Bug#706921: gnome-desktop-environment: Unable to start (even xdm) after gnome-desktop-environment installed

[David Creelman]

Package: gnome-desktop-environment
Version: 1:3.8+4
Followup-For: Bug #706921

Dear Maintainer,

Needed to install gnome to get policy stuff for xfce4.
installed gnome, restarted machine and got rubbish for what I assume is gnome login screen.
When trying to kill off gnome-session, machine almost locks up. 
When killing it failed, tried rebooting to see if it was a one off, but even shutdown has trouble killing
off one of the gnome processes.

Only way to get things working again is to remove gnome-desktop-environment.
When I did this sanity returned (with xdm as the login).

Expected I would be able to use gnome on this machine (which is not that old) Dell 820, Dual core 32 bit.

Please let me know if you would like more information.

Thanks & Regards,
David


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-desktop-environment depends on:
ii  gnome  1:3.8+4

gnome-desktop-environment recommends no packages.

gnome-desktop-environment suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information