Bug#731995: gdm3: gdm fails to allow login

[Rustom Mody]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun <
andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Control: severity -1 important
>
> Hi,
>
> On 12.12.2013 06:52, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
>> Package: gdm3
>> Version: 3.8.4-6
>> Severity: critical
>> Justification: breaks the whole system
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> Did a general upgrade yesterday.
>>
> [...]
>
>> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
>>
>
> Have you upgraded the linux kernel as well? The version you are using is
> quite outdated, as even stable has 3.2.
> I'm using the 3.11.10-1 linux kernel and gdm3 3.8.4-6 and do not have this
> problem, so please try to update the kernel.
>
> I reduced the severity to important, as it works for most people.
>
> Best regards,
> Andreas
>
>

Here is
$ sudo aptitude  dist-upgrade
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB


Above done after aptitude update

So as far as I can see there is nothing out of date for my given debian
system
(at least in principle!!)

Of course if you tell me which specific kernel package to install I can
try and let you know.
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