Bug#730806: gnome-session: Dependency problem causes gmd, gdm3 etc upgrade to fail

Petri Kaurinkoski petri.kaurinkoski at iki.fi
Fri Nov 29 17:41:44 UTC 2013


Package: gnome-session
Version: 3.8.4-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

A week ago I updated my Debian/testing system and unfortunately there
seemed to be dependency problems between at least gdm, gdm3 and
gnome-shell. If I interpret the situation right, gdm3 would be installed
among a bunch of other updates, but the update never gets that far.

Running 'apt-get -f install' gives me the following output:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  gnome-session-fallback libgnome-desktop-3-2 libllvm3.2 python-zeitgeist
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gdm3 libgdm1
Suggested packages:
  gnome-orca
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gdm3 libgdm1
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 106 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/792 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,860 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 290502 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libgdm1 (from .../libgdm1_3.8.4-6_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libgdm1_3.8.4-6_i386.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/gdmflexiserver', which is also in package gdm
2.20.11-4
Unpacking gdm3 (from .../archives/gdm3_3.8.4-6_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gdm3_3.8.4-6_i386.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/gdm-xnest.png',
which is also in package gdm 2.20.11-4
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:i386 ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libgdm1_3.8.4-6_i386.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/gdm3_3.8.4-6_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


The first few lines I get when trying to start a normal graphical session
are:

gnome-session[6408]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file
mail-notification.desktop or it references a not found TryExec binary
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/run/user/1000/keyring-226Vk8
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring-226Vk8/ssh
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=6448
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/run/user/1000/keyring-226Vk8
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring-226Vk8/ssh
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/run/user/1000/keyring-226Vk8
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring-226Vk8/ssh
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/run/user/1000/keyring-226Vk8
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring-226Vk8/ssh
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/1000/keyring-226Vk8/gpg:0:1

(gnome-settings-daemon:6429): power-plugin-WARNING **: Unable to inhibit lid
switch: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Operation not
permitted

(gnome-settings-daemon:6429): media-keys-plugin-WARNING **: Unable to
inhibit keypresses: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied:
Operation not permitted

(gnome-settings-daemon:6429): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to create
device: failed to obtain org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-device auth

(gnome-settings-daemon:6429): PackageKit-WARNING **: failed to set proxy:
GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._pk_5fengine_5ferror.Code3:
failed to obtain auth

(gnome-settings-daemon:6429): updates-plugin-WARNING **: failed to set
proxies:
GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._pk_5fengine_5ferror.Code3:
failed to obtain auth

(gnome-settings-daemon:6429): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to obtain
org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-profile auth

(gnome-settings-daemon:6429): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to obtain
org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-profile auth

(gnome-shell:6637): Bluetooth-WARNING **: Could not open RFKILL control
device, please verify your installation
Window manager warning: Log level 16: Failed to load shared library
'libgdm.so.1' referenced by the typelib: libgdm.so.1: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
    JS ERROR: !!!   Exception in callback for signal: sessions-loaded
    JS ERROR: !!!     message = '"Could not locate gdm_get_session_ids:
libgdm.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"'
    JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = 'undefined'
    JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = 'undefined'
    JS ERROR: !!!     stack = 'undefined'
    JS ERROR: !!!   Exception was: [boxed instance proxy GIName:GLib.Error
jsobj at 0xb03d5a48 native at 0x8cdcfc0]
    JS ERROR: !!!     message = '"Could not locate gdm_get_session_ids:
(null)"'
    JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = 'undefined'
    JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = 'undefined'
    JS ERROR: !!!     stack = 'undefined'
    JS ERROR: !!!   Exception was: [boxed instance proxy GIName:GLib.Error
jsobj at 0xb03f1b98 native at 0x9085d60]
    JS ERROR: !!!     message = '"Could not locate gdm_get_session_ids:
(null)"'
    JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = 'undefined'
    JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = 'undefined'
    JS ERROR: !!!     stack = 'undefined'
gnome-session[6408]: Gdk-WARNING: gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource
temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.


** (gnome-settings-daemon:6429): WARNING **: Name taken or bus went away -
shutting down
Stopping gnome-session


Could you please help me out with this?

Best regards,

Petri Kaurinkoski

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15
(charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gnome-session-bin      3.8.4-3
ii  gnome-session-common   3.8.4-3
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.8.5-2
iu  gnome-shell            3.8.4-5

gnome-session recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base      7.0.3
ii  gnome-keyring     3.8.2-2
ii  gnome-user-guide  3.8.2-1

-- no debconf information

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Petri.Kaurinkoski at iki.fi



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