Lucie / minute
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?
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Show threadLucie / minuteMay 10
(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)
Show threadLucie / minuteMay 10
narrator: and indeed, it took quite some time.
Show threadOtte Homan - remember GeordieMay 10
@mntmn I'm just disappointed that Mark Zuckerborough hasn't yet tried to buy Metafont ;-)
Show threadjoschMay 11
@mntmn Some of us are still doing this on imx8mq and a311d even! :D
Show threadmhoyeMay 11
@josch @mntmn If there was no old school there would be no new school.
Show threadWilliam D. JonesMay 10

@mntmn > with farting noises on the speakers

I 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.

Show threadSimon RichterMay 11
@mntmn the annoying thing is that this happens way more often now that a seatd restart can kill your X session's access to the keyboard. This used to be a lot less brittle when it was a horrible hack.
Show threadDerivativeThoughtsMay 11
@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