#1100458 libgdm1: "Oh no, something has gone wrong"

Package:
libgdm1
Source:
libgdm1
Description:
GNOME Display Manager (shared library)
Submitter:
Joseph Hayden
Date:
2025-03-14 05:57:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1100458#5
Date:
2025-03-14 05:45:35 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I updated my system this evening, after a long day, and found that when I restarted my system, it gave me the benign error "Oh no, something has gone wrong, please contact systems administrator", which, of course, being the sole proprietor of the system that I am administrating, I felt obligated to try and solve the problem. I attempted, in vain, to restart gdm.service, which I did do successfully, only for the same error to appear. I also tried, in vain, to update any of the gnome release canidate packages which have been held back, which also ended in vain. I would greatly appreciate it if this could be resolved in a timely manner. The extensions I had installed, if that is useful for you, are the notification block, the caffeine installation, and gs-connect, though in earnest, I had never bothered to set it up. I do not know of any potential solutions to solve this problem, and until someone has a suggestion, will assume it is just a matter of more packages needing porting from unstable down to testing branch. Still, this should be an unacceptable behavior, as one can see. I hope you find a quick solution, and have a wonderful day.

#1100458#10
Date:
2025-03-14 05:53:32 UTC
From:
To:
I found a solution, and I hope this will not effect others, if it does,
they should hopefully be able to read this, though, for reasons unknown
to me, gnome-shell did not wish to update from 15 to 16 without
manually selecting install. After doing sudo apt install gnome-shell,
accepting that I would uninstall the previous version and install the
new version, then restarting, the system restored to life. I hope this
will only effect testing users, but if it becomes part of the problem
with sudo apt dist-upgrade, then there could be lots of users stuck in
the future.
when I restarted my system, it gave me the benign error "Oh no,
something has gone wrong, please contact systems administrator", which,
of course, being the sole proprietor of the system that I am
administrating, I felt obligated to try and solve the problem. I
attempted, in vain, to restart gdm.service, which I did do
successfully, only for the same error to appear. I also tried, in vain,
to update any of the gnome release canidate packages which have been
held back, which also ended in vain. I would greatly appreciate it if
this could be resolved in a timely manner. The extensions I had
installed, if that is useful for you, are the notification block, the
caffeine installation, and gs-connect, though in earnest, I had never
bothered to set it up. I do not know of any potential solutions to
solve this problem, and until someone has a suggestion, will assume it
is just a matter of more packages needing porting from unstable down to
testing branch. Still, this should be an unacceptable behavior, as one
can see. I hope you find a quick solution, and have a wonderful day.
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#1100458#15
Date:
2025-03-14 05:53:40 UTC
From:
To:
I found a solution, and I hope this will not effect others, if it does,
they should hopefully be able to read this, though, for reasons unknown
to me, gnome-shell did not wish to update from 15 to 16 without
manually selecting install. After doing sudo apt install gnome-shell,
accepting that I would uninstall the previous version and install the
new version, then restarting, the system restored to life. I hope this
will only effect testing users, but if it becomes part of the problem
with sudo apt dist-upgrade, then there could be lots of users stuck in
the future.
when I restarted my system, it gave me the benign error "Oh no,
something has gone wrong, please contact systems administrator", which,
of course, being the sole proprietor of the system that I am
administrating, I felt obligated to try and solve the problem. I
attempted, in vain, to restart gdm.service, which I did do
successfully, only for the same error to appear. I also tried, in vain,
to update any of the gnome release canidate packages which have been
held back, which also ended in vain. I would greatly appreciate it if
this could be resolved in a timely manner. The extensions I had
installed, if that is useful for you, are the notification block, the
caffeine installation, and gs-connect, though in earnest, I had never
bothered to set it up. I do not know of any potential solutions to
solve this problem, and until someone has a suggestion, will assume it
is just a matter of more packages needing porting from unstable down to
testing branch. Still, this should be an unacceptable behavior, as one
can see. I hope you find a quick solution, and have a wonderful day.
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