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  Re: Can't log in after Stretch to Buster upgrade cgibbs@surfnaked.ca - 2020-09-03 07:40 +0200
    Re: Can't log in after Stretch to Buster upgrade Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2020-09-04 02:40 +0200

#226657 — Re: Can't log in after Stretch to Buster upgrade

On Wed Sep  2 21:32:55 2020 Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:

 > On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 11:13:30AM -0700, cgibbs@surfnaked.ca 
wrote:
 >
 >> The Buster upgrade seemed to work OK.  I re-booted and got to my
 >> xfce login screen.  But when I entered my user ID and password,
 >> the screen blanked for a second or so, then came back to a blank
 >> login screen.
 >
 > Use ctrl-alt-F3 to switch to a virtual console and attempt to log 
in
 > there, then examine your logs to see if there are any hints as to
 > anything that has failed to start?
 >
 > I am not an xfce user so hopefully one of them will be along 
shortly
 > to tell you which log files to look in for likely answers, but you
 > could start with /var/log/syslog and /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

Thanks - I forgot the ctl-alt-Fn trick.  That makes it much easier to 
look
at the logs than booting a CD into rescue mode.  There's also some
sort of problem with openssh-server which I can't resolve by removing
and re-installing, but I'd just as soon leave that one until I get 
xfce logins
working.  Yes, my makefiles can still compile the programs I'm working 
on,
but I can't bring up VirtualBox to build the Windows versions.

I'll continue puttering for a few more days - maybe others will have
some ideas.  But if I don't get it working by next week, I'm going to
wipe my root partition and install Buster from scratch.  The time I'll
spend re-installing the packages I use will have been well exceeded
by the time I've been spending trying to fix my current broken system.

--
cgibbs@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)

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cgibbs@surfnaked.ca wrote:

> I'll continue puttering for a few more days - maybe others will have
> some ideas.

So were there any errors or warnings in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

I'd also check for error messages in $HOME/.xsession-errors.

regards,
mike

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