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

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Gregory,


Am Dienstag, den 09.10.2012, 23:48 +1300 schrieb Gregory Plummer:

> I just want to check my reply to you was received?

yes, I received your reply. Sorry, that it took me so long to reply.

> I am not sure how to attach files in Google Groups and instead replied
> directly to your email address.

That is not so good. The great thing about the Debian BTS is that you
can add comments by using the simple email. Just add the address
<689381 at bugs.debian.org> to the CC list. (Just use reply to all in your
mailing program like Google Mail, but better Icedove or Evolution or
Mutt or ….)

Additionally it would be great if you could adhere to the netiquette
[1]. Especially, please just sent plain text messages and *no* HTML and
please use the interleaved style in your replies. Lastly, you do not
need to compress log files.

Reading your original report again and you wrote you are just seeing the
default background, is it alright after logging in (into GNOME?) or do
you have to reboot? I am asking because the `dmesg` log suggests you
were using that system for quite some time.

Since I could not find anything suspicious in your log files, could you
please attach the `xrandr -q --verbose` output next time. Just seeing
the background and being able to log in sounds like, the system thinks a
monitor is attached and renders the windows there.


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette
  (Google Mail is not that great either, as it does not allow to
deactivate automatic line wrapping.)

PS: I am leaving the private conversion at the end for archival
purposes. Please delete in your next reply.


> On 4 October 2012 15:48, Gregory Plummer wrote:
> 
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > Thank you for your reply, it is nice to hear my bug report has been
> > reviewed.
> >
> > 1. The problem only occasionally arises so I would describe it
> > as intermittent. Sorry for my initial bad spelling :) I believe I
> started
> > with a fresh install of Debian 6.0.3 and have used the package
> manager to
> > stay up to date. Does this mean I have been upgraded as System
> Monitor
> > reads release 6.06. Initially I had not been using Debian all that
> much so
> > cannot say if this has been a problem from the get go.
> >
> > 2. The output of `dpkg -l gdm3` is:
> >
> > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> > |
> >
> Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> > |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> > ||/ Name           Version        Description
> >
> >
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> > ii  gdm3           2.30.5-6squeez Next generation GNOME Display
> Manager
> >
> > 3. I hope I have attached the correct files.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Gregory Plummer
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