Bug#1065022: libglib2.0-0t64: t64 transition breaks the systems

[Ash Joubert]

Workaround for me was to reinstall gsettings-desktop-schemas:

# apt-get reinstall gsettings-desktop-schemas

I have circulated this rescue information to debian-devel and debian-users.

Cheers,
Ash.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Fwd: Fix for missing gsettings desktop schemas on unstable
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:03:11 +1300
From: Ash Joubert <ash at transient.nz>
To: debian-devel at lists.debian.org

I know the time_t transition is in progress but there could have been a 
nicer experience for users on unstable:

Feb 29 10:31:30 ripley systemd[914]: Starting at-spi-dbus-bus.service - 
Accessibility services bus...
Feb 29 10:31:30 ripley at-spi-bus-laun[984]: Cannot get the default 
GSettingsSchemaSource - is the gsettings-desktop-schemas package installed?
Feb 29 10:31:30 ripley systemd[914]: at-spi-dbus-bus.service: Main 
process exited, code=killed, status=5/TRAP
Feb 29 10:31:30 ripley systemd[914]: at-spi-dbus-bus.service: Failed 
with result 'signal'.
Feb 29 10:31:30 ripley kernel: traps: at-spi-bus-laun[984] trap int3 
ip:7f46709b4587 sp:7ffea37840b0 error:0 in 
libglib-2.0.so.0.7800.4[7f4670970000+99000]
Feb 29 10:31:30 ripley systemd[914]: Failed to start 
at-spi-dbus-bus.service - Accessibility services bus.

rednotebook just refused to start!

Cheers,
Ash.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Fix for missing gsettings desktop schemas on unstable
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 11:56:48 +1300
From: Ash Joubert <ash at transient.nz>
To: debian-user at lists.debian.org

There is a huge transition underway on unstable to migrate to 64-bit 
time_t. After upgrading to the new libglib2.0-0t64, nothing could find 
gsettings desktop schemas, breaking applications like rednotebook and 
reportbug (lol), and after a reboot, stopping services like at-spi from 
starting, causing huge timeouts at system and application start.

A workaround that worked for me was to reinstall gsettings-desktop-schemas:

# apt-get reinstall gsettings-desktop-schemas
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not 
upgraded.
Need to get 660 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 
gsettings-desktop-schemas all 46~beta-3 [660 kB]
Fetched 660 kB in 2s (431 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 300005 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gsettings-desktop-schemas_46~beta-3_all.deb ...
Unpacking gsettings-desktop-schemas (46~beta-3) over (46~beta-3) ...
Setting up gsettings-desktop-schemas (46~beta-3) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0t64:amd64 (2.78.4-2) ...

Cheers,

-- 
Ash Joubert (they/them) <ash at transient.nz>
Director / Game Developer
Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/>
New Zealand