Bug#731995: gdm3 needs linux >= 3.2

[Rustom Mody]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Andreas Cadhalpun
<andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Control: severity -1 minor
> Control: retitle -1 gdm3 breaks linux <=2.6
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> thanks for the explanation.
>
>
> On 16.12.2013 18:54, Simon McVittie wrote:
>>
>> As far as I'm aware, Debian does not support upgrades from version n to
>> version n+2: when jessie becomes stable (as Debian 8), if you have a
>> machine that still runs squeeze (Debian 6), you're expected to complete
>> the upgrade to wheezy (Debian 7), and in particular reboot into a wheezy
>> kernel, before you start upgrading to jessie. The same applies while
>> jessie is still testing: to go from oldstable to testing, upgrade to
>> stable first.
>
> So this is a minor bug (if at all), and the maintainers can decide, whether
> or not they want to do anything about it.

I dont understand too much of this
However I dont think the bug as it surfaced for me has anything to do with
n -> n+2 upgrades (oldstable to testing).

In particular I am on jessie for months
I upgrade about once every few weeks
And I was using a 2.6 kernel with everything showing as uptodate
Maybe not a gdm specific bug but certainly a bug since it made my
system almost unusable

[Is there some log I can set/see as to why gdm crashed?]

Rusi