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

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Gregory,


Am Freitag, den 19.10.2012, 09:49 +1300 schrieb Gregory Plummer:

> Sorry for my late reply.

no problem at all.

> On most occasions when this bug has arisen I have been able to log in
> and everything loads fine.

Could you describe what happens? So GDM default background with no
window, then you enter your credentials and hit enter. Then what. The
background is loaded and fades in and after some time the GNOME panel
appears?

> A couple of times the gnome panel has not appeared and I had to reboot
> my laptop.

So just the background with your icons and no top and bottom panel? I
guess that is a separate problem which should be reported as a separate
bug. Preferable when this happens log in over SSH, do

    reportbug gnome-panel

and make sure to attach `~/.xsession-errors` and the output of `dmesg`
(or `/var/log/kern.log`).

> Just so you know, I have never uses an additional monitor with this
> laptop.

Thanks for the information.

> Here is the output from xrandr you wanted.

[…]

Thanks! It does not show anything weird. Could you please clarify how
you captured this output? After logging in, when everything was fine?

Please make sure to always note the current circumstances when capturing
something as it is very hard otherwise to comprehend what is going on.

Also please attach the output under system information of `reportbug
gdm` or `reportbug gdm3`.


Thanks,

Paul
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