Bug#956910: gnome-shell: System hangs with GnomeDesktop:gnome_bg_slide_show_set_property: assertion failed: (GNOME_BG_IS_SLIDE_SHOW (object))

[Simon McVittie]

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

On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 16:54:25 +0200, Gert van de Kraats wrote:
> After today's upgrade the system hangs with
> 
> GnomeDesktop:ERROR:../libgnome-desktop/gnome-bg-slide-show.c:86:gnome_bg_slide_show_set_property:
> assertion failed: (GNOME_BG_IS_SLIDE_SHOW (object)).

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 (probably sometime in the next 1 to 2 days),
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