Bug#995032: gnome-session segfaults - no GNOME session possible at all (white screen to contact the system administrator)

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Samstag, dem 25.09.2021 um 03:48 -0400 schrieb Jeremy Bicha:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 12:30 AM Michael Ott <michael at k-c13.org> wrote:
> > The problem is not gnome-shell. It is the gobject-introspection.
> > After downgrade this packages from 1.70.0-1+b1 to 1.70.0-1 it works
> > again.

Indeed, version 1.70.0-1+b1 had already been installed on the system.

> gobject-introspection was rebuilt as part of the libffi transition.
> (That's where the +b1 part of the version name comes from.) The
> transition is still in progress. Maybe the problem is that you didn't
> have the rebuilt gjs installed?
> 
> The rebuilt gjs is version 1.68.4-1+b1

I checked the apt logs and it seems this version was pulled into my system only
today and may have not been available at the time of writing the report.

Now the system seems to work again. I agree with Simon. If possibe we should
avoid such breakages (even in Sid).

Regards, Daniel
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