upgrading systemd on groovy terminates sessions

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo]

Whenever I upgrade systemd on my groovy system, my gnome session is terminated.

This is very annoying, as everything that was running on that session is terminated.

NetworkManager also stops running.

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

I tried reproducing this in a VM, but it was able to upgrade systemd with no problems, is there anything in your logs indicating why the gnome session was terminated?

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (cascardo)]

Hey, Dan.

Thanks for looking into this. I am attaching a journal log from the time I got the failure.

Cascardo.

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

It looks like something happened to dbus, but it's hard to tell what, if anything.

Was this upgrading from 246.6-1ubuntu1.2 to 246.6-1ubuntu1.3, or some other versions?

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (cascardo)]

This was the upgrade in question.

Aptitude 0.8.12: log report
Tue, Apr 13 2021 10:34:25 -0300

  IMPORTANT: this log only lists intended actions; actions which fail
  due to dpkg problems may not be completed.

Will install 16 packages, and remove 0 packages.
7168 B of disk space will be used
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[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] grub-common:amd64 2.04-1ubuntu35.4
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] grub-efi-amd64-bin:amd64 2.04-1ubuntu35.4
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] grub-pc:amd64 2.04-1ubuntu35.4
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] grub-pc-bin:amd64 2.04-1ubuntu35.4
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] grub2-common:amd64 2.04-1ubuntu35.4
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] libseccomp2:amd64 2.4.3-1ubuntu4
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] linux-firmware:amd64 1.190.3
[HOLD] grub-efi-amd64-signed:amd64 1.155.4+2.04-1ubuntu35.4
[UPGRADE] alsa-ucm-conf:amd64 1.2.2-1ubuntu5.1 -> 1.2.2-1ubuntu5.2
[UPGRADE] apt:amd64 2.1.10ubuntu0.2 -> 2.1.10ubuntu0.3
[UPGRADE] apt-utils:amd64 2.1.10ubuntu0.2 -> 2.1.10ubuntu0.3
[UPGRADE] libapt-pkg6.0:amd64 2.1.10ubuntu0.2 -> 2.1.10ubuntu0.3
[UPGRADE] libnss-mymachines:amd64 246.6-1ubuntu1.2 -> 246.6-1ubuntu1.3
[UPGRADE] libnss-systemd:amd64 246.6-1ubuntu1.2 -> 246.6-1ubuntu1.3
[UPGRADE] libpam-systemd:amd64 246.6-1ubuntu1.2 -> 246.6-1ubuntu1.3
[UPGRADE] libsystemd-dev:amd64 246.6-1ubuntu1.2 -> 246.6-1ubuntu1.3
[UPGRADE] libsystemd0:amd64 246.6-1ubuntu1.2 -> 246.6-1ubuntu1.3
[UPGRADE] libudev-dev:amd64 246.6-1ubuntu1.2 -> 246.6-1ubuntu1.3
[UPGRADE] libudev1:amd64 246.6-1ubuntu1.2 -> 246.6-1ubuntu1.3
[UPGRADE] systemd:amd64 246.6-1ubuntu1.2 -> 246.6-1ubuntu1.3
[UPGRADE] systemd-container:amd64 246.6-1ubuntu1.2 -> 246.6-1ubuntu1.3
[UPGRADE] systemd-sysv:amd64 246.6-1ubuntu1.2 -> 246.6-1ubuntu1.3
[UPGRADE] systemd-timesyncd:amd64 246.6-1ubuntu1.2 -> 246.6-1ubuntu1.3
[UPGRADE] udev:amd64 246.6-1ubuntu1.2 -> 246.6-1ubuntu1.3
========================================

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

i've tried a few times upgrading with different combinations of package versions, but i can't seem to reproduce any problem that terminates the gnome session. I assume you haven't seen it happen again, since there hasn't been another systemd upgrade yet for groovy?

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