budgie-wm crashes immediately when mutter-common has been upgraded to version 46.0

[scottfk]

mutter-common 46.0 packages remove the org.gnome.mutter.x11 gconf schema. This causes budgie-wm to crash immediately on login.

Downgrading to 45.3 fixes everything.

$ apt policy mutter-common
mutter-common:
  Installed: 45.3-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 46.0-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
     46.0-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/main i386 Packages
 *** 45.3-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: budgie-core 10.9.1-3ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 6.8.1-060801-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: Budgie:GNOME
Date: Sun Mar 24 16:00:24 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-03-19 (736 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Budgie 21.10 "Impish Indri" - Release amd64 (20211012)
SourcePackage: budgie-desktop
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2023-11-03 (142 days ago)

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

This is because magpie has a dependency on mutter-common.

The schema comes from the mutter ubuntu x11 patch which has been temporarily disabled

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+changelog

Once it has been readded then things will work correctly

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

There's also a Noble dist upgrade problem with schemas being tracked in bug 2054761. Keep it in mind in case there's any overlap between the bugs.

[scottfk (scottfk)]

FYI: Still missing from the latest and greatest mutter-common:

$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  mutter-common
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 47.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,096 B disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/main amd64 mutter-common all 46.0-1ubuntu3 [47.2 kB]
Fetched 47.2 kB in 0s (1,005 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 886859 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mutter-common_46.0-1ubuntu3_all.deb ...
Unpacking mutter-common (46.0-1ubuntu3) over (45.3-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up mutter-common (46.0-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0t64:i386 (2.79.3-3ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.12.0-3build4) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0t64:amd64 (2.79.3-3ubuntu5) ...

$ ls -l /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.mutter.x11.gschema.xml
ls: cannot access '/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.mutter.x11.gschema.xml': No such file or directory

$ dpkg-query -S org.gnome.mutter.x11
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern *org.gnome.mutter.x11*

[scottfk (scottfk)]

All good now:

$ ls -l /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.mutter.x11.gschema.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1117 Mar 31 01:09 /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.mutter.x11.gschema.xml

$ dpkg-query -S org.gnome.mutter.x11
magpie-common: /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.mutter.x11.gschema.xml

[scottfk (scottfk)]

$ apt policy mutter-common magpie-common
mutter-common:
  Installed: 46.0-1ubuntu6
  Candidate: 46.0-1ubuntu6
  Version table:
 *** 46.0-1ubuntu6 500
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     46.0-1ubuntu3 500
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/main i386 Packages
     45.3-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main i386 Packages
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main i386 Packages
magpie-common:
  Installed: 0.9.3-0ubuntu7
  Candidate: 0.9.3-0ubuntu7
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.3-0ubuntu7 500
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.9.3-0ubuntu6 500
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/universe i386 Packages
     0.9.3-0ubuntu5 500
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe i386 Packages
     0.9.3-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/universe i386 Packages

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package magpie - 0.9.3-0ubuntu7

---------------
magpie (0.9.3-0ubuntu7) noble; urgency=medium

  * No-change rebuild for CVE-2024-3094

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Sun, 31 Mar 2024 00:09:41 +0000