01-26-2020, 04:53 PM
(01-25-2020, 05:23 PM)gillham Wrote: Be careful upgrading to unstable packages as I installed firefox from unstable (which works) but later did a 'dist-upgrade' that installed a number of new packages from unstable. Then gdm3 wouldn't come up due to a segv somewhere. I tested a few times and figured out a number of packages that needed to be held back. I don't have the list handy right now, but I can post it later. Basically it seems to me there is a compiler problem affecting us.
EDIT: FWIW, here are the packages from unstable I had to hold to keep GDM3 from core dumping. There might be more, this is just what I ran into as mentioned above.
echo "libgjs0g hold" | dpkg --set-selections
echo "libgirepository-1.0-1 hold" | dpkg --set-selections
echo "libglib2.0-0 hold" | dpkg --set-selections
echo "libglib2.0-bin hold" | dpkg --set-selections
echo "libwayland-client0 hold" | dpkg --set-selections
echo "libwayland-server0 hold" | dpkg --set-selections
you need to pin apt preferences and set unstable and experimental packages to lower than 100 priority.
I use 2 for experimental and 3 for unstable just to confirm the configs work.