Bug#766374: X Server not available after Sid update on 21 Oct.
Jürgen Kleber
jkleber2701 at t-online.de
Thu Oct 23 20:21:22 UTC 2014
Am Donnerstag, den 23.10.2014, 11:59 -0700 schrieb Don Armstrong:
> Control: retitle -1 gdm3 fails to load login screen (with less-than-useful error message)
> Control: severity -1 important
> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> Control: reassign -1 gdm3
> Control: found -1 3.14.1-1
>
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Jürgen Kleber wrote:
> > after updating the system on 21 Oct. the X server was no longer
> > working. For details, see
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766374 . Does
> > anybody have a Sid-System (AMD64; as a second system, not for daily
> > use) and could post the issue of apt-get update / apt-get dist-upgrade
> > to this list?
>
> This particular issue may be a bug in gdm3, not the X server. (If the X
> server wasn't starting, you generally wouldn't see any output at all.)
>
> Someone else may be able to give you more information on how you can
> debug this problem in gdm3.
>
> --
> Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com
>
> We must realize that today's Establishment is the New George III.
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> it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.
> -- William O. Douglas _Points of Rebellion_
>
>
I did not mention yet that I tried lightdm/xfce4 - and it failed, too.
You should assign the bug additionally to lightdm.
Kind regards, Jürgen
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