Bug#759745: gdm3: Unable to login post-upgrade without systemd-sysv installed

[Michael Biebl]

Am 29.08.2014 23:34, schrieb Jeremy T. Bouse:
> Package: gdm3
> Version: 3.12.2-2.1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Performed routine aptitude upgrade and had new version of gdm installed.
> Shutdown laptop and upon restart was no longer presented with the login
> greeter. Gnome environment would work by getting to shell and running
> startx but was presented with a systemd-login error on the console shell
> when logging in. Installed systemd-sysv which purged sysinit-core, rebooted
> and the system was once again usable.
> 
> Suggest that there is a dependency not properly resolving in there to
> ensure that systemd is running as PID 1.

Might be a bug in systemd-shim. systemd-logind is supposed to work
stand-alone (under sysvinit/upstart). Could you poke the systemd-shim
maintainers please about this issue.

Thanks,
Michael


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