*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1686257 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1686257
Indeed sounds like the issue I was having -- marking as a duplicate.
FTR, I no longer see an issue with gdm3; but I had reinstalled my system
with Ubuntu-GNOME directly, and in that case it worked; so it wa
Mathieu, I strongly suspect that this bug is a duplicate of LP: #1686257
which was fixed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and up in the past week. Could you
check if GDM works for you now?
I apologize that this bug took so long to identify and fix. The Ubuntu
GNOME team obviously had not been testing a very mi