Bug#762165: gdm3 fails to give slave programs access to the display

[henk]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.14.1-7
Followup-For: Bug #762165

Dear Maintainer,

Upgrade from whezzy to jessie failed.
Existing NVIDIA driver (304) and settings (default gnome) where overwritten by
the process.
My NVIDIA GPU GeForce 7600 GS (G73)is not supported by the jessie drivers. That
was the message I got.

Now i have only the 304 driver installed an this seems to work.
Xorg starts without errors.
After gdm-Xorg-: ..
gdm3[1512]: Failed to give slave programs access to the display. Trying to
proceed.

And this causes a OOPS screen at boot.
With ctrl-alt-F1 the terminal is started. I log in and then I can do startx to
get the graphical interface. It is the default gnome.

I tried all advises. The Lightdm works, altough I have to wait longer before I
can log in.

All packages are up-to-date.

In systemlog also is:
gdm-session-worker[2120]: <5>AccountsService: SetLanguage call failed:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Interface
‘org.freedesktop.Accounts.User’ op object met pad
/org/freedesktop/Accounts/User112 bestaat niet
So it seems as if the user does not exist for gdm.
And further (after login):
console-kit-daemon[1154]: (process:2458): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config:
assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
console-kit-daemon[1154]: (process:2459): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config:
assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
console-kit-daemon[1154]: (process:2460): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config:
assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
and
gnome-session[2534]: (gnome-shell:2672): Gjs-WARNING **: JS ERROR: Exception in
callback for signal: startup-complete: Error: Requiring GSystem, version none:
Typelib file for namespace 'GSystem' (any version) not found

I do not know what is happening or what more has gone wrong during jessie
install (nginx was replaced with apache and ....)





-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                              0.6.37-3+b1
ii  adduser                                      3.113+nmu3
ii  dconf-cli                                    0.22.0-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                      0.22.0-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                        1.5.56
ii  fluxbox [x-window-manager]                   1.3.5-2
ii  gir1.2-gdm3                                  3.14.1-7
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]            3.14.0-2
ii  gnome-session-bin                            3.14.0-2
ii  gnome-session-flashback [x-session-manager]  3.8.1-7
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.14.2-3
ii  gnome-shell                                  3.14.4-1~deb8u1
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]         3.14.1-1+deb8u1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.14.1-1
ii  libaccountsservice0                          0.6.37-3+b1
ii  libaudit1                                    1:2.4-1+b1
ii  libc6                                        2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-2.1
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-2.1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.31.1-2+deb8u3
ii  libgdm1                                      3.14.1-7
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.42.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-bin                               2.42.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.14.5-1+deb8u1
ii  libpam-modules                               1.1.8-3.1
ii  libpam-runtime                               1.1.8-3.1
ii  libpam-systemd                               215-17+deb8u2
ii  libpam0g                                     1.1.8-3.1
ii  librsvg2-common                              2.40.5-1
ii  libselinux1                                  2.3-2
ii  libsystemd0                                  215-17+deb8u2
ii  libwrap0                                     7.6.q-25
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxau6                                      1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxdmcp6                                    1:1.1.1-1+b1
ii  libxrandr2                                   2:1.4.2-1+b1
ii  lsb-base                                     4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]                  1:3.14.3-1
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]                    3.14.4-1~deb8u1
ii  policykit-1                                  0.105-8
ii  ucf                                          3.0030
ii  x11-common                                   1:7.7+7
ii  x11-xserver-utils                            7.7+3+b1
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]                  312-2

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi2-core               2.14.0-1
ii  desktop-base               8.0.2
ii  gnome-icon-theme           3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.12.0-1
ii  x11-xkb-utils              7.7+1
ii  xserver-xephyr             2:1.16.4-1
ii  xserver-xorg               1:7.7+7
ii  zenity                     3.14.0-1

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-orca            3.14.0-4
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.14.0-1+b1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/gdm3/greeter.gsettings c174f4b4052874d1918d18ccadb6a027 [Errno 2] Bestand of map bestaat niet: u'/etc/gdm3/greeter.gsettings c174f4b4052874d1918d18ccadb6a027'

-- debconf information:
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3