Bug#1009977: gdm3: Fails to start since 2022/04/19 on Debian/testing

[Adrian Kieß]

Dear Jeremy,

after a new gnome-shell package went into Debian/testing, logging in is
possible again. But the load time of GDM3 is still very long, and the
login-procedure takes minutes. After entering the credentials, GDM is
thinking very long and does nothing, then the login proceeds.

Also the login in the shell, when issuing ksu to login to root via
kererberos takes some seconds long. So it might be a bug in conjunction
with the authentification too.

In addition to that, I am currently experiencing a bug in the 5.17
kernel from Debian/testing, where after some hours of uptime one core
gets loaded fully with a kernel process. 

In the 5.16 and 5.17 kernels the load time of the ZSH shell is very
slow (may be disk access), so I am currently using an old 5.15 kernel.

My system:

adrian at g6 ~ % inxi
CPU: quad core Intel Xeon X3430 (-MCP-) speed/min/max: 2085/1197/2394
MHz Kernel: 5.15.0-2-amd64 x86_64 Up: 4h 17m Mem: 10022.3/15999.3 MiB
(62.6%) Storage: 11.79 TiB (49.1% used) Procs: 387 Shell: Zsh inxi:
3.3.15

Thank you very much for your attention.

Sincerely,

Adrian Kieß

On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 12:34:37 -0400
Jeremy Bicha <jeremy.bicha at canonical.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 11:51 AM Adrian Immanuel Kiess
> <adrian at mx.aik.onl> wrote:
> > GDM3 fails to load, after bringing up the system.
> 
> Please switch to a virtual terminal (like Ctrl+Alt+F3) and look for
> interesting messages in
> journalctl -b
> 
> Probably especially messages from gnome-shell or gdm
> 
> Thank you,
> Jeremy Bicha