When I was fishing around in /etc/gdm/custom.conf I noticed this line:

[daemon]
# Uncomment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
#WaylandEnable = false

After doing a bit of research I found this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Use_Xorg_backend which says
that by default, GDM 3.16+ uses Wayland as the default display server. I
installed the xwayland package and GDM started working again. Apparently
xwayland isn't one of GDM's  dependencies, given my "apt-cache rdepends
gdm" output.

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  gdm unusable after upgrading to 15.10

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