Bug#897975: gdm3: System fails to boot due to GDM restarting constantly.

[Mladen Mijatov]

Looks like it does boot after ten minutes or so. It seems only Wayland
variant of gdm is failing. Gnome on Wayland has no issues though.

On Sat, May 5, 2018, 14:00 Mladen Mijatov <meaneye.rcf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Package: gdm3
> Version: 3.28.1-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> After recent update system is unable to boot due to GDM3 constantly
> restarting.
> Journal contained message "IceLockAuthFile fail: Already exists" before GDM
> exiting and starting againg.
>
> Other than this I was unable to find any other issue.
>
> Only solution I could find to make my system usable again is to install
> LigthDM
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
> ii  accountsservice                       0.6.45-1
> ii  adduser                               3.117
> ii  dconf-cli                             0.28.0-2
> ii  dconf-gsettings-backend               0.28.0-2
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                 1.5.66
> ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                        3.28.1-1
> ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]     3.28.1-1
> ii  gnome-session-bin                     3.28.1-1
> ii  gnome-settings-daemon                 3.28.1-1
> ii  gnome-shell                           3.28.0-1+b1
> ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.28.0-1
> ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas             3.28.0-1
> ii  libaccountsservice0                   0.6.45-1
> ii  libaudit1                             1:2.8.2-1
> ii  libc6                                 2.27-3
> ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                    0.30-6
> ii  libcanberra0                          0.30-6
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                    2.36.11-2
> ii  libgdm1                               3.28.1-1
> ii  libglib2.0-0                          2.56.1-2
> ii  libglib2.0-bin                        2.56.1-2
> ii  libgtk-3-0                            3.22.29-3
> ii  libkeyutils1                          1.5.9-9.2
> ii  libpam-modules                        1.1.8-3.7
> ii  libpam-runtime                        1.1.8-3.7
> ii  libpam-systemd                        238-4
> ii  libpam0g                              1.1.8-3.7
> ii  librsvg2-common                       2.40.20-2
> ii  libselinux1                           2.7-2+b2
> ii  libsystemd0                           238-4
> ii  libwrap0                              7.6.q-27
> ii  libx11-6                              2:1.6.5-1
> ii  libxau6                               1:1.0.8-1+b2
> ii  libxcb1                               1.13-1
> ii  libxdmcp6                             1:1.1.2-3
> ii  lsb-base                              9.20170808
> ii  mutter [x-window-manager]             3.28.1-2
> ii  policykit-1                           0.105-20
> ii  ucf                                   3.0038
> ii  x11-common                            1:7.7+19
> ii  x11-xserver-utils                     7.7+8
>
> Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
> ii  at-spi2-core    2.28.0-2
> ii  desktop-base    9.0.5
> ii  x11-xkb-utils   7.7+4
> ii  xserver-xephyr  2:1.19.6-1
> ii  xserver-xorg    1:7.7+19
> ii  zenity          3.28.1-1
>
> Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
> pn  gnome-orca            <none>
> pn  libpam-fprintd        <none>
> ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.28.0.2-1
>
> -- debconf information:
> * shared/default-x-display-manager: lightdm
>   gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3
>
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