GDM, gnome-session exits to login screen after a few seconds

Recently, I've done a fresh installation of Arch Linux on my girlfriends laptop. She's using gnome and would like to log in graphically using GDM.
However, when I try to login via gdm, I get kicked out of gnome after a couple of (say about 30) seconds back to the login screen. It doesn't seem to matter if I do something. Even with no input/programms/whatsoever, the session ends after a short time.
The problem appears to be related to gdm, not gnome, though, because if I do not start GDM but launch my gnome-session via 'startx' from a terminal everything works perfectly fine.
I've read something about KMS issues somewhere and tried adding "nomodeset" to my kernel command line. The kickout was gone but gnome started in failback mode and issueing "gnome-shell --replace" started the gnome-shell but messed up parts of the screen.
Since I'm using fluxbox with no graphical login on my own machine, I really don't know where to start looking. Any clues/suggestions what to look at for fixing the problem?

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