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gdm3 package

  1. Bionic (18.04)
  2. Bug #1766137
  3. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1766137

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote : Re: Login fails when preceded by incorrect password

I think I might have hit this finally. The blank purple screen with a mouse cursor probably means the shell failed to start. And indeed I have no gnome-shell process running for my UID. The journalctl shows:

pr 23 14:33:47 haz gnome-shell[912]: g_dbus_connection_call_sync_internal: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTION (connection)' failed