Bug#801191: nvidia-driver: gdm3 can't start anymore (acceleration check failed)

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 2015-10-07 at 13:42 +0200, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
> Package: nvidia-driver
> Version: 340.93-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
> I upgraded from 340.93-1 to 340.93-3.
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 
> Just booted the computer. When gdm3 was starting all I got was a screen with
> "Oops, something went wrong, click the button to logout" (or whatever the exact
> text was). Manually restarting gdm3 doesn't help.
> 
> I can't use gdm3 anymore. So I also can't easily use gnome or my whole desktop
> anymore
> 
> Please help! Everything worked fine until this upgrade of yesterday.

Hi,

That's a known issue. Workaround:

sudo adduser Debian-gdm video

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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