Thank you for your suggestions. I'll give it try and report back.
On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 16:16:56 +0100 Simon McVittie <[email protected]> wrote:> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo> > On Mon, 07 Oct 2019 at 08:55:14 -0500, william l-k wrote:> > Problem: Instead of getting the authentication screen, the system has the> > cursor appear (which moves around just fine so the system isn't frozen), but> > never reaches a working gnome session.> > This looks like #941782. Please upgrade gnome-shell to version 3.34.x> (which was only in unstable until recently, but has just migrated into> testing, so it might not be available on your mirror yet), and see> whether this resolves the bug.> > If you cannot upgrade to gnome-shell 3.34 yet, downgrading the> gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 package to the version from Debian 10 'buster'> is thought to work around this bug.> > > We are all on Debian testing. We also all had unattended upgrades running. I'll let you know if I'm able to get this to work. I'd probably forget how to fix anything if nothing ever went wrong, and then I'd be helpless in the face of disaster > > The testing/unstable suites sometimes break, despite our best efforts;> this is particularly true shortly after a stable release, as disruptive> changes that were queued up during the freeze get uploaded. If you run> testing/unstable, I would recommend using apt-listbugs to avoid upgrading Thanks for the tip on this. > to a version with known release-critical bugs.> > On critical or remote systems, I would recommend using the latest> Debian stable release, currently Debian 10 'buster', rather than> testing/unstable. > I would not recommend using unattended-upgrades with testing/unstable.> It's usually OK as a way to install security updates on a stable system,> but testing/unstable has too many transitions between incompatible versions> for unattended-upgrades to do the right thing in all cases. Learned this the hard way. I renamed the program for when running on a testing system: unintended-upgrades > > smcv> >
