Bug#769960: Possible problem with nvidia drivers ? (Re: gdm3: upgrade from 3.14.0 to 3.14.1 results in blank screen)

[Charles Plessy]

Hi all,

I had a problem that looked similar, but was caused by a strange interaction
with other pacakges (probably xserver-xorg-video-nvidia).

On my side, on two desktop machines, I also had GNOME crashing on start after
an update to Jessie.  To my surprise this was caused by the presence of NVIDIA
drivers or something in their dependancy chain, that were freshly installed
during the updgrade, while the machine's graphic card were either Intel or AMD.
Purging every package with nvidia in the name solved the problem (but I can not
exclude that the problem was really solved by the autoremovals that came with
the purge).

Martin, if you have non-free enabled, maybe it is worth trying to purge the
non-free nvidia drivers if they are pressent on your machines ?

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan