Bug#722930: Greeter does not start in gdm3 3.8

[Joachim Breitner]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.8.4-1
Severity: important

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Hi,

marked as important as it must work for others, otherwise there would be
more reports. Here, gdm3 has stopped working.

When I start gdm, it starts a few processes towards showing a greeter:

     ├─login───bash───gdm3─┬─gdm-simple-slav─┬─Xorg
     │                     │                 ├─gdm-session-wor─┬─gnome-session─┬─gnome-settings-───2*[{gnome-settings-}]
     │                     │                 │                 │               ├─gnome-shell───3*[{gnome-shell}]
     │                     │                 │                 │               └─3*[{gnome-session}]
     │                     │                 │                 └─2*[{gdm-session-wor}]
     │                     │                 └─2*[{gdm-simple-slav}]
     │                     └─2*[{gdm3}]

but nothing is shown on the screen, just a mouse pointer (moving).

/var/log/gdm3/:0-greeter.log
is full of many lines saying
gnome-session[3905]: dconf-CRITICAL: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung.  dconf will not work properly.
and a line
gnome-session[3905]: WARNING: Failed isActive call to ConsoleKit: Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.24" (uid=111 pid=3905 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-session --autostart /usr/share/gdm/") interface="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager" member="IsActive" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.10" (uid=0 pid=3038 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
and eventually
gnome-session[3905]: Gdk-WARNING: gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Die Ressource ist zur Zeit nicht verfügbar) on X server :0.

Fensterverwalter-Warnung:Log level 16: gnome-shell: Fatal IO error 11 (Die Ressource ist zur Zeit nicht verfügbar) on X server :0.


(gnome-settings-daemon:3925): Gdk-WARNING **: gnome-settings-daemon: Fatal IO error 11 (Die Ressource ist zur Zeit nicht verfügbar) on X server :0.


Geetings,
Joachim


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                       0.6.34-1
ii  adduser                               3.113+nmu3
ii  dconf-cli                             0.16.1-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend               0.16.1-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                 1.5.51
ii  gir1.2-gdm3                           3.8.4-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]     3.8.2.1-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                     3.8.2.1-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                 3.8.5-1
ii  gnome-shell                           3.8.4-1
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.8.4-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas             3.8.0-1
ii  libaccountsservice0                   0.6.34-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                           2.8.0-2
ii  libaudit1                             1:2.3.2-2
ii  libc6                                 2.17-92+b1
ii  libcairo-gobject2                     1.12.16-1
ii  libcairo2                             1.12.16-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                    0.30-2
ii  libcanberra0                          0.30-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                    2.28.2-1
ii  libgdm1                               3.8.4-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                          2.36.4-1
ii  libglib2.0-bin                        2.36.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                            3.8.4-1
ii  libpam-modules                        1.1.3-9
ii  libpam-runtime                        1.1.3-9
ii  libpam0g                              1.1.3-9
ii  libpango-1.0-0                        1.32.5-5+b1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                   1.32.5-5+b1
ii  librsvg2-common                       2.36.4-2
ii  libselinux1                           2.1.13-2
ii  libwrap0                              7.6.q-24
ii  libx11-6                              2:1.6.1-1
ii  libxau6                               1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxdmcp6                             1:1.1.1-1
ii  libxrandr2                            2:1.4.1-1
ii  lsb-base                              4.1+Debian12
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]           1:2.34.13-1
ii  policykit-1-gnome                     0.105-2
ii  upower                                0.9.21-3
ii  x11-common                            1:7.7+3
ii  x11-xserver-utils                     7.7~3
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           295-1

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi2-core               2.9.5-1
pn  desktop-base               <none>
ii  gnome-icon-theme           3.8.3-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.8.2.2-2
ii  x11-xkb-utils              7.7~1
pn  xserver-xephyr             <none>
ii  xserver-xorg               1:7.7+3
ii  zenity                     3.8.0-1

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
pn  gnome-orca            <none>
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.8.2-2

- -- Configuration Files:
/etc/gdm3/daemon.conf changed:
[daemon]
[security]
[xdmcp]
[greeter]
[chooser]
[debug]
Enable = true


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

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