Bug#716778: gnome-session: session is unusable (looks like memory problem)

[Axel Stammler]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 3.4.2.1-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

in a new installation (not an upgrade) upon first login (greeter and login worked perfectly), the user name and other texts are displayed with missing letters (e.g. the user name, "Emil" is displayed as "Em l"). The Super_L key and <Alt><F1> work as expected but no programs can be started as everything just shows up as blue windows. These windows have the expected size and seem to receive keyboard input as well as pass it on to the respective program, e.g. Terminal. No output is visible, though. The programs can be stopped in the normal way, e.g. by (blindly) typing <Ctrl>D in the Terminal window. Logout is also possible without problems. I have tried reinstalling first gdm3 and gnome-session and the the whole system without effect.

This is my second installation of Wheezy. The first was on an Eee PC, and there logins and programs work well.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gnome-session-bin      3.4.2.1-4
ii  gnome-session-common   3.4.2.1-4
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.4.2+git20121218.7c1322-3+deb7u1
ii  gnome-shell            3.4.2-7

Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager     3.4.0-2
ii  gnome-session-fallback  3.4.2.1-4

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base      7.0.3
ii  gnome-keyring     3.4.1-5
ii  gnome-user-guide  3.4.2-1+build1

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