Bug#956894: upgrade-reports: display of gnome login screen failed /gnome crashes after applying dist-upgrade on 16th of April 2020

[Bill Allombert]

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On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 02:30:46PM +0200, Dennis wrote:
> Package: upgrade-reports
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
>    Since today's dist-upgrade Gnome does not start to lock screen and crashes before. Graphical error message is displayed.
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
>    Checked journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell(-session) logs for gnome realted issues: Since the update I see a assertion failed for "gnome_bg_slide_show_set_property" in "gnome-bg-slide_show.c:83"
>    g_once_init_leave: assertion: 'result!=0' failed
>    Can not register existing type 'GnomeBGSlideShow'
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>    I have not taken any action yet as I currently don't exactly know why this issue occures
> 
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bullseye/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled