New Reform user here, I too have broken my sway and wayfire.
I had it running briefly, but quit it and returned to bash to get the system all setup, files copied, external discs setup, etc. I did apt update and apt upgrade, and got errors; aborted the update without installing/upgrading existing packages.
debian unstable/main arm64.
serious bugs of libpam0g (1.5.2-7 → 1.5.3-7) <Outstanding>
b1 - #1065425 - Does not upgrade from libpam0t64
serious bugs of libexpat1 (2.5.0-2 → 2.6.2-1) <Outstanding>
b2 - #1064762 - Parsing of vtk files fails for files that worked previously (e.g. in bookworm)
grave bugs of locales (2.37-8 → 2.37-16) <Resolved in some Version>
b3 - #1068737 - locales fails to install: locales failed to preconfigure, with exit status 2 (Fixed: glibc/2.37-17)
Summary:
libpam0g(1 bug), libexpat1(1 bug), locales(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] n
The first sway problem popped up a red box complaining about line 28, the background image. I clicked “proceed” or launch anyway, and all I got was a grey-blue screen, time in upper right, “1” in a box upper left.
The mouse and clock worked, but keyboard did nothing; tried clicking on everything, ALT-F1 didn’t get me to my root screen (that I had setup prior).
I had no choice but to power off and fsck etc.
This time I did apt reinstall sway. This did not fix the line 28 background complaint. Edited sway config, the path was /usr/share/backgrounds/Sway_Wallpaper_Blue…; I found the reform-mountains.jpg file in backgrounds so I selected that. Ran sway. Now the background was correct, as per the first time, but keyboard locked up, this time I’d set up shutdown -r +10 but still had to fsck.
I did find existing forum thread “sway and wayfire stopped…”
…from back in early March. So I suppose I’m having the same issue.
lscpu says "aarch64, Cortex-A53…:
Here’s my apt log:
Start-Date: 2024-04-10 21:07:02
Commandline: apt install openssh-server
Install: libwrap0:arm64 (7.6.q-33, automatic), openssh-server:arm64 (1:9.7p1-4), runit-helper:arm64 (2.16.2, automatic), xauth:arm64 (1:1.1.2-1, automatic), openssh-sftp-server:arm64 (1:9.7p1-4, automatic), libssl3t64:arm64 (3.2.1-3, automatic)
Upgrade: openssh-client:arm64 (1:9.4p1-1, 1:9.7p1-4), openssl:arm64 (3.0.10-1, 3.2.1-3)
Remove: libssl3:arm64 (3.0.10-1)
End-Date: 2024-04-10 21:07:35
Start-Date: 2024-04-10 21:47:57
Commandline: apt reinstall sway
Install: libxcb-ewmh2:arm64 (0.4.1-1.1+b1, automatic), libdisplay-info1:arm64 (0.1.1-2, automatic), xdg-user-dirs:arm64 (0.18-1, automatic), wmenu:arm64 (0.1.7-1, automatic), libliftoff0:arm64 (0.4.1-1, automatic), libglib2.0-0t64:arm64 (2.78.4-6, automatic), libwlroots12t64:arm64 (0.17.1-2.1, automatic)
Upgrade: libxcb-icccm4:arm64 (0.4.1-1.1, 0.4.1-1.1+b1), libglib2.0-data:arm64 (2.78.0-1, 2.78.4-6), libglib2.0-0:arm64 (2.78.0-1, 2.78.4-6), sway:arm64 (1.8.1-2, 1.9-1+b1), libdw1:arm64 (0.189-4, 0.190-1+b1), libelf1:arm64 (0.189-4, 0.190-1+b1)
Remove: libglib2.0-bin:arm64 (2.78.0-1)
End-Date: 2024-04-10 21:48:18
Start-Date: 2024-04-10 21:48:56
Commandline: apt reinstall wayfire
Install: libwf-config1:arm64 (0.8.0+git20240312-1, automatic), libwf-utils0t64:arm64 (0.8.1-1+b1, automatic), libpng16-16t64:arm64 (1.6.43-5, automatic)
Upgrade: wayfire:arm64 (0.8~2023-09-11-gita85b274, 0.8.1-1+b1)
Remove: libpng16-16:arm64 (1.6.40-1)
End-Date: 2024-04-10 21:49:03
Start-Date: 2024-04-11 02:42:57
Commandline: apt install pmount udisks2
Install: pmount:arm64 (0.9.23-7.1)
Upgrade: udisks2:arm64 (2.10.0-5, 2.10.1-6), libudisks2-0:arm64 (2.10.0-5, 2.10.1-6)
End-Date: 2024-04-11 02:43:08
Any suggestions?