turns out this the permissions on my home directory have been set to
775, which gdm doesn't like. this however is an extremly confusing error
message.
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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gdm always uses Fallback for UserAuthDir
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123697
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