Bug#1099884: mutter: Failed upgrade from gnome 47 to 48: crash at gdm3 startup: white screen

[Michael Jarosch]

Package: mutter-common
Version: 48~beta-7
Severity: important
File: mutter

Dear Maintainer,

I experienced a bad upgrade on my HP Elitebook 8440p with Intel Core i5 M540
CPU (Intel Iron Lake graphics). As I switched to gdm3_48~beta-1 via apt and
rebooted I ended up in a white screen with a sad computer-monitor saying
something like: "Startup failed, couldn't fix it, get an administrator…"

journalctl spits out these lines:

Mär 09 00:08:35 [device] gnome-session[4694]: 
gnome-session-binary[4694]: WARNING: Could not check if unit 
gnome-session-x11 at gnome-login.target is active: Fehler beim Aufruf von 
StartServiceB>
Mär 09 00:08:35 [device] gnome-session-binary[4694]: WARNING: Could not 
check if unit gnome-session-x11 at gnome-login.target is active: Fehler 
beim Aufruf von StartServiceByName für org.freedes>
Mär 09 00:08:35 [device] gnome-shell[4719]: Running GNOME Shell (using 
mutter 48.beta) as a X11 window and compositing manager
Mär 09 00:08:36 [device] /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[4678]: (II) 
modeset(0): EDID vendor "CMO", prod id 5219
Mär 09 00:08:36 [device] /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[4678]: (II) 
modeset(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
Mär 09 00:08:36 [device] /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[4678]: (II) 
modeset(0): Modeline "1366x768"x0.0 69.30 1366 1382 1416 1480 768 770 
776 780 +hsync -vsync (46.8 kHz eP)
Mär 09 00:08:36 [device] /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[4678]: (II) 
modeset(0): Modeline "1366x768"x0.0 46.27 1366 1382 1416 1480 768 770 
776 780 +hsync -vsync (31.3 kHz e)
Mär 09 00:08:36 [device] org.gnome.Shell.desktop[4719]: Failed to setup: 
Unable to create suitable GL context
Mär 09 00:08:36 [device] gnome-session[4694]: 
gnome-session-binary[4694]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' 
exited with code 1
Mär 09 00:08:36 [device] gnome-session-binary[4694]: WARNING: App 
'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
Mär 09 00:08:36 [device] gnome-shell[4735]: Running GNOME Shell (using 
mutter 48.beta) as a X11 window and compositing manager

(Always thought, gdm3 starts up using wayland but here we go…
I guess, the point is:

"Unable to create suitable GL context")

So I pulled back the following packages to a version below 48~beta-1…

gdm3_47.0-4
libgdm1_47.0-4
gir1.2-gdm-1.0_47.0-4
gnome-shell_47.3-1
gir1.2-mutter-15_47.4-1
libmutter-15-0_47.4-1
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome_47.2-2
mutter-common_47.4-1
mutter-common-bin_47.4-1

…and I got a working gnome-desktop, again!

Didn't know, which package to report (gdm3 and gnome-shell may be a wiser
choice)… Hope this is okay…!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.12-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE 
not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages mutter-common depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.40.0-5

mutter-common recommends no packages.

mutter-common suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information