gdm3 runs, gnome-shell failed to start?

From	Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	gdm3 runs, gnome-shell failed to start?
Date	2016-09-26 16:10 +0200
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Hey folks,

I am on a fully-updated Stretch system, on a Thinkpad W520, which worked
like a charm till this morning.

When booting this morning, gdm3 came up great, but after logging in,
gnome-shell failed to launch and defaulted to the x server -- i.e, I do see
all my login programs (emacs, firefox and the terminal), but no gnome shell.

What gives?  Resintalling gnome failed to remedy the situation, as did
dist-upgrading to Sid (so, any suggestions to reinstall stuff should be
made relative to Sid -- after we figure this out I'll point my sources to
Sretch and wait).....

I suspect an X problem; logging in to gnome via a wayland session seems to
work.

Cheers!

-- 
Boyan Penkov

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