Bug#941908: gnome: unable to start gnome-shell, cursor only with no login

[william l-k]

Thank you for your suggestions. I'll give it try and report back.

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