Bug#801749: gdm3: Does not start anymore

2016-02-20 Thread Christophe Schockaert
Package: gdm3 Followup-For: Bug #801749 After upgrading to current testing/stretch, the problem disappeared. The versions for gdm3 and gnome-shell did not change from my previous mail. There are 2 messages left in dmesg, but they appear only once: [ 53.168027] systemd-logind[2456]: Failed to

Bug#801749: gdm3: Does not start anymore

2015-11-09 Thread phep
Hi, Just to complement my previous message: - all of the local users were in the 'video' group for long, - using lightdm works with no problem; I can even use the xfswitch-plugin applet overriding gdmflexiserver as indicated in the Ubuntu documentation (https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Xfce_Panel_P

Bug#801749: gdm3: Does not start anymore

2015-11-08 Thread phep
Hi, Same problem here (on a desktop box, no VM or container) after upgrading my testing box. I got the "Oh no..." screen every time. Installing xserver-xorg-legacy did not help, even when I allowed "anybody" and forced "yes" for "needs_root_rights". Downgrading gdm3 to 3.14.2 finally made t

Bug#801749: gdm3: Does not start anymore

2015-11-02 Thread Simon Chopin
I had the same bug, both on a desktop machine with the nvidia driver and on a Virtualbox VM. A workaround has been to install xserver-xorg-legacy (works at least on the VM, I haven't tried on the other one). Thank you ximion for the tip.

Bug#801749: gdm3: Does not start anymore

2015-10-23 Thread Michal Politowski
Package: gdm3 Version: 3.18.0-2 Followup-For: Bug #801749 Same problem here. Or at least the same logs (journalctl -u gdm.service attached). Instead of flickering immediate restarts I see the annoying "Oh no! Something has gone wrong." screen, which keeps reappearing after clicking 'Log Out' (bef

Bug#801749: gdm3: Does not start anymore

2015-10-20 Thread Stephen Kitt
I had this problem too after the latest testing migration. Purging weston allowed gdm3 to start for me... Regards, Stephen

Bug#801749: gdm3: Does not start anymore

2015-10-16 Thread Floris
Same problem here. Updating gdm3 to 3.18 results in a flickering screen. (the X server is started over and over again) The output of journalctl -b is here: http://www.jkfloris.dds.nl/gdm3-update After downgrading to 3.14 (testing) gdm3 does show the login prompt, but gnome does not load. Ou

Bug#801749: gdm3: Does not start anymore

2015-10-14 Thread Daniel Franganillo
Package: gdm3 Version: 3.18.0-2 Severity: important After the update to 3.18 GDM3 does not allow me to login properly into my X session. I just does not start. If I do a 'service gdm3 restart' in the tty the only thing that happens is a flicker in the monitor. Right now I'm loggin into my session