Your message dated Wed, 19 Nov 2014 10:59:23 +0100
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Re: Bug#766241: gnome: dist-upgrade on 20-Oct lost gnome
pixbufs and several tweak settings reset
has caused the Debian Bug report #766241,
regarding gnome: dist-upgrade on 20-Oct lost gnome pixbufs and several tweak
settings reset
to be marked as done.
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Source: gnome
Version: 3.14.1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Performed dist-upgrade on 20-Oct
* What was the outcome of this action?
When system rebooted on 21-Oct unable to login except under basic terminal
* What outcome did you expect instead?
To be able to use the machine
Ran "sudo gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache" to fix
Then tweak-tool and set the basic settings required which had been reset.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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Control: block -1 by 765434
Hi,
Jim Cobley wrote (17 Nov 2014 12:36:34 GMT) :
> Checked /var/log/apt/*.log* from 1st Aug to 20th October. The only ref to an
> update
> to dpkg was dated 31 Aug
> dpkg:amd64 (1.17.10, 1.17.13)
> same for dpkg-dev and libdpkg-perl
Thanks.
So, you were running dpkg 1.17.13 back when the dist-upgrade problem
occurred. That version had the bug that Michael was referring to
(#765434), which explains everything I guess. Hence, I'm closing this
bug report. Please file a new bug report if you see this problem
happen again.
Cheers,
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intrigeri
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