Your message dated Thu, 6 Nov 2025 18:10:28 -0500 with message-id <CAAajCMbEGeU1s25jpEe8X6shc3ORJcSDUw=so-RFXNkWy=d...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line closing ancient gdm3 bugs has caused the Debian Bug report #800327, regarding gdm3: greeter does not start on nvidia to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: gdm3 Version: 3.14.2-2 Severity: important After a recent update, the greeter for gdm3 does not start anymore. Instead the infamous 'Oh no something went wrong" is displayed, with a "Logout" button that cycles back to that same error page. When I configure automatic login, I get a working session, so gnome-session appears to be working correctly. I did some debugging, and found out that /usr/lib/gnome-session/gnome-session- check-accelerated-helper fails. I ran the program under strace as user Debian- gdm and noticed the following : stat("/dev/nvidiactl", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0660, st_rdev=makedev(195, 255), ...}) = 0 open("/dev/nvidiactl", O_RDWR) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) So it looks like that device is not accessible for user Debian-gdm $ ls -l /dev/nvidiactl crw-rw---- 1 root video 195, 255 Sep 27 21:16 /dev/nvidiactl $ groups Debian-gdm Debian-gdm : Debian-gdm Adding the user Debian-gdm to group video fixes the problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.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 0.6.40-3 ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii dconf-cli 0.24.0-2 ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.24.0-2 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.57 ii gir1.2-gdm3 3.14.2-2 ii gnome-session [x-session-manager] 3.16.0-1 ii gnome-session-bin 3.16.0-1 ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.16.3-1 ii gnome-shell 3.16.3-2 ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.18.0-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.18.0-1 ii libaccountsservice0 0.6.40-3 ii libaudit1 1:2.4.4-3+b1 ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-2.1 ii libcanberra0 0.30-2.1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.32.0-1 ii libgdm1 3.14.2-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.0-1 ii libglib2.0-bin 2.46.0-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.16.6-1 ii libpam-modules 1.1.8-3.1 ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-3.1 ii libpam-systemd 226-3 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1 ii librsvg2-common 2.40.10-1 ii libselinux1 2.3-2+b1 ii libsystemd0 226-3 ii libwrap0 7.6.q-25 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxau6 1:1.0.8-1 ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.2-1 ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.0-1 ii lsb-base 9.20150917 ii metacity [x-window-manager] 1:3.17.2-4 ii mutter [x-window-manager] 3.16.3-1 ii policykit-1 0.105-12 ii tinywm [x-window-manager] 1.3-9 ii twm [x-window-manager] 1:1.0.9-1 ii ucf 3.0030 ii x11-common 1:7.7+9 ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+5 ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 320-1 Versions of packages gdm3 recommends: ii at-spi2-core 2.16.0-1 ii desktop-base 8.0.2 ii gnome-icon-theme 3.12.0-1 ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.12.0-1 ii x11-xkb-utils 7.7+2 ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.17.2-1.1 ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+9 ii zenity 3.18.0-1 Versions of packages gdm3 suggests: ii gnome-orca 3.16.2-2 ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.16.0-4 -- debconf information: gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3 * shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
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--- Begin Message ---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
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