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?
(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)
narrator: and indeed, it took quite some time.
@mntmn Some of us are still doing this on imx8mq and a311d even! :D
@josch @mntmn If there was no old school there would be no new school.