Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] gdm3 migration

[Tim <darkxst@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/12/15 22:22, Bruce Pieterse wrote:
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> So the problem was actually xenial missing from ubuntu_release_names in apt-cacher. All sorted now.
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> I upgraded, but there are a number of dependency issues at the moment. gdm3, gconf2, gnupg2 etc. See attached (main.log).
That log is not much use, probably the dpkg/apt logs will be more useful /var/log/apt/* /var/log/dpkg.log


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> After rebooting, you are left at the console which flashes for a while before timing out (trying to to start gdm3, but fails). There are just
> over 500 entries for gdm3 failures.
What graphics driver are you using?  Xorg was changed to run as non-root users, but apparently that breaks on any driver that doesnt support KMS
(which include Nvidia/AMD proprietry blobs, virtualbox and the old intel drivers that you get with 'nomodeset') in that case you need to install
xserver-xorg-legacy.
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> There also seems to be a gdm and gdm3 service as well, but this might be due to the dependency failures after upgrade as I don't have gdm on
> my current xenial install. 
you could try and run `sudo apt-get -f install ` hopefully that will resolve issue and finish configure. grab another copy of the above logs
after that.
once everything has upgraded completely (and reboot) gdm service will just be a symlink to gdm3