Bug#785782: greeter screen appears without login prompt

[Daniel Pocock]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.14.1-7
Severity: serious

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.

Somebody mentions having systemd-ui on their system, I don't have that
package though, should it have been installed?

I also tried adding task-gnome-desktop but that didn't help.

Regards,

Daniel