Bug#1056137: systemd: downgrading systemd packages kills off the desktop environment

[Michael Biebl]

Am 17.11.23 um 15:31 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer:
> Control: tags -1 - moreinfo
> 
> Hey Luca.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2023-11-17 at 14:03 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
>> Please attach the journal from around the time where the installation
>> was happening
> 
> Please see the attached file.
> 
> Also I just remembered, that with 255~rc2-1, and after it happened that
> downgrading killed my DE session... I logged into Cinnamon again, and
> when *then* pressing the power button, it wasn't even like in #1056135,
> that *only* the Hibernation button was missing, but *no* pop-up dialog
> (with at least Suspend, Cancel, Restart, Shutdown) showed up, and it
> went straight without any further confirmation into shutdown.

Just a word of warning: downgrades are not officially supported by Debian.
They might just work most of the time for more trivial packages, but 
often they don't (e.g. because data structures have changed that are 
converted on upgrades but not on downgrades).


Regards,
Michael



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