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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0005727 | Kali Linux | [All Projects] General Bug | public | 2019-10-06 09:50 | 2020-12-01 10:48 |
| Reporter | j_jito | Assigned To | rhertzog | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | block | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 2019.3 | ||||
| Target Version | Fixed in Version | ||||
| Summary | 0005727: Gnome Shell crashes after "libgnome-desktop-3-18" installation | ||||
| Description | After upgrading my kali packages, like I usually do every Saturday, everything went well, till I reboot, and BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!! Gnome crash and doesn't start, no login screen, only black screen with curser. After I switch to another VT, here is what I found in /var/log/messages/ in the screenshoot "asset2" below | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | apt update && apt full-upgrade The following NEW packages will be installed: gir1.2-handy-0.0 libgnome-desktop-3-18 libhandy-0.0-0 The following packages will be upgraded: cheese eog evince evince-common gdm3 gir1.2-freedesktop gir1.2-gdm-1.0 gir1.2-glib-2.0 gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 gir1.2-poppler-0.18 gir1.2-totem-1.0 gjs gnome-boxes gnome-font-viewer gnome-keyring gnome-keyring-pkcs11 gnome-screenshot gnome-software gnome-tweaks libevdocument3-4 libevview3-3 libgdm1 libgnome-desktop-3-dev libnautilus-extension1a libpam-gnome-keyring libtotem0 nautilus totem totem-plugins Need to get 121 MB of archives. After this operation, 19,1 MB of additional disk space will be used. The upgrading packages require the installation of "libgnome-desktop-3-18" and this one breaks gnome after reboot | ||||
| Additional Information | As kali admins suggested for a temporary fix, until the release of a permanent fix from Gnome, here is what you can do: - systemctl set-default multi-user.target (work in text mode) OR - apt install lightdm (lightdm instead of gdm3) | ||||
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Here is the logs screenshot |
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#screenshot asset2.JPG (672,236 bytes) |
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I am also having this issue and was able to narrow it down to the gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 package. |
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If you upgrade gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0, it will automatically install libgnome-desktop-3-18 In any case, libgnome-desktop-3-18 is causing black screen issues and breaks gnome shell |
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Yes it is caused by gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 version 3.34.0-2, i downgrade it to 3.30.2.1-2 . The bug on Debian side: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=941782 . |
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Ok, after reading more about the bug, it only affects gnome-shell <= 3.34. Kali need to release the latest gnome-shell in order to fix this Gnome has fixed the issue one month ago, because at kali, we're still using gnome-shell 3.30.2 |
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We have downgraded the gnome-desktop3 source package in kali-rolling for now as switching to the new gnome-shell 3.34 requires some preliminary work to update our kali menu patch (in gnome-shell-extensions). If you have already upgraded to the broken version, run this command in a root command line: # apt install gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0/kali-rolling Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Selected version '3.30.2.1-2' (kali-rolling [amd64]) for 'gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0' The following packages will be DOWNGRADED: gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 [...] |
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After downgrading gnome-desktop3-data (apt install gnome-desktop3-data/kali-rolling), this is what I get after upgrading: apt update && apt full-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it. The following packages will be REMOVED: evince folder-color gnome-core gnome-sushi nautilus nautilus-share totem-plugins The following NEW packages will be installed: gir1.2-handy-0.0 libhandy-0.0-0 The following packages have been kept back: cheese eog gir1.2-totem-1.0 gnome-font-viewer gnome-software libtotem0 totem The following packages will be upgraded: evince-common gdm3 gir1.2-freedesktop gir1.2-gdm-1.0 gir1.2-glib-2.0 gir1.2-ibus-1.0 gnome-boxes gnome-keyring gnome-keyring-pkcs11gnome-screenshot gnome-tweaks libevdocument3-4 libevview3-3 libgmime-3.0-0 libnautilus-extension1a libpam-gnome-keyring Need to get 121 MB of archives. After this operation, 14,5 MB of additional disk space will be used. The good thing, libgnome-desktop-3-18 won't be installed, but I'll loose important packages like Nautilus (File Manager) and Evince (PDF Reader) and other gnome apps won't be updated! |
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I can confirm rhertzog solution is working I just did a full-upgrade this morning, and everything worked well. gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 nor libgnome-desktop-3-18 won't be installed, anymore. Thank you guys |
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Debian unstable has release patch for those packages libgnome-desktop-3-18 = 3.34.1-1 gnome-desktop3-data = 3.34.1-1 I have installed them, and indeed no more crash or black login screen. Kali admins can push them into kali-rolling repo, so it can fix other issues like Nautilus or gnome-sushi removal |
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We completed the transition to Gnome 3.34. Should be fixed in kali-rolling now. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2019-10-06 09:50 | j_jito | New Issue | |
| 2019-10-06 09:52 | j_jito | Note Added: 0011158 | |
| 2019-10-06 09:54 | j_jito | File Added: asset2.JPG | |
| 2019-10-06 09:54 | j_jito | Note Added: 0011159 | |
| 2019-10-06 16:09 | morepoints | Note Added: 0011160 | |
| 2019-10-06 17:09 | j_jito | Note Added: 0011161 | |
| 2019-10-06 18:14 | fl0 | Note Added: 0011162 | |
| 2019-10-06 18:31 | j_jito | Note Added: 0011163 | |
| 2019-10-06 19:52 | rhertzog | Note Added: 0011164 | |
| 2019-10-06 20:13 | rhertzog | Assigned To | => rhertzog |
| 2019-10-06 20:13 | rhertzog | Status | new => assigned |
| 2019-10-06 20:32 | j_jito | Note Added: 0011166 | |
| 2019-10-07 10:16 | sbrun | Relationship added | related to 0005726 |
| 2019-10-07 15:39 | j_jito | Note Added: 0011168 | |
| 2019-10-09 18:35 | j_jito | Note Added: 0011180 | |
| 2019-10-10 11:40 | rhertzog | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 2019-10-10 11:40 | rhertzog | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2019-10-10 11:40 | rhertzog | Note Added: 0011182 | |
| 2020-12-01 10:48 | g0tmi1k | Priority | immediate => normal |