Post B6BW11wAfYYcm8Fw6S by DerivativeThoughts@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B6AQtbMoMgQzPfOZV2 by mntmn@mastodon.social
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       i messed up my system a bit by restarting before the 3000+ packages of an apt full-upgrade were configured, and this resulted in ye olde gdm3 endless-start-fail-loop with farting noises on the speakers. it would be really great to make it not endlessly restart but revert to a getty after a few fails. i would think this shouldn't be too hard to do in the systemd unit?
       
 (DIR) Post #B6AQzfOEJwyvcwx0ue by cr1901@mastodon.social
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       @mntmn > with farting noises on the speakersI remember this would happen on Windoze 95 if you moved the mouse under heavy load. Or if you looked at it or breathed the wrong way :D.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6AR079f5hxvjsLm5o by mntmn@mastodon.social
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       (was able to recover via serial-console-on-usb feature on pocket mb 2.0, but it is really inconvenient to not be able to log in because of this gdm3 failure mode that i'm not encountering for the first time)
       
 (DIR) Post #B6ARq9vO2QyRO5URMW by mntmn@mastodon.social
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       narrator: and indeed, it took quite some time.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6BW11wAfYYcm8Fw6S by DerivativeThoughts@mastodon.social
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       @mntmn if it makes you feel better I had this happen on my x86 Ubuntu machine with a seemingly full correct update 5 months ago. No solution but to reimage