gdm package tries to restart service and fails

Bug #1690953 reported by terry b
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Bug Description

on 5/15 I updated my system. During the update gdm 3.24.1.0ubuntu0.1 was updated via apt.

The following packages will be upgraded:
  gdm3 gir1.2-gdm-1.0 git git-man libgdm1 libxen-4.8 libxenstore3.0
7 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 41 not upgraded.
Need to get 684 kB/4,842 kB of archives.
After this operation, 14.3 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates/universe amd64 gdm3 amd64 3.24.1-0ubuntu0.1 [629 kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates/universe amd64 libgdm1 amd64 3.24.1-0ubuntu0.1 [45.7 kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates/universe amd64 gir1.2-gdm-1.0 amd64 3.24.1-0ubuntu0.1 [8,670 B]
Fetched 684 kB in 0s (1,247 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 528045 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../0-git-man_1%3a2.11.0-2ubuntu0.1_all.deb ...
Unpacking git-man (1:2.11.0-2ubuntu0.1) over (1:2.11.0-2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../1-git_1%3a2.11.0-2ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking git (1:2.11.0-2ubuntu0.1) over (1:2.11.0-2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../2-gdm3_3.24.1-0ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking gdm3 (3.24.1-0ubuntu0.1) over (3.24.0-0ubuntu2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../3-libgdm1_3.24.1-0ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libgdm1 (3.24.1-0ubuntu0.1) over (3.24.0-0ubuntu2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../4-gir1.2-gdm-1.0_3.24.1-0ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking gir1.2-gdm-1.0 (3.24.1-0ubuntu0.1) over (3.24.0-0ubuntu2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../5-libxenstore3.0_4.8.0-1ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libxenstore3.0:amd64 (4.8.0-1ubuntu2.1) over (4.8.0-1ubuntu2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../6-libxen-4.8_4.8.0-1ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libxen-4.8:amd64 (4.8.0-1ubuntu2.1) over (4.8.0-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up git-man (1:2.11.0-2ubuntu0.1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.52.0-1) ...
Setting up libxenstore3.0:amd64 (4.8.0-1ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up libgdm1 (3.24.1-0ubuntu0.1) ...
Setting up libxen-4.8:amd64 (4.8.0-1ubuntu2.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-9ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (232-21ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.10-1ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) ...
Setting up git (1:2.11.0-2ubuntu0.1) ...
Setting up gir1.2-gdm-1.0 (3.24.1-0ubuntu0.1) ...
Setting up gdm3 (3.24.1-0ubuntu0.1) ...
gdm.service is not active, cannot reload.
invoke-rc.d: initscript gdm3, action "reload" failed.

The Reload failed because I use Kwin. The failure should have been more graceful.

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