Bug#748556: Desktop Environment
Gnome / lightdm
gdm3 is installed (also re-installed) but not quite sure what is going
on as cannot switch.
root@jupiter2:~# dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
[ ok ] Reloading system message bus config...done.
ERROR: /lib/systemd/system/gdm3.service is the selected default display
manager but does not exist
root@jupiter2:~# dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
[ ok ] Reloading system message bus config...done.
root@jupiter2:~# apt-get install gdm3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gdm3 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 164 not upgraded.
root@jupiter2:~# apt-get install --reinstall gdm3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 164 not
upgraded.
Need to get 715 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.pt.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main gdm3 amd64 3.8.4-6
[715 kB]
Fetched 715 kB in 7s (97.8
kB/s) y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 231036 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gdm3_3.8.4-6_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking gdm3 (3.8.4-6) over (3.8.4-6) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.40.0-3) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.8.2-1) ...
[ ok ] system message bus already started; not starting..
Setting up gdm3 (3.8.4-6) ...
[ ok ] Scheduling reload of GNOME Display Manager configuration: gdm3.
root@jupiter2:~# dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
Please be sure to run "dpkg --configure gdm3".
[ ok ] Reloading system message bus config...done.
ERROR: /lib/systemd/system/gdm3.service is the selected default display
manager but does not exist
root@jupiter2:~# dpkg --configure gdm3
dpkg: error processing package gdm3 (--configure):
package gdm3 is already installed and configured
Errors were encountered while processing:
gdm3
root@jupiter2:~#
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