Debian Bug report logs - #904973
gdm3: crashes after every suspend cycle

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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: Daniel Blaschke <blaschke@hep.itp.tuwien.ac.at>

Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 05:21:01 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version gdm3/3.22.3-3+deb9u1

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, blaschke@hep.itp.tuwien.ac.at, Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#904973; Package gdm3. (Mon, 30 Jul 2018 05:21:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Daniel Blaschke <blaschke@hep.itp.tuwien.ac.at>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to blaschke@hep.itp.tuwien.ac.at, Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (Mon, 30 Jul 2018 05:21:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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

From: Daniel Blaschke <blaschke@hep.itp.tuwien.ac.at>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: gdm3: crashes after every suspend cycle
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 23:17:30 -0600
Package: gdm3
Version: 3.22.3-3+deb9u1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

gdm crashes every time the PC goes to sleep while a user is logged in, locking
out every other user until I reboot.
steps to reproduce (tested on an intel broadwell laptop as well as a core-2 due
desktop with nvidia graphics running the nouveau driver):
log in user A
while user A is logged in, close laptop lid or otherwise go to suspend/sleep
wake up PC: user A is still logged in and can access his/her session on tty 2,
but gdm has crashed on tty1, i.e. one only sees the lock screen, hitting enter
briefly flickers the list of users available for login, but gdm immediately
returns to the lock screen and it is impossible to log in anyone anymore (this
also applies to user A after he logs out)
Only rebooting helps
I also tried
sudo systemctl restart gdm3
but this only works 1 out of 10 times, the other times systemd tries in vain in
an infinite loop to restart gdm freeying the system and requiring a hard reset.

Thanks,
Daniel



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                       0.6.43-1
ii  adduser                               3.115
ii  dconf-cli                             0.26.0-2+b1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend               0.26.0-2+b1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                 1.5.61
ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                        3.22.3-3+deb9u1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]     3.22.3-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                     3.22.3-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                 3.22.2-2+deb9u2
ii  gnome-shell                           3.22.3-3
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.22.2-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas             3.22.0-1
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emulator]         4:16.12.0-4
ii  libaccountsservice0                   0.6.43-1
ii  libaudit1                             1:2.6.7-2
ii  libc6                                 2.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                    0.30-3
ii  libcanberra0                          0.30-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                    2.36.5-2+deb9u2
ii  libgdm1                               3.22.3-3+deb9u1
ii  libglib2.0-0                          2.50.3-2
ii  libglib2.0-bin                        2.50.3-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                            3.22.11-1
ii  libkeyutils1                          1.5.9-9
ii  libpam-modules                        1.1.8-3.6
ii  libpam-runtime                        1.1.8-3.6
ii  libpam-systemd                        232-25+deb9u4
ii  libpam0g                              1.1.8-3.6
ii  librsvg2-common                       2.40.16-1+b1
ii  libselinux1                           2.6-3+b3
ii  libsystemd0                           232-25+deb9u4
ii  libwrap0                              7.6.q-26
ii  libx11-6                              2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxau6                               1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxcb1                               1.12-1
ii  libxdmcp6                             1:1.1.2-3
ii  lsb-base                              9.20161125
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]           1:3.22.1-1
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]             3.22.3-2
ii  policykit-1                           0.105-18
ii  ucf                                   3.0036
ii  x11-common                            1:7.7+19
ii  x11-xserver-utils                     7.7+7+b1
ii  xfce4-session [x-session-manager]     4.12.1-5
ii  xfwm4 [x-window-manager]              4.12.4-1
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           327-2

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi2-core    2.22.0-6+deb9u1
ii  desktop-base    9.0.2+deb9u1
ii  x11-xkb-utils   7.7+3+b1
ii  xserver-xephyr  2:1.19.2-1+deb9u2
ii  xserver-xorg    1:7.7+19
ii  zenity          3.22.0-1+b1

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-orca            3.22.2-3
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.20.0-3

-- debconf information:
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3



Reply sent to Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:19:12 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Daniel Blaschke <blaschke@hep.itp.tuwien.ac.at>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:19:13 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at 904973-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org>
To: 959432-done@bugs.debian.org, 956559-done@bugs.debian.org, 950504-done@bugs.debian.org, 931529-done@bugs.debian.org, 921323-done@bugs.debian.org, 916704-done@bugs.debian.org, 904973-done@bugs.debian.org, 898698-done@bugs.debian.org, 896083-done@bugs.debian.org, 894098-done@bugs.debian.org, 893567-done@bugs.debian.org, 889505-done@bugs.debian.org, 871032-done@bugs.debian.org, 870462-done@bugs.debian.org, 860059-done@bugs.debian.org, 859422-done@bugs.debian.org, 851399-done@bugs.debian.org, 851398-done@bugs.debian.org, 844306-done@bugs.debian.org, 832221-done@bugs.debian.org, 830487-done@bugs.debian.org, 825298-done@bugs.debian.org, 823380-done@bugs.debian.org, 821950-done@bugs.debian.org, 820623-done@bugs.debian.org, 811551-done@bugs.debian.org, 809086-done@bugs.debian.org, 806808-done@bugs.debian.org, 802215-done@bugs.debian.org, 801749-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: closing old gdm3 bugs
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 18:16:44 -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 07:33:19 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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