Bug#956885: gnome: gdm fails to start up after bullseye upgrade

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Thu Apr 16 13:48:05 BST 2020


Control: reassign -1 libgnome-desktop-3-18
Control: tags -1 bullseye
Control: affects -1 gnome-shell gnome gdm3

On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 13:06:19 +0200, Samuel Schill wrote:
> Apr 16 11:04:42 zeus gnome-shell[1161]: cannot register existing type 'GnomeBGSlideShow'

This is a known transitional problem during the upgrade from GNOME
Shell and gnome-desktop3 3.34.x to 3.36.x. It will be resolved when the
transition finishes, but there is nothing that the maintainers of
individual packages can do about it right now.

Either hold/downgrade related packages to the versions that depend on
libgnome-desktop-3-18 for now, or upgrade selected packages to their
versions from unstable so that everything depends on libgnome-desktop-3-19.

    smcv



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