We need the full apt and upgrader logs to better understand why gnome- shell is broken.
The date you reported corresponds with when a mutter update was being pushed to -updates. Perhaps this is a bad interaction with Ubuntu's phased updates. ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2043395 Title: Updating to Ubuntu 23.10 (mantic) fails as the gnome-remote-desktop & gnome-shell packages are broken Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Running do-release-upgrade on 23.04 (lunar), **ubuntu-desktop-minimal based** install: 2023-11-10 07:03:16,578 DEBUG nvidiaUpdate() 2023-11-10 07:03:20,125 INFO no old nvidia driver installed, installing no new 2023-11-10 07:03:20,125 DEBUG quirks: running PostDistUpgradeCache 2023-11-10 07:03:20,125 DEBUG running Quirks.PostDistUpgradeCache 2023-11-10 07:03:20,237 DEBUG Comparing 6.2.0-35 with 2023-11-10 07:03:20,237 DEBUG Comparing 6.2.0-36 with 6.2.0-35 2023-11-10 07:03:20,238 DEBUG Comparing 6.5.0-10 with 6.2.0-36 2023-11-10 07:03:20,554 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'Broken packages after upgrade: gnome-remote-desktop, gnome-shell' 2023-11-10 07:03:20,564 DEBUG abort called To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/2043395/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp