"Being able to login in text mode means that the "whole system" is not
broken => downgrading the severity a little bit."
Just a very little bit!
"What exactly makes you unable to login? Do you see a graphical login
screen at all?"
I got the graphical login, press space, enter password and then - as far
as I remember - just a blank graphical screen with top bar.
Clicking on icons on RHS of top bar gave, again remembering is tricky
now, just an empty black box.
This looks like:
https://bugs.debian.org/761001
- sounds similarish!
https://bugs.debian.org/759745
- not really
Do the symptoms look like what you've seen? See above but I wouldn't
really say so!
I think that the fact that the icon cache was empty and that appeared to
be the cause means that this problem may have been different from those
mentioned above.
Are you running systemd as pid 1? Yes it is
Do you have the systemd-shim package installed? No
Never heard about the shim until now - "Packages" shows systemd and
systemd-sysv are loaded but systemd-shim is not
I was going to switch between GDM and LightGDM but I couldn't remember
how - therefore I booted into Ubuntu instead to google it and found
several suggestions for the problem - such as the recreation of the
cache icons ( RedHat bug 912303). Checked the Debian icon cache folder
and it was empty.
Tried that first and the system recovered so I didn't need to do
anything else and quickly forgot exactly what happened. Very lucky
choice I think.
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