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.
On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 01:45:35 -0400 Joseph Hayden <tails...@live.com>
wrote:
> Package: libgdm1
> Version: 48~beta-1
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: tails...@live.com
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: trixie/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 6.12.17-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages libgdm1 depends on:
> ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.40.0-5
> ii libc6 2.41-4
> ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.84.0-1
> ii libsystemd0 257.4-1
>
> libgdm1 recommends no packages.
>
> libgdm1 suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
