GDM doesn't show xorg session at login (Artful)

[Khurshid Alam]

With gdm It shows only two session:

1) Ubuntu

2) Ubuntu on wayland

With (1), I have no .xauthority and display is set to wayland-0

2) gives black screen.

However If I install lightdm and reboot into lightdm all the sesssions are clearly visible including Gnome, Ubuntu on xorg etc.

gnome-session: 3.25.90-0ubuntu

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. Could you please open a terminal, execute the following command and paste the output:
apt-cache policy gnome-session ubuntu-session

Thanks.

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

gnome-session: 3.25.90-0ubuntu
ubuntu-session: 3.25.90-0ubuntu

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

For some people it's exactly opposite. All sessions are xorg regardless of session name.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Could you please paste the complete output of the command?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

@Khurshid, right, it is likely bug 1705157 but I'd like to confirm that ubuntu-session is installed and it is the latest version.

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

pcuser@artful-dev:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-session ubuntu-session

gnome-session:
  Installed: 3.25.90-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.25.90-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.25.90-0ubuntu2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ubuntu-session:
  Installed: 3.25.90-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.25.90-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.25.90-0ubuntu2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1705157, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.