Bug#785782: greeter screen appears without login prompt

[Laurent Bigonville]

On Wed, 20 May 2015 09:04:44 +0200 Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro>
wrote:

Hi,

> After dist-upgrade to jessie, I encountered the problem described
> here:
> 
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724731
> 
> Basically, the greeter screen appears but without any login field or
> list of users.
> 
> In my case, Lucas's solution was necessary:
> 
>   pam-auth-update --force
>   systemctl restart gdm3
> 
> 
> and now I can log in.

Well IMHO that was related to a local PAM configuration issue, probably
a missing call to pam_systemd or something that was preventing gdm to
access the dri device as no session was registered.

Not sure that we can do anything for that.

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville