Bug#724731: #722930: gdm3: Greeter does not start in gdm3 3.8

[Leo 'costela' Antunes]

[cross-posting to #724731 - didn't want to take the liberty of merging
them, though they do look awfully similar]

I think I might have made some progress:
In libgjs0c's version in sid, at /usr/share/gjs-1.0/overrides/GLib.js,
line 199, there is the following snippet:

// g_variant_get_string has length as out argument
return variant.get_string()[0];

However the sid version of glib has different semantics for that
function [0]. The version of libgjs0c in experimental correctly removes
the "[0]" and seems to avoid the issue. So changing libgjs0c's
dependencies to more strictly match glib's version should solve the
first part of the problem.
Nevertheless, in my case this still wasn't the whole issue, as now
gnome-shell seems to start (calendar and the system menu are showing),
but still no sign of the greeter. But this may of course be a different
issue. I'll keep looking after some long overdue sleep... ;)


Cheers


[0] https://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.36/glib-GVariant.html

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Leo "costela" Antunes
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