ctrl + Alt + 1) log in and copy the
files to some USB medium (udisks --mount /dev/sdX1, where X has to be
replaced by the correct character). Or log in over SSH since networking
hopefully still works.)

        /var/log/syslog
        /var/log/Xorg.0.log
        /var/log/gdm*
        dmesg > 20121003.dmesg


Thanks,

Paul
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