<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#2e3436" link="#737373" vlink="#2e3436"><pre>Thank you for your suggestions. I'll give it try and report back.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 16:16:56 +0100 Simon McVittie <</pre><a href="mailto:smcv@debian.org"><pre>smcv@debian.org</pre></a><pre>> wrote:</pre><pre>> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo</pre><pre>> </pre><pre>> On Mon, 07 Oct 2019 at 08:55:14 -0500, william l-k wrote:</pre><pre>> > Problem: Instead of getting the authentication screen, the system has the</pre><pre>> > cursor appear (which moves around just fine so the system isn't frozen), but</pre><pre>> > never reaches a working gnome session.</pre><pre>> </pre><pre>> This looks like #941782. Please upgrade gnome-shell to version 3.34.x</pre><pre>> (which was only in unstable until recently, but has just migrated into</pre><pre>> testing, so it might not be available on your mirror yet), and see</pre><pre>> whether this resolves the bug.</pre><pre>> </pre><pre>> If you cannot upgrade to gnome-shell 3.34 yet, downgrading the</pre><pre>> gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 package to the version from Debian 10 'buster'</pre><pre>> is thought to work around this bug.</pre><pre>> </pre><pre>> > We are all on Debian testing. We also all had unattended upgrades running.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I'll let you know if I'm able to get this to work.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I'd probably forget how to fix anything if nothing ever went wrong, and then I'd be helpless in the face of disaster</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>> </pre><pre>> The testing/unstable suites sometimes break, despite our best efforts;</pre><pre>> this is particularly true shortly after a stable release, as disruptive</pre><pre>> changes that were queued up during the freeze get uploaded. If you run</pre><pre>> testing/unstable, I would recommend using apt-listbugs to avoid upgrading</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Thanks for the tip on this.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>> to a version with known release-critical bugs.</pre><pre>> </pre><pre>> On critical or remote systems, I would recommend using the latest</pre><pre>> Debian stable release, currently Debian 10 'buster', rather than</pre><pre>> testing/unstable.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>> I would not recommend using unattended-upgrades with testing/unstable.</pre><pre>> It's usually OK as a way to install security updates on a stable system,</pre><pre>> but testing/unstable has too many transitions between incompatible versions</pre><pre>> for unattended-upgrades to do the right thing in all cases.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Learned this the hard way. I renamed the program for when running on a testing system: unintended-upgrades</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>> </pre><pre>> smcv</pre><pre>> </pre><pre>> </pre></body></html>