Public bug reported:

Both gdm and gnome/weyland via lightdm produce the same result:

blinking cursor, that I can alt-f1 away from (but upon boot the login
ttys do not load).

xfce4 loads from lightdm fine.

Ubuntu: 17.04 zesty

from kern.log:

Apr 13 16:11:10 localhost dbus-daemon[6943]: Activating service 
name='ca.desrt.dconf'
Apr 13 16:11:10 localhost dbus-daemon[6943]: Activated service 'ca.desrt.dconf' 
failed: Failed to execute program ca.desrt.dconf: No such file or directory
Apr 13 16:11:11 localhost systemd[1]: Started Session 8 of user themusicgod1.
Apr 13 16:12:07 localhost gnome-session[6736]: gnome-session-binary[6736]: 
WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Apr 13 16:12:07 localhost gnome-session[6736]: gnome-session-binary[6736]: 
CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....
Apr 13 16:12:07 localhost gnome-session-binary[6736]: Unrecoverable failure in 
required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop
Apr 13 16:12:07 localhost gnome-session-binary[6736]: WARNING: Application 
'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Apr 13 16:12:07 localhost gnome-session-binary[6736]: CRITICAL: We failed, but 
the fail whale is dead. Sorry....
Apr 13 16:12:08 localhost kernel: [ 2119.573283] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: 
resuming kernel object tree...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: gnome (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-19.21-generic 4.10.8
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Thu Apr 13 16:24:18 2017
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-09 (1009 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140708)
SourcePackage: meta-gnome3
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2017-04-13 (0 days ago)

** Affects: meta-gnome3 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug zesty

** Summary changed:

-  We failed, but the fail whale is dead.
+ gnome loads to failing cursor : "We failed, but the fail whale is dead."

** Summary changed:

- gnome loads to failing cursor : "We failed, but the fail whale is dead."
+ gnome loads to blinking cursor kern.log : "We failed, but the fail whale is 
dead."

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  gnome loads to blinking cursor kern.log : "We failed, but the fail
  whale is dead."

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