Re: Bug#1121441: Most graphical utilities start failing seemingly at random

[Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>]

Control: reassign -1 profile-sync-daemon 6.50-1
Control: tags -1 + trixie moreinfo

On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 at 18:11:44 +0300, e829dce wrote:
> It seems like this issue started happening after upgrading to Debian 13.2. I
> couldn't find a consistent way to reproduce it, but once it happens, I can't
> start most graphical utilities, Firefox logs me out of pretty much every
> website, and the system generally becomes unusable until I either log out or
> restart.
> I can kind of start Ptyxis (since I use it as my terminal emulator), but it
> throws this error:
> Failed to start transient scope unit: Unit ptyxis-
> spawn-2120119d-e343-4c78-b079-6ff0b9fcb101.scope not found.

On Mon, 01 Dec 2025 at 17:32:03 +0300, e829dce wrote:
> Turns out the issue was related to `profile-sync-daemon`, AKA `psd`. 
> Removing the package and creating a new Firefox profile fixed it 
> completely - no more failing applications.

Reassigning this to profile-sync-daemon.

    smcv