Re: Git install crashed nearly whole System

From: Santiago Torres Arias <santiago@nyu.edu>
Date: Mar 14, 2021, 18:52 UTC
Message-ID: <YE5bU18AExEHkwtX@meme-cluster>
In-Reply-To: <8aa7be071abc23371397f72b725babc4e4e90190.camel@avr-fun.de>

Hi,

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 07:23:40PM +0100, Christian Strasser wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I installed Git yesterday on my system. For that I used “sudo apt-get
> install git-all”.

I'm not sure if this list is aware of this specific debian meta-package, but this reads like a scary packaging mistake that needs fixing asap. I think this would probably be sent to the Debian packager for git-all. You can probably ask the people listed as uploaders in here[1]

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> During the installation a lot of very important
> packages got removed! It was horrible, and I couldn’t use my gnome
> desktop environment at all! A lot off dependencies got lost!
> Fortunately, I could save my system through read out the information
> about removed packages from the apt history.
> 
> Today I totally removed git and tried to install everything again with
> the same instruction. The same misbehavior did happen! 
> 
> For more information I added the history as an attachment to this
> email. 
> 
> Information about my system:
> 
> Kernel          : Linux 4.19.0-14-amd64 (x86_64)
> Version         : #1 SMP Debian 4.19.171-2 (2021-01-30)
> C Library       : GNU C Library / (Debian GLIBC 2.28-10) 2.28
> Distribution    : Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
> 
> Gnome           : Version: 3.30.2-11~deb10u2 (apt-cache show gnome-
> shell  grep Version) -> 3.30.2
> 
> Best regards,
> Christian

> ...
> Start-Date: 2021-03-13  19:10:24
> Remove: gnome-color-manager:amd64 (3.30.0-2), gnome-session:amd64 (3.30.1-2), gvfs-backends:amd64 (1.38.1-5), gnome-control-center:amd64 (1:3.30.3-2~deb10u1), chrome-gnome-shell:amd64 (10.1-5), rtkit:amd64 (0.11-6), gnome-software:amd64 (3.30.6-5), gnome-settings-daemon:amd64 (3.30.2-3), network-manager-gnome:amd64 (1.8.20-1.1), gnome-sushi:amd64 (3.30.0-2), gdm3:amd64 (3.30.2-3), network-manager:amd64 (1.14.6-2+deb10u1), packagekit-tools:amd64 (1.1.12-5), gnome-tweak-tool:amd64 (3.30.2-1), gnome-disk-utility:amd64 (3.30.2-3), gnome-tweaks:amd64 (3.30.2-1), gnome-music:amd64 (3.30.2-1), udisks2:amd64 (2.8.1-4), gvfs-fuse:amd64 (1.38.1-5), nautilus:amd64 (3.30.5-2), gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-panel:amd64 (18-1), systemd-sysv:amd64 (241-7~deb10u6), libpam-systemd:amd64

These last removals in particular look rather bad, but I don't see how they could be triggered by downloading git-all. Are you sure this only happens when you run apt install git-all?

Cheers! -Santiago

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/git