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

[Jeremy Bícha]

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On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM Michael Jarosch <mitsch at riotmusic.de> wrote:
> 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…"

Michael,

Please confirm whether you are still experiencing this issue with
GNOME Shell 48~rc which recently arrived in Testing.

As others have reported, you may need to carefully do apt update
then   apt full-upgrade

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha