Your message dated Thu, 6 Nov 2025 18:53:37 -0500 with message-id <caaajcmy5sj_c-do4kdgklfxdxixzreldwgxdv8hzfrvewe8...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line closing ancient gdm3 bugs has caused the Debian Bug report #743601, regarding gdm3: Black display (LCD backlight on) following dist-upgrade of jessie install. to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: gdm3 Version: 3.8.4-6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Applied updates to successful jessie installation on 2014/04/03 * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Restarted gdm3; rebooted (power cycled); reinstalled gdm3 and gnome- shell. * What was the outcome of this action? No change. X display remains black and unusable. * What outcome did you expect instead? Hoped for return to normal operation. Other system operation appears normal. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 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 0.6.34-2 ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii dconf-cli 0.18.0-1 ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.18.0-1 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.52 ii gir1.2-gdm3 3.8.4-6 ii gnome-session [x-session-manager] 3.8.4-3 ii gnome-session-bin 3.8.4-3 ii gnome-session-flashback [x-session-manager] 3.8.0-3 ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.8.5-2 ii gnome-shell 3.8.4-5+b2 ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.10.1-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.8.2-2 ii libaccountsservice0 0.6.34-2 ii libatk1.0-0 2.10.0-2 ii libaudit1 1:2.3.4-1 ii libc6 2.18-4 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.12.16-2 ii libcairo2 1.12.16-2 ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-2 ii libcanberra0 0.30-2 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.30.6-1 ii libgdm1 3.8.4-6 ii libglib2.0-0 2.38.2-5 ii libglib2.0-bin 2.38.2-5 ii libgtk-3-0 3.10.7-1 ii libpam-modules 1.1.8-2 ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-2 ii libpam-systemd 204-8 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.3-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.3-1 ii librsvg2-common 2.40.2-1 ii libselinux1 2.2.2-1 ii libwrap0 7.6.q-25 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-1 ii libxau6 1:1.0.8-1 ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.1-1 ii libxrandr2 2:1.4.2-1 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian12 ii metacity [x-window-manager] 1:2.34.13-1 ii upower 0.9.23-2+b1 ii x11-common 1:7.7+6 ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+2 ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 303-1 Versions of packages gdm3 recommends: ii at-spi2-core 2.10.2-2 ii desktop-base 7.0.3 ii gnome-icon-theme 3.12.0-1 ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.12.0-1 ii x11-xkb-utils 7.7+1 ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.15.0-2 ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+6 ii zenity 3.8.0-1 Versions of packages gdm3 suggests: ii gnome-orca 3.12.0-1 ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.8.2-2+b1 -- debconf-show failed *** /home/dialt/Documents/hpEliteBook8570p/DebianGnuLinux/DebianBug System is a HP EliteBook 8570p with AMD RadeonHD 7500 series video, using the AMD proprietary driver is used as installed from the Debian non-free repository. It was upgraded from wheezy to jessie about 2014/03/31 with only minor issues and updated about every other day since. The behavior appears much as reported in 730093 and similar to 730399 following an apt dist-upgrade that installed or upgraded the following packages: man-db:amd64 2.6.6-1 mime-support:all 3.54 install-info:amd64 5.2.0.dfsg.1-2 gnome-icon-theme:all 3.12.0-1 libiceutil35:amd64 3.5.1-5.2 liblogging-stdlog0:amd64 1.0.3-1 libmbim-glib0:amd64 1.8.0-1 libmm-glib0:amd64 1.0.0-4 libqmi-glib0:amd64 1.4.0-1 libzeroc-ice35:amd64 3.5.1-5.2 ifupdown:amd64 0.7.48.1 rsyslog:amd64 7.6.3-1 vim-common:amd64 2:7.4.225-1 vim-tiny:amd64 2:7.4.225-1 time:amd64 1.7-25 libgeocode-glib0:amd64 3.12.0-1 libc-bin:amd64 2.18-4 Screen appeared normal initially, but was blank after login timeout. This was not corrected by: 1: restarting gdm3 2: rebooting 3: reinstalling (followed by rebooting) gnome-shell:amd64 3.8.4-5+b2 gdm3:amd64 3.8.4-6man-db:amd64 2.6.6-1 along with desktop-file-utils:amd64 0.22-1 gnome-menus:amd64 3.8.0-2 mime-support:all 3.54 libglib2.0-0:i386 2.38.2-5 libglib2.0-0:amd64 2.38.2-5 hicolor-icon-theme:all 0.13-1 dbus:amd64 1.8.0-3 *** /home/dialt/Documents/hpEliteBook8570p/DebianGnuLinux/DebianBug System is a HP EliteBook 8570p with AMD RadeonHD 7500 series video, using the AMD proprietary driver is used as installed from the Debian non-free repository. The AMD diagnostic report (gzipped) is attached. The OS was upgraded from wheezy to jessie about 2014/03/31 with only minor issues and updated about every other day since. The behavior appears much as reported in 730093 and similar to 730399 following an apt dist-upgrade that installed or upgraded the following packages: man-db:amd64 2.6.6-1 mime-support:all 3.54 install-info:amd64 5.2.0.dfsg.1-2 gnome-icon-theme:all 3.12.0-1 libiceutil35:amd64 3.5.1-5.2 liblogging-stdlog0:amd64 1.0.3-1 libmbim-glib0:amd64 1.8.0-1 libmm-glib0:amd64 1.0.0-4 libqmi-glib0:amd64 1.4.0-1 libzeroc-ice35:amd64 3.5.1-5.2 ifupdown:amd64 0.7.48.1 rsyslog:amd64 7.6.3-1 vim-common:amd64 2:7.4.225-1 vim-tiny:amd64 2:7.4.225-1 time:amd64 1.7-25 libgeocode-glib0:amd64 3.12.0-1 libc-bin:amd64 2.18-4 Screen appeared normal initially, but was blank after login timeout. This was not corrected by: 1: restarting gdm3 2: rebooting 3: reinstalling (followed by rebooting) gnome-shell:amd64 3.8.4-5+b2 gdm3:amd64 3.8.4-6man-db:amd64 2.6.6-1 along with desktop-file-utils:amd64 0.22-1 gnome-menus:amd64 3.8.0-2 mime-support:all 3.54 libglib2.0-0:i386 2.38.2-5 libglib2.0-0:amd64 2.38.2-5 hicolor-icon-theme:all 0.13-1 dbus:amd64 1.8.0-3
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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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