On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 14:12:43 +0100 ael <law_ence....@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Package: slim
> Version: 1.3.6-5
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
>
> I am not sure that this is a slim problem, but as the system is almost
> unusable, I cannot investigate.
>
> After an apt-get upgrade earlier today, the system presents a new slim
> login page. Logging in works, but then the whole system restarts X
> (presumably) and the sylim login prompt appear again. This ahhpens in
> what seems to be an infinite loop, roughly every minute or so.
>
> I am only able to compose this message outside X using a pseudo
> terminal. The restarts interrupt the terminal and represents the slim
> login page. Fortunately the terminal context is retained so I can switch
> back to the terminal.
>
> I have not yet tried removing slim which I hope I may be able to do
> despite the constant restarts.
>
> I suspect slim because it seems to be the only likely candidate in the
> set of upgrades earlier today, and it is the slim login screen which
> keeps looping.
>
> Presumably others will report this problem as well.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 9.0
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64
> (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages slim depends on:
> ii dbus 1.10.18-1
> ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.60
> ii libc6 2.24-10
> ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.7+b1
> ii libfreetype6 2.6.3-3.1
> ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-14
> ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.5.1-2
> ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.5
> ii libpng16-16 1.6.28-1
> ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-14
> ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3
> ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
> ii libxft2 2.3.2-1+b2
> ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2
> ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1
> ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1
> ii lsb-base 9.20161125
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
>
