gdmgreeter locking display

["Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info>]

As previously reported, after installing Gnome and Xorg the X-Window
startup was trapped in a loop before login and top -i showed root
running a program gdmgreeter with a continuously changing pid.

Purging Gnome and Xorg and rebooting did not solve the problem.

Running apt-get autoremove removed a large number of unused programs
that were part of the Gnome installation.  After these were removed the
problem disappeared and the combination of gdm and icewm worked as
previously.

Tom