Desktop failing to start today due to glib2.0 update

[Jono Bacon]

On 08/16/2011 06:55 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Jono and jcastro brought to our attention today a rather nasty bug that
> we expect most users who update oneiric today will hit, which causes the
> GNOME session to fail.  X then exits normally but you're left at the
> console (or a black screen).
>
> The problem was traced to the glib2.0 update to 2.29.16 from today.
>
> As a workaround, if you downgrade to the previous glib2.0, the desktop
> starts up properly (confirmed by Sarvatt, myself, and jcastro).
>
> You may find the old glib2.0 debs in /var/cache/apt/, or from launchpad:
>
>   https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/2.29.14-0ubuntu1/+build/2644912
>   https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/2.29.14-0ubuntu1/+build/2644910
>
Thanks, Bryce. I captured this as a bug at 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/827753

     Jono


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