Debian Bug report logs - #1027721
gdm3: fill disk with same errors

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Package: gdm3; Maintainer for gdm3 is Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>; Source for gdm3 is src:gdm3 (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Valerio <efa@iol.it>

Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 13:03:02 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version gdm3/3.38.2.1-1

Done: Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#1027721; Package gdm3. (Mon, 02 Jan 2023 13:03:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Valerio <efa@iol.it>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (Mon, 02 Jan 2023 13:03:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Valerio <efa@iol.it>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: gdm3: fill disk with same errors
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2023 14:00:17 +0100
Package: gdm3
Version: 3.38.2.1-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
     Playing SuperTuxKart 1.4
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
     sorry happen on random track in random situation, but each time for a race
   * What was the outcome of this action?
     GDM fill the disk with millions of same error lines.
     The error is this:
     /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[n]: amdgpu: amdgpu_cs_query_fence_status failed
     and is written at the end of the following three files:
     /var/log/syslog
     /var/log/messages
     /var/log/user.log
     I keep root partitions with 100 GB free space, when the error is
triggered,
     the three files grown to 33 GB each, when the root is full, STK freeze,
     GDM crash, CTRL+ALT+Fx won't work, I had to remotely connect via SSH and
     remove user.log to free minumum space.
     Then manually remove those repeated error lines
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
     GDM write the error once to avoid saturate the root partition

     Other notes:
     CPU / Graphics card:
     MB: Asus TUF Gaming A520M-Plus
     CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G box (/proc/cpuinfo: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon
Graphics)
     RAM: DDR4 Kingston Fury Beast 3200MHz 2x8GB
     SSD: NVME ADATA GAMMIX S11P 512GB Gen3
     Supply: ADJ 700W
     Monitor Yashi Pioneers YZ2407 @1920x1080

     Further details at: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/829
     In Synaptic, force version, 3.38 is the only available.
     I have no idea how to force newer supported version like 3.41

     As now I had temporaly switched to LightDM as the system was unusable


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-20-amd64 (SMP w/12 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), LANGUAGE not
set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/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  dbus                                      1.12.24-0+deb11u1
ii  dconf-cli                                 0.38.0-2
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                   0.38.0-2
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                     1.5.77
ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                            3.38.2.1-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]         3.38.0-4
ii  gnome-session-bin                         3.38.0-4
ii  gnome-session-common                      3.38.0-4
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                     3.38.2-1
ii  gnome-shell                               3.38.6-1~deb11u1
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]      3.38.3-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                 3.38.0-2
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emulator]             4:20.12.3-1
ii  kwin-x11 [x-window-manager]               4:5.20.5-1
ii  libaccountsservice0                       0.6.55-3
ii  libaudit1                                 1:3.0-2
ii  libc6                                     2.31-13+deb11u5
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                        0.30-7
ii  libcanberra0                              0.30-7
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                       2.42.2+dfsg-1+deb11u1
ii  libgdm1                                   3.38.2.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                              2.66.8-1
ii  libglib2.0-bin                            2.66.8-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                3.24.24-4+deb11u2
ii  libkeyutils1                              1.6.1-2
ii  libpam-modules                            1.4.0-9+deb11u1
ii  libpam-runtime                            1.4.0-9+deb11u1
ii  libpam-systemd                            247.3-7+deb11u1
ii  libpam0g                                  1.4.0-9+deb11u1
ii  librsvg2-common                           2.50.3+dfsg-1
ii  libselinux1                               3.1-3
ii  libsystemd0                               247.3-7+deb11u1
ii  libx11-6                                  2:1.7.2-1
ii  libxau6                                   1:1.0.9-1
ii  libxcb1                                   1.14-3
ii  libxdmcp6                                 1:1.1.2-3
ii  lsb-base                                  11.1.0
ii  marco [x-window-manager]                  1.24.1-3
ii  mate-session-manager [x-session-manager]  1.24.1-2
ii  mate-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]       1.24.1-1
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]                 3.38.6-2~deb11u2
ii  plasma-workspace [x-session-manager]      4:5.20.5-6
ii  policykit-1                               0.105-31+deb11u1
ii  procps                                    2:3.3.17-5
ii  ucf                                       3.0043
ii  x11-common                                1:7.7+22
ii  x11-xserver-utils                         7.7+8
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]               366-1+deb11u1

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi2-core    2.38.0-4
ii  desktop-base    11.0.3
ii  x11-xkb-utils   7.7+5
ii  xserver-xephyr  2:1.20.11-1+deb11u4
ii  xserver-xorg    1:7.7+22
ii  zenity          3.32.0-6

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-orca            3.38.2-2
pn  libpam-fprintd        <none>
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.36.0-1

-- debconf information:
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3



Reply sent to Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:25:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Valerio <efa@iol.it>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:25:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at 1027721-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org>
To: 970212-done@bugs.debian.org, 969106-done@bugs.debian.org, 940614-done@bugs.debian.org, 896817-done@bugs.debian.org, 852607-done@bugs.debian.org, 851072-done@bugs.debian.org, 822529-done@bugs.debian.org, 598377-done@bugs.debian.org, 1027721-done@bugs.debian.org, 1001619-done@bugs.debian.org, 987040-done@bugs.debian.org, 692579-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: closing old gdm3 bugs
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 18:23:43 -0500
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



Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.debian.org> to internal_control@bugs.debian.org. (Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:27:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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