Bug#1116563: gdm3: Version 49 does not start properly

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Sun Sep 28 17:09:00 BST 2025


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On Sun, 28 Sep 2025 at 18:53:45 +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
>After I upgraded gdm3 to the version from experimental, it does not start
>anymore. Systemd reports that a process is running, but all I see is a
>blinking TTY cursor. There is no stdout/stderr, and the /var/log/gdm3
>directory is empty.

This version is working fine for me. Is anything of interest logged in
the systemd Journal?

If there isn't much there, `systemctl edit gdm.service` and adding

[Service]
Environment=DEBUG_INVOCATION=1

might help to get more information.

     smcv



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