Bug#973485: gdm3 starts gnome instead of .xsession even when "Default X11 session" is selected

[Christoph Berg]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.38.1-2
Severity: grave

gdm3 does not start my ~/.xsession anymore but boots gnome instead.

Sorry if that bug was already reported, but no way I'm going to read
through the 300 (!) open gdm3 bugs. Please do some BTS house keeping.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de:en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                       0.6.55-3
ii  adduser                               3.118
ii  awesome [x-window-manager]            4.3-5
ii  dbus                                  1.12.20-1
ii  dconf-cli                             0.38.0-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend               0.38.0-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                 1.5.74
ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                        3.38.1-2
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]     3.38.0-2
ii  gnome-session-bin                     3.38.0-2
ii  gnome-session-common                  3.38.0-2
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                 3.38.0-2
ii  gnome-shell                           3.38.1-1
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.38.0-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas             3.38.0-2
ii  libaccountsservice0                   0.6.55-3
ii  libaudit1                             1:2.8.5-3.1
ii  libc6                                 2.31-4
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                    0.30-7
ii  libcanberra0                          0.30-7
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                    2.40.0+dfsg-5
ii  libgdm1                               3.38.1-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                          2.66.1-2
ii  libglib2.0-bin                        2.66.1-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                            3.24.23-2
ii  libkeyutils1                          1.6.1-2
ii  libpam-modules                        1.3.1-5
ii  libpam-runtime                        1.3.1-5
ii  libpam-systemd                        246.6-2
ii  libpam0g                              1.3.1-5
ii  librsvg2-common                       2.50.1+dfsg-1
ii  libselinux1                           3.1-2+b1
ii  libsystemd0                           246.6-2
ii  libx11-6                              2:1.6.12-1
ii  libxau6                               1:1.0.8-1+b2
ii  libxcb1                               1.14-2
ii  libxdmcp6                             1:1.1.2-3
ii  lsb-base                              11.1.0
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]             3.38.0-2
ii  policykit-1                           0.105-29
ii  procps                                2:3.3.16-5
ii  rxvt-unicode [x-terminal-emulator]    9.22-8
ii  ucf                                   3.0043
ii  x11-common                            1:7.7+21
ii  x11-xserver-utils                     7.7+8

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi2-core    2.38.0-2
ii  desktop-base    10.0.3
ii  x11-xkb-utils   7.7+5
ii  xserver-xephyr  2:1.20.8-2
ii  xserver-xorg    1:7.7+21
ii  zenity          3.32.0-6

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
pn  gnome-orca            <none>
pn  libpam-fprintd        <none>
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.36.0-1

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

Christoph