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

[Oscar Andreasson]

Hi, 

I'm having the same issue and removing the. ICEAuthority* files fixed the issue here as well. 

Thank you for the fix Philipp 😉. 

On Mon, 07 May 2018 11:08:14 +0200 Philipp Falk <philipp.falk at math.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> Package: gdm3
> Version: 3.22.3-3+deb9u1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I just wanted to confirm that I also encountered this bug on a debian
> stable installation.
> 
> I also see the "ICELockAuthFile fail: Already exists" message in
> the systemd journal.
> 
> Removing /var/lib/gdm3/.ICEAuthority* and restarting
> gdm.service fixed the issue temporarily until the next reboot.
> 
> If wayland is enabled via /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf, gdm3 comes up after
> some waiting time (around two minutes) on a cold boot.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 9.4
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
> ii  accountsservice                       0.6.43-1
> ii  adduser                               3.115
> ii  awesome [x-window-manager]            4.0-1
> ii  dconf-cli                             0.26.0-2+b1
> ii  dconf-gsettings-backend               0.26.0-2+b1
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                 1.5.61
> ii  fluxbox [x-window-manager]            1.3.5-2+b2
> ii  fvwm [x-window-manager]               1:2.6.7-3
> ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                        3.22.3-3+deb9u1
> ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]     3.22.3-1
> ii  gnome-session-bin                     3.22.3-1
> ii  gnome-settings-daemon                 3.22.2-2+deb9u2
> ii  gnome-shell                           3.22.3-3
> ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.22.2-1
> ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas             3.22.0-1
> ii  icewm [x-window-manager]              1.3.8+mod+20161220-1
> ii  libaccountsservice0                   0.6.43-1
> ii  libaudit1                             1:2.6.7-2
> ii  libc6                                 2.24-11+deb9u3
> ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                    0.30-3
> ii  libcanberra0                          0.30-3
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                    2.36.5-2+deb9u2
> ii  libgdm1                               3.22.3-3+deb9u1
> ii  libglib2.0-0                          2.50.3-2
> ii  libglib2.0-bin                        2.50.3-2
> ii  libgtk-3-0                            3.22.11-1
> ii  libkeyutils1                          1.5.9-9
> ii  libpam-modules                        1.1.8-3.6
> ii  libpam-runtime                        1.1.8-3.6
> ii  libpam-systemd                        232-25+deb9u2
> ii  libpam0g                              1.1.8-3.6
> ii  librsvg2-common                       2.40.16-1+b1
> ii  libselinux1                           2.6-3+b3


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