Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

From	Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie
Date	2016-10-03 19:30 +0200
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On 10/03/2016 06:50 PM, Hans Kraus wrote:
> With "gui stopped" I mean the following:
> After the boot process, instead of the graphical login screen where
> one can select the user, enter the password and do some selections,
> the following screen appears:
> 
> A pic of a sad computer with the text (the first line is in bold):
> ===================================================================
>        Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
> A problem occurred and the system can't recover.
>         Please log out and try again.
>                -----------
>                | Log Out |
>                -----------
> ===================================================================
> I get the same screen when I choose another shell (via Ctrl-Alt-F2),
> log in as root and enter: startx.

Ok, this appears to be a GNOME-specific error message.

Could you restart the computer, try to log in, wait until that
message pops up, don't close the message, switch to another console
(Ctrl+Alt+F2) and run the following command as root?

journalctl -b1 -n40 _UID=1000

(Replace 1000 with your user id, you can look it via running id in
the console as your normal user; 1000 is the default for the first
user created by the Debian installer.)

See if there's anything in that output that might be relevant here.

> The /etc/apt/sources.list:
> ===================================================================
> root@robbe:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> # deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
> 
> # deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports wheezy-backports non-free
> deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free
> 
> deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
> 
> deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
> 
> # wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
> deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
> 
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free
> ===================================================================

Side note: you have jessie-backports in there twice (first and last
uncommented line), but that's completely harmless. Otherwise, looks
fine.

Could you run

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

and see if it still wants to upgrade additional software?

Also, what kernel version are you running? (Find that out via the
command "uname -a".)

Regards,
Christian

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

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