Bug#710058: gdm3: GNOME 3 windows are blank, solid blue, no text

[Ron McLeod]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.4.1-8
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
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    * What led up to the situation?
Just loaded the latest stable release.  I have a Geforce4 GPU.
ok if I use Gnome classic
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
updated driver to nvidia legacy 96xx using DKMS.  No effect
   * What was the outcome of this action?
Did not solve problem
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
Windows would work and not be solid blue.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                             0.6.21-8
ii  adduser                                     3.113+nmu3
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                     0.12.1-3
ii  dconf-tools                                 0.12.1-3
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                       1.5.49
ii  dpkg                                        1.16.10
ii  gir1.2-freedesktop                          1.32.1-1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                             1.32.1-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]           3.4.2.1-4
ii  gnome-session-bin                           3.4.2.1-4
ii  gnome-session-fallback [x-session-manager]  3.4.2.1-4
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                       3.4.2+git20121218.7c1322-3
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]        3.4.1.1-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                   3.4.2-3
ii  libaccountsservice0                         0.6.21-8
ii  libatk1.0-0                                 2.4.0-2
ii  libattr1                                    1:2.4.46-8
ii  libaudit0                                   1:1.7.18-1.1
ii  libc6                                       2.13-38
ii  libcairo-gobject2                           1.12.2-3
ii  libcairo2                                   1.12.2-3
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                          0.28-6
ii  libcanberra0                                0.28-6
ii  libdbus-1-3                                 1.6.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                            0.100.2-1
ii  libfontconfig1                              2.9.0-7.1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                          2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libglib2.0-bin                              2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgtk-3-0                                  3.4.2-6
ii  libpam-modules                              1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpam-runtime                              1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpam0g                                    1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpango1.0-0                               1.30.0-1
ii  librsvg2-common                             2.36.1-1
ii  libselinux1                                 2.1.9-5
ii  libupower-glib1                             0.9.17-1
ii  libwrap0                                    7.6.q-24
ii  libx11-6                                    2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  libxau6                                     1:1.0.7-1
ii  libxdmcp6                                   1:1.1.1-1
ii  libxklavier16                               5.2.1-1
ii  libxrandr2                                  2:1.3.2-2+deb7u1
ii  lsb-base                                    4.1+Debian8
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]                 1:2.34.3-4
ii  policykit-1-gnome                           0.105-2
ii  upower                                      0.9.17-1
ii  x11-common                                  1:7.7+2
ii  x11-xserver-utils                           7.7~3
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]                 278-4

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi2-core               2.5.3-2
ii  desktop-base               7.0.3
ii  gnome-icon-theme           3.4.0-2
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.4.0-2
ii  x11-xkb-utils              7.7~1
ii  xserver-xephyr             2:1.12.4-6
ii  xserver-xorg               1:7.7+2
ii  zenity                     3.4.0-2

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-orca            3.4.2-2
ii  gnome-shell           3.4.2-7
pn  gok                   <none>
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.4.1-5

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/pam.d/gdm3 changed:
auth    requisite       pam_nologin.so
@include common-auth
auth    optional        pam_gnome_keyring.so
@include common-account
session [success=ok ignore=ignore module_unknown=ignore default=bad]        pam_selinux.so close
session required        pam_limits.so
session required        pam_env.so readenv=1
session required        pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale
session required        pam_loginuid.so
@include common-session
session [success=ok ignore=ignore module_unknown=ignore default=bad]        pam_selinux.so open
session optional        pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
@include common-password


-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3