Bug#711066: d-conf breaks gdm3: no possible login under X

[Vincent Lefevre]

retitle 711066 d-conf breaks gdm3: no possible login under X
reassign 711066 src:d-conf
severity 711066 critical
found 711066 0.16.0-3
thanks

On 2013-06-04 14:33:58 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> After upgrading some packages and logging out, gdm3 only shows the
> background image and the 3 mouse buttons don't have any effect. I can
> still log in via a text virtual console, e.g. after Ctrl-Alt-2 (not
> always taken into account), and I'm sending this bug report from it.
> I've attached the logs from /var/log/gdm3 (gdm3.tar.xz).
> 
> During the upgrade, I had a message saying that the X server had
> to be restarted (from dconf?), but this is what has been done when
> logging out.
> 
> Note: I use a locally rebuilt version of gdm3 after applying a patch,
> which shouldn't be related to this problem (which occurs earlier than
> the effect of the patch anyway). I've attached the corresponding
> script gdm3-deb.
> 
> I'm going to reboot the machine to see whether this solves the
> problem.

Rebooting the machine didn't solve the problem. But downgrading
*dconf* packages to 0.12.1-3 and rebooting the machine again did.

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