Bug#1040297: gnome: Gnome fails to start on login and falls back to GDM3

[Bastian Venthur]

I've just updated all packages from unstable, including glibc and the 
problem is solved. So, it might have been the one you've described. 
Thanks for your help and your work!


Cheers,

Bastian

Am 08.07.23 um 11:32 schrieb Simon McVittie:
> On Thu, 06 Jul 2023 at 09:50:57 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> On Wed, 05 Jul 2023 at 22:44:40 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:
>>>                  #5  0x00007f134cbe97ce g_utf8_collate_key (libglib-2.0.so.0
>>> + 0x8a7ce)
>>>                  #6  0x00007f134ccee180 e_source_set_display_name
>>> (libedataserver-1.2.so.27 + 0x57180)
>>
>> Well, this is messed up - something is setting the display name of an
>> ESource (a calendar or address book or something similar) to a value that
>> is, apparently, so long that allocating memory for its collation key (a
>> version that has been modified to sort in the correct locale-sensitive
>> order) will fail.
> 
> I wonder whether this is the same root cause as #1040452: glibc (>= 2.37-2)
> sometimes generating corrupted locale archives? That might explain why
> g_utf8_collate_key() would get nonsense results.
> 
> Please try with glibc (>= 2.37-5) which fixes that bug, and maybe this
> one too.
> 
>      smcv
> 

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