I have a laptop I installed as 16.whatever, then upgrade to 17. The upgrade ran smoothly, and since the upgrade things are mostly working well, but the one point of frustration is ghome-shell will crash. . . after some number of unlocks.
This error gets logged:
[175295.930234] gnome-shell[1331]: segfault at 43c160000000 ip 0000342520c033ad sp 00007ffe01cbb4f0 error 4 likely on CPU 0 (core 0, socket 0)
The lock screen goes away, any running GUI apps are closed, the system appears to go back to a VGA console, while the GUI restarts, bringing me back to a login prompt.
Any suggestions for troubleshooting? I am current on patches.
That is odd, it's a segmentation fault
I don't know your background, so to cut it short, a segmentation fault is essentially when one program access memory that doesn't belong to it
Hm, in that case, do you have enough internet bandwidth to test another Linux-Based OS with a newer version of the desktop? Just from a USB, no need to install anything
If you cannot replicate it there, it was probably already fixed in an update that Zorin hasn't gotten yet, so they would need to apply the patch and roll it out manually to users.
Yes, the kernel is the base for the hardware drivers on your system; so it is worth trying a different kernel build if your hardware is not working correctly.
A Gnome Shell crash can be caused by a lot of different things and checking the kernel is a way of looking at the graphics hardware to see if it is the fault.
Ran into an issue trying the upgrade. The first couple steps completed successfully, but then:
$ sudo apt install linux-generic-6.07
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-generic-6.07 : Depends: linux-headers-6.7.5-060705-generic but it is not installable
Depends: linux-image-unsigned-6.7.5-060705-generic but it is not installable
Depends: linux-modules-6.7.5-060705-generic but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I'm assuming you meant sudo apt-get --fix-missing since apt --fix-missing isn't a valid command.
Still running into problems though:
crtxreavr@spare:~$ sudo apt-get --fix-missing
apt 2.4.11 (amd64)
Usage: apt-get [options] command
apt-get [options] install|remove pkg1 [pkg2 ...]
apt-get [options] source pkg1 [pkg2 ...]
apt-get is a command line interface for retrieval of packages
and information about them from authenticated sources and
for installation, upgrade and removal of packages together
with their dependencies.
Most used commands:
update - Retrieve new lists of packages
upgrade - Perform an upgrade
install - Install new packages (pkg is libc6 not libc6.deb)
reinstall - Reinstall packages (pkg is libc6 not libc6.deb)
remove - Remove packages
purge - Remove packages and config files
autoremove - Remove automatically all unused packages
dist-upgrade - Distribution upgrade, see apt-get(8)
dselect-upgrade - Follow dselect selections
build-dep - Configure build-dependencies for source packages
satisfy - Satisfy dependency strings
clean - Erase downloaded archive files
autoclean - Erase old downloaded archive files
check - Verify that there are no broken dependencies
source - Download source archives
download - Download the binary package into the current directory
changelog - Download and display the changelog for the given package
See apt-get(8) for more information about the available commands.
Configuration options and syntax is detailed in apt.conf(5).
Information about how to configure sources can be found in sources.list(5).
Package and version choices can be expressed via apt_preferences(5).
Security details are available in apt-secure(8).
This APT has Super Cow Powers.
crtxreavr@spare:~$ sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade && sudo apt install linux-generic-6.07
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/zorinos/apps/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:6 https://packages.zorinos.com/stable jammy InRelease
Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/zorinos/drivers/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:8 https://packages.zorinos.com/patches jammy InRelease
Hit:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/zorinos/patches/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:10 https://packages.zorinos.com/apps jammy InRelease
Hit:11 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/tuxinvader/jammy-mainline/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/zorinos/stable/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:13 https://packages.zorinos.com/drivers jammy InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-generic-6.07 : Depends: linux-headers-6.7.5-060705-generic but it is not installable
Depends: linux-image-unsigned-6.7.5-060705-generic but it is not installable
Depends: linux-modules-6.7.5-060705-generic but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
crtxreavr@spare:~$
The relevant output has gotten pretty long, so I put in on this paste site: View paste I77A
The TL;DR version is:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-generic-6.07 : Depends: linux-headers-6.7.5-060705-generic but it is not installable
Depends: linux-image-unsigned-6.7.5-060705-generic but it is not installable
Depends: linux-modules-6.7.5-060705-generic but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Well... If this was me on my machine, I would abandon the 6.7 kernel attempt as it may be an issue with the repository package (unusual, but possible) and test the 6.6 kernel from the same repository:
