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has caused the Debian Bug report #969106,
regarding gdm3 can only start a gnome session, any other (e.g. mate, icewm,
gnome on xorg...) fails
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969106: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=969106
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: gdm3
Version: 3.36.2-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I don't know exactly with which version of gdm3 this occurred,
but with the current one I am forced to choose "GNOME" as a session
when logging in with the login manager. Any other choice just
results in getting back to the login manager. And by "any" I mean
also any other GNOME session, like "GNOME on Xorg", "GNOME fallback"...
Only GNOME (which defaults running on Wayland) successfuly starts
a user session. Due to this, I was currently forced to install
another login manager (lightdm) and use that, since that enables me
to use GNOME on Xorg (quite some apps still have problems on
Wayland). And I want to be able to use other sessions, in case GNOME
gets temporarily broken by some sid upgrade (it happened a number of
times, and being able to run MATE proved then to be absolutely
necessary).
I would gladly produce any debugging info that may help tracing and
solving this problem. Just give me directions on what you want me to
test and what log files to collect and send.
Thanks, best regards
Giacomo Mulas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (401, 'unstable'), (10, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.7.17-jak (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to it_IT.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=it_IT,en_EN
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii accountsservice 0.6.55-3
ii adduser 3.118
ii cinnamon [x-window-manager] 4.6.7-1
ii cinnamon-session [x-session-manager] 4.6.2-1
ii cwm [x-window-manager] 6.6-2
ii dbus 1.12.20-1
ii dconf-cli 0.36.0-1
ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.36.0-1
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.74
ii gir1.2-gdm-1.0 3.36.2-1
ii gnome-session [x-session-manager] 3.36.0-2
ii gnome-session-bin 3.36.0-2+b1
ii gnome-session-flashback [x-session-manager] 3.36.4-1
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.36.1-1
ii gnome-shell 3.36.5-1
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.36.2-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.36.1-1
ii icewm [x-window-manager] 1.6.6-1
ii icewm-experimental [x-window-manager] 1.6.6-1
ii kitty [x-terminal-emulator] 0.18.3-1
ii konsole [x-terminal-emulator] 4:20.08.0-1
ii kwin-x11 [x-window-manager] 4:5.17.5-2+b1
ii libaccountsservice0 0.6.55-3
ii libaudit1 1:2.8.5-3+b1
ii libc6 2.31-3
ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-7
ii libcanberra0 0.30-7
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.40.0+dfsg-5
ii libgdm1 3.36.2-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.64.4-1
ii libglib2.0-bin 2.64.4-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.22-1
ii libkeyutils1 1.6.1-2
ii libpam-modules 1.3.1-5
ii libpam-runtime 1.3.1-5
ii libpam-systemd 246.2-1
ii libpam0g 1.3.1-5
ii librsvg2-common 2.48.7-1
ii libselinux1 3.1-2
ii libsystemd0 246.2-1
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-30
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.10-3
ii libxau6 1:1.0.8-1+b2
ii libxcb1 1.14-2
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.2-3
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
ii marco [x-window-manager] 1.24.1-1
ii mate-session-manager [x-session-manager] 1.24.1-1
ii mate-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 1.24.1-1
ii metacity [x-window-manager] 1:3.36.1-1
ii muffin [x-window-manager] 4.6.3-1
ii mutter [x-window-manager] 3.36.5-1
ii mwm [x-window-manager] 2.3.8-3
ii openbox [x-window-manager] 3.6.1-9
ii plasma-workspace [x-session-manager] 4:5.17.5-4
ii policykit-1 0.105-29
ii procps 2:3.3.16-5
ii sawfish [x-window-manager] 1:1.11.90-1.1+b1
ii twm [x-window-manager] 1:1.0.10-1
ii ucf 3.0043
ii x11-common 1:7.7+20
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+8
ii xfce4-session [x-session-manager] 4.14.2-1
ii xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 0.8.9.2-1
ii xfwm4 [x-window-manager] 4.14.5-1
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 359-1
Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii at-spi2-core 2.36.0-3
ii desktop-base 10.0.3
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.7+5
ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.20.8-2
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+20
ii zenity 3.32.0-5
Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii gnome-orca 3.36.5-1
pn libpam-fprintd <none>
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.36.0-1
-- debconf information excluded
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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