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After the latest update I can't access the GUI on Ubuntu 22.04. When the system finished the update and restarted I'm met with a black terminal screen asking for my login and password. I've tried sudo apt update and upgrade and I'm met with:

gnome-shell: depends: gnome-shell-common (= 42.5-0ubuntu1) but 42.9-0ubuntu2 is to be installed

Recommends: gdm3 (>= 3.10.0.1-3~) but won't be installed Recommends: ubuntu-session but won't be installed or gnome-session but won't be installed

E: impossible to fix errors, but you kept (hold) broken packages.

EDIT2: This solved my problem. https://askubuntu.com/a/1051125/1711715

EDIT: Sudo apt update && upgrade output:

Hit:1 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:2 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease
Hit:3 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Get:4 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease [100kb]
Hit:5 https://dl.google.com/Linux/chrome/Deb stable InRelease
Hit:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu jammy-security InRelease
Hit:7 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/lutris-team/lutris/Ubuntu jammy InRelease
Fetching 108kb in 1s (85,2 kb/s)
Reading package list... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
2 can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
The following packages will be kept at the current version:
 initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-core
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to removed and 2 not upgraded.
auroravenue
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Just had this same error in a laptop, 7 days after the original poster, and fixed it.

Let me explain in detail, both the analysis and the steps I took. Maybe someone can figure the causes better!

Context and root cause

For context, this is an old laptop I hadn't used it for a few months. I applied all upgrades, and after the reboot I was left in a shell.

Tried startx but it didn't not work, I was getting a white message about something being broken with gnome.

The obvious fix was to just reinstall ubuntu-gnome-desktop:

sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-gnome-desktop

It failed, because a conflict in gnome-shell-common version:

gnome-shell: depends: gnome-shell-common (= 42.5-0ubuntu1) but 42.9-0ubuntu2 is to be installed

This is weird! I tried to install that version, but it did not exist in the repositories:

apt install gnome-shell-common=42.5\*

Fixing the local repos

So I got suspicious of the repositories. I was using the Spanish repositories (ES), so changed those to the standard ones:

  • by opening /etc/apt/sources.list
  • and replacing the domain:
# from this:
deb http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy main restricted
# to this:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy main restricted

After this, I run apt update and apt upgrade. And, surprise! it had many, many packages to update.

Success!

With this new available packages, again I reinstalled ubuntu-gnome-desktop, and this time it worked as expected (no error message on gnome-shell

sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-gnome-desktop

It worked as expected, gnome started, It's fixed, I'm happy!

FYI, I have the gnome-shell-common at the newest version (42.9-0ubuntu2). No idea why it was asking for an old one, I guess because of a deprecated ES repo?

Suspicions

I'm suspicious, but have no proof, that this could be related:

  • I've just updated from the snap store app, showed some errors
  • I had gnome-tweaks and similar packages

Conclusions

    1. This means that the ES locale repo was broken, right? Is it up-to-date?
    1. The original poster (auroravenue) has the system with the BR locale, maybe that repo was also wrong?
David Arcos
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