Spent an afternoon setting up the Pocket, ran a backup, ran apt update && apt full-upgrade which completed without errors.
Rebooted, and I’m taken straight to the desktop without having to login, but there’s an empty home directory, I can open terminal but it states “this account is currently not available” and exits. All my changes for the day have been reverted. If I logout I just get re-logged in again as “some nameless account”.
Any ideas, and hopefully a fix?
Edit: if I go to file manager, it looks like “home” is now “/run/gdm3/home/gdm-greeter”. I can navigate to /home and see my folder there but I can’t access it - “admin locations are not supported”. However I can go anywhere in the file system. Is there a startup/init file I can edit?
Hi, if this is a new system and if that means that there are no personal information on that system, can you maybe share the contents of your /var/log/apt with us? If you don’t want to share with everybody, you can also send me an email with a tarball to josch@debian.org so that I can debug the issue better.
Upgrades do not touch your /home directory (unless you install an evil package from outside Debian) so all your data should be safe. What you experience sounds like gdm starts a desktop session instead of starting the greeter which is a severe bug indeed.
Did you flash the latest system image from source.mnt.re to an sd-card and upgraded from there? Anything special you did? Then I can try reproducing your issue later today.
Hi., it’s a new system and it’s been running for a day. I installed LocalSend from GitHub but that worked ok. I also installed xfce4 but ended up not using it and went back to Gnome instead. I did several reboot cycles while testing all this out. I’ll see if I can get the log and post it here and thanks for the help!
The system was purchased assembled so I ran it as supplied and all was well until the upgrade.