Bug#906266: [gdm3] Starting a session requires more than two minutes unless mouse is moved

[Simon McVittie]

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On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 at 10:43:16 +0200, rastersoft wrote:
> When I boot my system and GDM3 login screen is shown, I just press Return to
> choose the default user (which is me), type the password, and press Return
> again (notice that I'm NOT using the mouse for any of these actions, only
> the keyboard). If I just wait, the system seems to do "nothing" and doesn't
> start the Gnome shell session until about two-three minutes (yes, between
> 120 and 180 seconds). But if I keep moving the mouse after pressing Return
> for the password, the Gnome shell session is shown in less than ten seconds.

Is anything interesting logged in the system log (/var/log/syslog or the
systemd Journal) during this time?

> libc6 (>= 2.14) |
> libcanberra-gtk3-0 (>= 0.25) |

Your bug-reporting tool seems to be broken: it was not able to report
the versions of related packages that you have installed. Are you using
reportbug-ng, which suffers from <https://bugs.debian.org/841527>? If so,
please use the standard reportbug tool.

    smcv