Debian Bug report logs - #674085
gdm3 froze/crashed before displaying the password prompt

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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: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>

Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 23:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version gdm3/3.0.4-4

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#674085; Package gdm3. (Tue, 22 May 2012 23:57:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (Tue, 22 May 2012 23:57:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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

From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: gdm3 froze/crashed before displaying the password prompt
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 01:56:12 +0200
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Package: gdm3
Version: 3.0.4-4
Severity: normal

gdm3 froze/crashed before displaying the password prompt (after
I selected the default user with [Enter]). I've attached the
log files from /var/log/gdm3.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                             0.6.21-1
ii  adduser                                     3.113+nmu2
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                     0.12.1-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                       1.5.43
ii  fvwm [x-window-manager]                     1:2.5.30.ds-1.1+local1
ii  gconf2                                      3.2.5-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]           3.4.2-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                           3.4.2-1
ii  gnome-session-fallback [x-session-manager]  3.4.2-1
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]        3.4.1.1-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                   3.4.2-1
ii  libaccountsservice0                         0.6.21-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                 2.4.0-2
ii  libattr1                                    1:2.4.46-7
ii  libaudit0                                   1:1.7.18-1.1
ii  libc6                                       2.13-32
ii  libcairo-gobject2                           1.10.2-7
ii  libcairo2                                   1.10.2-7
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                          0.28-4
ii  libcanberra0                                0.28-4
ii  libdbus-1-3                                 1.5.12-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                            0.98-1
ii  libfontconfig1                              2.9.0-5
ii  libfreetype6                                2.4.9-1
ii  libgconf2-4                                 3.2.5-1
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                                  3.4.2-1
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                                 2.1.9-4
ii  libupower-glib1                             0.9.16-2
ii  libwrap0                                    7.6.q-23
ii  libx11-6                                    2:1.4.99.901-2
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+Debian4
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]                 1:2.34.1-2
ii  mlterm [x-terminal-emulator]                3.1.1-1+b1
ii  policykit-1-gnome                           0.105-2
ii  rxvt-unicode [x-terminal-emulator]          9.15-1
ii  twm [x-window-manager]                      1:1.0.6-1
ii  upower                                      0.9.16-2
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]                 278-1

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi                 1.32.0-1
ii  desktop-base           6.0.7
ii  gnome-icon-theme       3.4.0-2
ii  gnome-power-manager    3.4.0-2
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.2.2-3
ii  x11-xkb-utils          7.7~1
ii  xserver-xephyr         2:1.12.1.902-1
ii  xserver-xorg           1:7.6+13
ii  zenity                 3.4.0-2

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-mag             <none>
ii  gnome-orca            <none>
ii  gok                   <none>
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.4.1-3
ii  metacity              1:2.34.1-2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/gdm3/greeter.gsettings changed:
[org.gnome.power-manager]
icon-policy='never'
[org.gnome.desktop.sound]
event-sounds=false


-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3
[:0-greeter.log.1 (text/plain, attachment)]
[:0-slave.log.1 (text/plain, attachment)]

Reply sent to Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:35:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:35:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at 674085-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org>
To: 648731-done@bugs.debian.org, 651135-done@bugs.debian.org, 652467-done@bugs.debian.org, 652472-done@bugs.debian.org, 657747-done@bugs.debian.org, 658978-done@bugs.debian.org, 665269-done@bug.sdebian.org, 668785-done@bugs.debian.org, 672980-done@bugs.debian.org, 674085-done@bugs.debian.org, 679160-done@bugs.debian.org, 684120-done@bugs.debian.org, 686118-done@bugs.debian.org, 694791-done@bugs.debian.org, 698591-done@bugs.debian.org, 696672-done@bugs.debian.org, 701107-done@bugs.debian.org, 729174-done@bugs.debian.org, 726535-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: closing old gdm3 bugs
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 18:32:13 -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 07:34:45 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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