Bug#774177: gdm3: dual monitor configuration not restored on reboot

[Stephen Hemminger]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.14.1-3
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

On my dual monitor system, the two screens come up in an awkward orientation
(left-right and primary-secondary).  This can be fixed by usin Gnome settings
for display, and the result is stored correctly in .config/monitors.xml
but is lost on reboot.

I suspect a race in the systemd startup or something because
the file ~/.config/monitors.xml is missing on reboot. If copy
and apply the file manually (using scripts that were floating around
for a similar bug in Ubuntu), then the orientation is corrected.

Note: I do not have any xorg.conf on system and xrandr reports
monitors correctly.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.18.0 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                              0.6.37-3+b1
ii  adduser                                      3.113+nmu3
ii  dconf-cli                                    0.22.0-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                      0.22.0-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                        1.5.55
ii  gir1.2-gdm3                                  3.14.1-3
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]            3.14.0-2
ii  gnome-session-bin                            3.14.0-2
ii  gnome-session-flashback [x-session-manager]  3.8.1-7
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.14.2-2
ii  gnome-shell                                  3.14.2-3
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]         3.14.1-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.14.1-1
ii  libaccountsservice0                          0.6.37-3+b1
ii  libaudit1                                    1:2.4-1+b1
ii  libc6                                        2.19-13
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-2.1
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-2.1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libgdm1                                      3.14.1-3
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.42.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-bin                               2.42.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.14.5-1
ii  libpam-modules                               1.1.8-3.1
ii  libpam-runtime                               1.1.8-3.1
ii  libpam-systemd                               215-8
ii  libpam0g                                     1.1.8-3.1
ii  librsvg2-common                              2.40.5-1
ii  libselinux1                                  2.3-2
ii  libsystemd0                                  215-8
ii  libwrap0                                     7.6.q-25
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxau6                                      1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxdmcp6                                    1:1.1.1-1+b1
ii  libxrandr2                                   2:1.4.2-1+b1
ii  lsb-base                                     4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]                  1:3.14.3-1
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]                    3.14.2-1
ii  policykit-1                                  0.105-8
ii  rxvt-unicode [x-terminal-emulator]           9.20-1+b1
ii  ucf                                          3.0030
ii  x11-common                                   1:7.7+7
ii  x11-xserver-utils                            7.7+3+b1
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]                  312-1

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi2-core               2.14.0-1
ii  desktop-base               8.0.2
ii  gnome-icon-theme           3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.12.0-1
ii  x11-xkb-utils              7.7+1
ii  xserver-xephyr             2:1.16.2.901-1
ii  xserver-xorg               1:7.7+7
ii  zenity                     3.14.0-1

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-orca            3.14.0-2
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.14.0-1+b1

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