gnome-session removed during partial upgrade to Precise Beta1
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Brian Murray |
Bug Description
During a partial upgrade to Precise Beta1 last night, update-manager removed a large number of packages, including gnome-session. The machine would boot to the login screen, but logging in (with the correct password) would simply return to the login screen again with no error message. The login screen also gave no options for different sessions (Ubuntu, Ubuntu 2D, etc).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.156.6
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Mar 4 10:24:46 2012
GsettingsChanges:
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InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-04 (0 days ago)
Related branches
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
status: | New → In Progress |
I think adding gnome-session to the removal blacklist would make it easier to recover from a situation like this. We had to log in at a console to be able to be to run 'apt-get -f install'.