Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

From	brian <brian@meadows.pair.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie
Date	2016-10-02 19:00 +0200
Message-ID	<snShj-11m-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References	<snROh-R8-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw

On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 17:59:48 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I upgraded my Debian server about a week ago from Wheezy to Jessie.
>After that the GUI stopped, I see only  the grey screen with the sad
>computer telling me " Oh no, Something is Wrong" and the only option is
>to log out.
>
>I'm using Gnome as my desktop. I installed the package again with:
>apt-get install task-gnome-desktop
>I did not get any error message, but that didn't cure my problem.
>
>Afterwards I tried: "dpkg --configure -a". Again, I didn't get any
>error message but  that didn't cure my problem.
>
>I rebooted the system several times but with no avail.
>
>Which info should I provide and/or where should I check my system for
>errors? The text based login via ssh (I use Putty from Win 8.1)
>functions without problems.
>

Sorry, Hans, not a solution, just a "Me too", My wife has an eMachines
PC bought from Wal-Mart, and each time I have tried to move her from
Wheezy to Jessie, the upgrade reports no errors, you can log in and
the GUI is there, but the moment you touch the mouse the screen breaks
up into a whole series of short horizontal lines, and there is no way
out of it but to reboot. This is totally reproducible, and I've seen
exactly the same effect with a recent Linux Mint (not LMDE, the
Ubuntu-based version) live disk. 

If anyone had this problem and managed to sort it, I'd be very
grateful for the solution, because at the moment my wife's PC is stuck
at Wheezy, and cannot be upgraded. 

Thanks, 

Brian.

Thread

Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-02 18:30 +0200
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2016-10-02 19:00 +0200
    Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie err404@free.fr - 2016-10-02 19:40 +0200
      Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2016-10-02 20:30 +0200
        Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-03 07:00 +0200
          Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2016-10-03 09:50 +0200
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-10-02 20:40 +0200
    Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-02 21:10 +0200
      Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-03 19:40 +0200
    Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-03 19:10 +0200
      Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-10-03 19:30 +0200
        Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-03 21:10 +0200
          Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-10-03 21:50 +0200
            Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-04 20:50 +0200
              Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-04 22:00 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-05 12:00 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-05 20:10 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-05 21:00 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-06 20:00 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-06 20:50 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-07 19:30 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-07 22:30 +0200
                Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to  Jessie] Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-08 14:00 +0200
                Re: Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to  Jessie] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-09 23:50 +0200
                Re: Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to  Jessie] Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-10-17 19:20 +0200
            Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-10-05 18:20 +0200
              Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-10-06 20:00 +0200
                Re:: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-06 21:00 +0200
                Re: : Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-10-06 21:40 +0200
            Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-06 20:00 +0200
      Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-03 19:50 +0200
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-02 20:50 +0200
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2016-10-02 22:10 +0200
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-10-02 23:50 +0200
    Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-11-06 00:00 +0100
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-10-03 02:10 +0200
    Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2016-10-05 17:20 +0200
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-07 03:30 +0200

csiph-web