Package: gdm3 Version: 3.22.1-1 Severity: normal If I try to run gdm3 while gnome-session is not installed, the greeter will not come up. It instead blanks and unblanks the screen repeatedly, presumably as it keeps respawning the greeter. Installing gnome-session fixes it.
It sounds like gnome-session-bin was supposed to be sufficient, but apparently it isn't at the moment. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gdm3 depends on: ii accountsservice 0.6.40-4 ii adduser 3.115 ii dconf-cli 0.26.0-2 ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.26.0-2 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59 ii gir1.2-gdm-1.0 3.22.1-1 ii gnome-session-bin 3.22.2-1 ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.22.1-1 ii gnome-shell 3.22.2-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.22.0-1 ii libaccountsservice0 0.6.40-4 ii libaudit1 1:2.6.7-1 ii libc6 2.24-8 ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-3 ii libcanberra0 0.30-3 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.2-1 ii libgdm1 3.22.1-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.2-2 ii libglib2.0-bin 2.50.2-2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.5-1 ii libkeyutils1 1.5.9-9 ii libpam-modules 1.1.8-3.4 ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-3.4 ii libpam-systemd 232-8 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.4 ii librsvg2-common 2.40.16-1 ii libselinux1 2.6-3 ii libsystemd0 232-8 ii libwrap0 7.6.q-25 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-2 ii libxau6 1:1.0.8-1 ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.2-1.1 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii mutter [x-window-manager] 3.22.2-2 ii policykit-1 0.105-17 ii ucf 3.0036 ii x11-common 1:7.7+18 ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+7 ii xfce4-session [x-session-manager] 4.12.1-5 ii xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 0.8.1-1 ii xfwm4 [x-window-manager] 4.12.3-3 ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 327-2 Versions of packages gdm3 recommends: ii at-spi2-core 2.22.0-4 ii desktop-base 8.0.2 ii x11-xkb-utils 7.7+3 ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.19.0-3 ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+18 ii zenity 3.22.0-1 Versions of packages gdm3 suggests: pn gnome-orca <none> ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.20.0-3 -- debconf information: gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3 * shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
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