Bug#761001: Gnome3/Gdm3 gone :-)

Wed Oct 29 15:10:50 UTC 2014

Hi Kurt, 

What is your system (CPU/GPU)?  Do you see the same kind of syslog as I
quote below?

I see linux-kernel mesa and mutter are updated on my system yesterday.
Maybe one of these are causing this.

Here is my situation.

 * GDM3 crashes after upgrade yesterday (testing).
   upgrading to unstable version does not fix.
   gdm3 3.14.0-1 MIGRATED to testing 2014-10-18 *** suspicious but ...
 * Logging into GNOME3 (normal and fall back) from KDM crashes.
 * Logging into XFce (GTK3+) and KDE (Qt) works as long as KDM or lightdm
   are used.
 * xorg has not changed since 2014-04-07.  So they are not to be blamed.
 * systemd (logind) has not changed since [2014-10-06] So they are not
   to be blamed.

I have Intel integrated graphics (on Haswell i5)

Something specific in the lower level of GNOME3 broke this system.
If gdm3 was the real cause, this breakage should have happened before.

I found the following in my syslog when GDM3 failed.

This is strange.

....
Oct 29 20:19:58 goofy gdm3[639]: Failed to give slave programs access to the display. Trying to proceed.

...

Oct 29 20:19:58 goofy /usr/bin/dbus-launch[1020]: Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Oct 29 20:19:58 goofy /usr/bin/dbus-launch[1020]: Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Oct 29 20:19:58 goofy /usr/bin/dbus-launch[1020]: Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Oct 29 20:19:58 goofy /usr/bin/dbus-launch[1020]: gnome-session-is-accelerated: No hardware 3D support.
Oct 29 20:19:58 goofy /usr/bin/dbus-launch[1020]: Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Oct 29 20:19:58 goofy /usr/bin/dbus-launch[1020]: gnome-session-check-accelerated: Helper exited with code 256
....

Looking into apt log:
Start-Date: 2014-10-27  01:04:40
Commandline: apt-get dist-upgrade -y
Install: linux-image-3.16-3-amd64:amd64 (3.16.5-1, automatic)
Upgrade: valac:amd64 (0.26.0-1, 0.26.1-1), empathy-common:amd64 (3.12.6-1, 3.12.7-1), empathy:amd64 (3.12.6-1, 3.12.7-1), gir1.2-evince-3.0:amd64 (3.14.0-2, 3.14.1-1), libblas-common:amd64 (1.2.20110419-9, 1.2.20110419-10), libgee-0.8-dev:amd64 (0.14.0-3, 0.16.1-1), iw:amd64 (3.14-1, 3.17-1), valac-0.26-vapi:amd64 (0.26.0-1, 0.26.1-1), evince:amd64 (3.14.0-2, 3.14.1-1), libblas3:amd64 (1.2.20110419-9, 1.2.20110419-10), valac-0.26:amd64 (0.26.0-1, 0.26.1-1), libgee-0.8-2:amd64 (0.14.0-3, 0.16.1-1), gir1.2-gee-0.8:amd64 (0.14.0-3, 0.16.1-1), gnome-backgrounds:amd64 (3.14.0-1, 3.14.1-1), liblapack3:amd64 (3.5.0-3, 3.5.0-4), evince-common:amd64 (3.14.0-2, 3.14.1-1), libldap-2.4-2:amd64 (2.4.39-1.1+b1, 2.4.40-2), baobab:amd64 (3.14.0-1, 3.14.1-1), dictionaries-common:amd64 (1.23.12, 1.23.14), libevview3-3:amd64 (3.14.0-2, 3.14.1-1), linux-image-amd64:amd64 (3.16+61, 3.16+62), manpages-dev:amd64 (3.71-1, 3.74-1), libvala-0.26-0:amd64 (0.26.0-1, 0.26.1-1), manpages:amd64 (3.71-1, 3.74-1), libevdocument3-4:amd64 (3.14.0-2, 3.14.1-1), linux-libc-dev:amd64 (3.16.3-2, 3.16.5-1), whois:amd64 (5.2.0, 5.2.1)
End-Date: 2014-10-27  01:05:23

Start-Date: 2014-10-27  01:05:23
Commandline: apt-get autoremove -y
Remove: linux-image-3.14-2-amd64:amd64 (3.14.15-2), libgnutls26:amd64 (2.12.23-17)
End-Date: 2014-10-27  01:05:25

Start-Date: 2014-10-27  23:09:26
Commandline: apt-get dist-upgrade
Install: libllvm3.5:amd64 (3.5-6, automatic)
Upgrade: libio-socket-ssl-perl:amd64 (1.998-1, 2.002-1), libfontembed1:amd64 (1.0.59-1, 1.0.61-2), libegl1-mesa:amd64 (10.2.8-1, 10.3.1-1), libopenvg1-mesa:amd64 (10.2.8-1, 10.3.1-1), libegl1-mesa-drivers:amd64 (10.2.8-1, 10.3.1-1), foomatic-db-compressed-ppds:amd64 (20140730-1, 20141016-1), libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 (10.2.8-1, 10.3.1-1), openprinting-ppds:amd64 (20140730-1, 20141016-1), libglapi-mesa:amd64 (10.2.8-1, 10.3.1-1), gir1.2-mutter-3.0:amd64 (3.14.0-1, 3.14.1-1), cups-browsed:amd64 (1.0.59-1, 1.0.61-2), libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 (10.2.8-1, 10.3.1-1), cups-filters-core-drivers:amd64 (1.0.59-1, 1.0.61-2), libxatracker2:amd64 (10.2.8-1, 10.3.1-1), libwayland-egl1-mesa:amd64 (10.2.8-1, 10.3.1-1), cups-filters:amd64 (1.0.59-1, 1.0.61-2), libgbm1:amd64 (10.2.8-1, 10.3.1-1), mutter-common:amd64 (3.14.0-1, 3.14.1-1), libmutter0e:amd64 (3.14.0-1, 3.14.1-1), libcupsfilters1:amd64 (1.0.59-1, 1.0.61-2)
End-Date: 2014-10-27  23:09:38

Start-Date: 2014-10-27  23:15:48
Install: locales:amd64 (2.19-11)
Remove: libllvm3.4:amd64 (3.4.2-10)
End-Date: 2014-10-27  23:15:52

Regards,

Osamu