On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 12:59:27PM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > I just tried to upgrade a set of packages, and at some point during the > upgrade, GNOME restarted, losing my current session. I'm trying to > track down which package to file the bug against, as I'm not sure if it > lies in GNOME, some systemd component, or some dbus service. I could > use some help narrowing it down to the right package or packages. > > I've attached the list of upgraded packages and versions from > /var/log/aptitude > as "pkgs", and the relevant section of the journal as "log". The log > starts from around the time the upgrade caused systemd to re-execute > itself to the point where gdm3 has restarted and started to bring up a > new X session. > > I don't know if the issue lies with some systemd component (like logind > or udev), with some dbus service, with some GNOME component for not > handling service restarts, or somewhere else entirely.
I can reproduce this with a much smaller upgrade: I downgraded just gdm3 and its dependencies libgdm1 and gir1.2-gdm3 to 3.14.1-8, rebooted, then re-upgraded those three packages to 3.14.2-1. During "Setting up gdm3", my GNOME session restarted. Here's the complete log from /var/log/apt/term.log: Log started: 2015-07-09 16:50:32 [... snip "Reading database" progress messages and resulting terminal noise. ...] Preparing to unpack .../gdm3_3.14.2-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking gdm3 (3.14.2-1) over (3.14.1-8) ... Preparing to unpack .../libgdm1_3.14.2-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libgdm1 (3.14.2-1) over (3.14.1-8) ... Preparing to unpack .../gir1.2-gdm3_3.14.2-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking gir1.2-gdm3 (3.14.2-1) over (3.14.1-8) ... Processing triggers for systemd (222-1) ... Processing triggers for dbus (1.8.18-1) ... Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.44.1-1.1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ... Setting up libgdm1 (3.14.2-1) ... Setting up gir1.2-gdm3 (3.14.2-1) ... Setting up gdm3 (3.14.2-1) ... [at this point my session restarted] Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18) ... Log ended: 2015-07-09 16:50:35 _______________________________________________ Pkg-systemd-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-systemd-maintainers
