There is a good chance that you have upgraded your whole system and are now running testing, if that is the case, no more stable for you.
Going back to stable from testing is in fact an endeavor not worth of its time and I'm pretty confident is out of your league.
To determine what's the status of your system post the output of the following commands:
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$ lsb_release -a
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$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
also the content of any file that might be inside /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
And just to be
really thorough:
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$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
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$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
They can all be run as regular user as the $ sign indicates.
Now, if you have indeed upgraded to testing, you can do two things:
- live with testing, roll up your sleeves and start digging through bug reports and manuals' lines
- backup everything and reinstall stable
Option
b is the one I would personally recommend, running anything but stable is clearly not in your chords and although this means being stuck with Gnome 3.4 for quite a long time, it is better for you to stick to what's manageable.
If you choose option
a, you will have to deal with testing from now on. Yes, you'll have the 3.8 version of Gnome and maybe in a not so distant future even the 3.10 version, but you'll also have to deal with all the breakage testing might bring along on a daily basis.
Problems like the one you are experiencing are the bread and butter of development versions, and although this one got you stuck, is really a simple thing to fix once you know which buttons to push.
But when you're running testing/unstable you won't get much hand-holding for issues that you could fix or understand just by reading around a bit, and helping you fix stuff like this won't do you any good in the long run with testing. Much better to help you get back on a stable system.
So, bottom line, post the output of the commands I listed above to see if your stable system can be restored, otherwise consider your options and keep in mind for the future the one thing you can learn from this:
never,
never,
never mix stable with anything but stable (or backports).