Package: packagekit
Version: 1.3.3-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Automated unattended updates at OS shutdown time led to critical
packages being removed. This effectively led to my system being
in an unusable state.
From /var/log/apt/history.log:
Start-Date: 2025-12-17 01:40:26
Commandline: packagekit role='update-packages'
Install: libgvplugin-gd8:amd64 (14.1.1-1, automatic), libgvc7:amd64 (14.1.1-1,
automatic), libgvplugin-pango8:amd64 (14.1.1-1, automatic), libxdot4:amd64
(14.1.1-1, automatic)
Upgrade: xkb-data:amd64 (2.42-1, 2.46-1), graphviz:amd64 (2.42.4-3, 14.1.1-1)
Remove: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau:amd64 (1:1.0.18-1),
xserver-xorg-input-evdev:amd64 (1:2.11.0-1), console-setup:amd64 (1.244),
xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu:amd64 (25.0.0-1), xserver-xorg-core:amd64
(2:21.1.21-1), xserver-xorg-input-all:amd64 (1:7.7+26),
xserver-xorg-video-intel:amd64 (2:2.99.917+git20210115-1), libgvc6:amd64
(2.42.4-3), xserver-xorg:amd64 (1:7.7+26), xserver-xorg-video-vesa:amd64
(1:2.6.0-2), console-setup-linux:amd64 (1.244), xserver-xorg-video-radeon:amd64
(1:22.0.0-1), xserver-xorg-input-synaptics:amd64 (1.9.2-1+b2),
xserver-xorg-video-vmware:amd64 (1:13.4.0-2), task-desktop:amd64 (3.85),
xserver-xorg-input-libinput:amd64 (1.5.0-1), xorg:amd64 (1:7.7+26),
task-gnome-desktop:amd64 (3.85), xserver-xorg-input-wacom:amd64 (1.2.4-1),
keyboard-configuration:amd64 (1.244), xserver-xorg-video-all:amd64 (1:7.7+26),
xserver-xorg-video-ati:amd64 (1:22.0.0-1), xserver-xorg-video-fbdev:amd64
(1:0.5.0-2)
End-Date: 2025-12-17 01:40:45
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
At this point I am unable to recover due to unmet dependencies.
I guess I now need to wait for relevant packages to be updated
before being able to manually recover.
* What was the outcome of this action?
My system is efectively unusable.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Packegit should not have removed packages and instead should have
deffered updates to whenever dependencies could be met.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.17.12+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages packagekit depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.69
ii libappstream5 1.1.1-1
ii libapt-pkg7.0 3.1.12
ii libc6 2.42-6
ii libgcc-s1 15.2.0-11
ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.86.3-1
ii libglib2.0-bin 2.86.3-1
ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.26.9-1
ii libjansson4 2.14-2+b4
ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.3.3-1
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 126-2
ii libsqlite3-0 3.46.1-8
ii libstdc++6 15.2.0-11
ii libsystemd0 259~rc3-1
ii polkitd 126-2
Versions of packages packagekit recommends:
ii appstream 1.1.1-1
ii packagekit-tools 1.3.3-1
ii systemd 259~rc3-1
packagekit suggests no packages.
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