On Sun, 31 Jan 2021, at 17:46, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2021-01-31 17:09 +0000, Gareth Evans wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to install gnome-online-accounts on Debian 10.7 with Mate:
> >
> >
> > $ sudo apt install gnome-control-center gnome-online-accounts
> > [...]
> > Package gnome-control-center is not available, but is referred to by
> > another package.
> > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> > is only available from another source
> > However the following packages replace it:
> > gnome-control-center-data
> > E: Package 'gnome-control-center' has no installation candidate
> >
> > $ sudo apt install gnome-online-accounts
> > [...]
> > Recommended packages:
> > gnome-control-center
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> > gnome-online-accounts
> > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > [...]
> >
> >
> > gnome-control-center-data doesn't seem to provide gnome-control-center
> > as the first apt install blurb seems to me to suggest (but neither
> > does it seem that it should!)
> >
> > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gnome-control-center
> >
> > shows gnome-control-center 1:3.38.3-1 is in testing, but also that a
> > stable version exists - 1:3.30.3-2~deb10u1 - isn't this what should be
> > installed upon request, along with dependencies?
>
> Yes. Possible explanations: your sources.list is broken, or you have
> assigned a negative pin priority to gnome-control-center (see
> apt_preferences(5)).
>
> What does "apt policy" print?
>
> Cheers,
> Sven
>
>
Hi Sven, thanks.
$ apt policy
includes
Pinned packages:
[...]
gnome-control-center -> 1:3.30.3-2~deb10u1 with priority -30000
[...]
amongst other gnome components.
I had abandoned a previous gnome desktop installation because apt-listbugs had
complaints about multiple components. I hadn't realised it pins packages
rather than just abandoning the installation if told to, although it does say
so upon closer inspection :)
I deleted /etc/apt/preferences.d/apt-listbugs and approved the installation of
gnome-control-center
gnome-online-accounts
which succeeded, but:
Issue 1:
$ gnome-control-center online-accounts
**
ERROR:../shell/cc-shell-model.c:458:cc_shell_model_set_panel_visibility:
assertion failed: (valid)
Aborted
$ gnome-control-center gnome-online-accounts
**
ERROR:../shell/cc-shell-model.c:458:cc_shell_model_set_panel_visibility:
assertion failed: (valid)
Aborted
sudo gives the same result.
This doesn't seem to relate to the bugs reported by apt-listbugs, which shows:
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
grave bugs of gnome-settings-daemon (→ 3.30.2-3) <Forwarded>
b1 - #919914 - gnome-tweaks now equates "don't suspend on lid close" with
"don't lock on lid close" (security issue)
grave bugs of gnome-control-center (→ 1:3.30.3-2~deb10u1) <Forwarded>
b2 - #913978 - is not accessible with Orca screenreader
grave bugs of mousetweaks (→ 3.12.0-5) <Resolved in some Version>
b3 - #956523 - mousetweaks ends with segmentation fault (Fixed:
mousetweaks/3.32.0-3)
Summary:
gnome-settings-daemon(1 bug), gnome-control-center(1 bug), mousetweaks(1 bug)
Issue 2:
I tried to install task-gnome-desktop to see if it works with the full works
installed, but even after deleting /etc/apt/pref*d/apt-listbugs and rebooting,
apt-listbugs isn't offering the choice to install task-gnome-desktop but going
straight to ("user-initiated") abort:
$ sudo apt install -y task-gnome-desktop | tee gnome.txt
[...]
Summary:
[multiple packages] pinned by adding Pin preferences in
/etc/apt/preferences.d/apt-listbugs. Restart APT session to enable
**********************************************************************
****** Exiting with an error in order to stop the installation. ******
**********************************************************************
[...]
: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt returned an error code (10)
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt
$ man apt-listbugs
"... if any such bug is found, apt-listbugs warns the user and asks how to
proceed ...
EXIT STATUS [...]
10 If the program ran successfully in apt mode, but you decided to
abort the installation/upgrade."
That is not the case here.
Fwiw...
$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs
// Before installing packages, check whether they have release-critical bugs.
// If you don't like it, comment it out.
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt";};
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "3";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::InfoFD "20";
AptListbugs::Severities "critical,grave,serious";
// AptListbugs::IgnoreRegexp "FTBFS";
Any advice on either issue much appreciated.
Many thanks,
Gareth
