Your message dated Thu, 6 Nov 2025 18:32:13 -0500 with message-id <caaajcmzfyhwrpdgo2jhha2u5ev5nzj4otzzhf1n586nxpea...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line closing old gdm3 bugs has caused the Debian Bug report #686118, regarding gdm3: error when failing to start is not too helpfull to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: gdm3 Version: 3.4.1-2 Severity: normal Currently when I start gdm3 it gives me the following error: Starting GNOME Display Manager: gdm3 failed! (using /etc/init.d/gdm3 start). This is not very helpfull. It should give some hints where to look to see what is failing. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.4.0 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gdm3 depends on: ii accountsservice 0.6.21-6 ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.12.1-2 ii dconf-tools 0.12.1-2 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.46 ii dpkg 1.16.8 ii gir1.2-freedesktop 1.32.1-1 ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.32.1-1 ii gnome-session [x-session-manager] 3.4.2.1-1 ii gnome-session-bin 3.4.2.1-1 ii gnome-session-fallback [x-session-manager] 3.4.2.1-1 ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.4.2-4+b1 ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.4.1.1-1+build1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.4.2-1 ii libaccountsservice0 0.6.21-6 ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2 ii libattr1 1:2.4.46-8 ii libaudit0 1:1.7.18-1.1 ii libc6 2.13-35 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.12.2-2 ii libcairo2 1.12.2-2 ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.28-4 ii libcanberra0 0.28-4 ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.0-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.3-1 ii libglib2.0-bin 2.32.3-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.4.2-3 ii libpam-modules 1.1.3-7.1 ii libpam-runtime 1.1.3-7.1 ii libpam0g 1.1.3-7.1 ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1 ii librsvg2-common 2.36.1-1 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5 ii libupower-glib1 0.9.17-1 ii libwrap0 7.6.q-24 ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1 ii libxau6 1:1.0.7-1 ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.1-1 ii libxklavier16 5.2.1-1 ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.2-2 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian7 ii metacity [x-window-manager] 1:2.34.3-3 ii policykit-1-gnome 0.105-2 ii upower 0.9.17-1 ii x11-common 1:7.7+1 ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7~3 ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 278-2 Versions of packages gdm3 recommends: ii desktop-base 7.0.2 ii gnome-icon-theme 3.4.0-2 ii libatk-adaptor [at-spi] 2.5.1-1 ii x11-xkb-utils 7.7~1 ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.12.1.902-1 ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+1 ii zenity 3.4.0-2 Versions of packages gdm3 suggests: ii gnome-mag 1:0.16.3-1 ii gnome-orca 3.4.2-1 ii gnome-shell 3.4.2-1 ii gok <none> ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.4.1-4 -- debconf information: * shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3 gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3
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--- 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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