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Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie



On Mon 03 Oct 2016 at 18:50:59 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote:

> Hi, thank's for your sppedy reaction.
> 
> 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.

Stop gdm3:

  systemctl stop gdm.service

What happens with these two commands?

  xinit -- vt$XDG_VTNR
(Click in the xterm and type ctrl-D to exit).

and

  xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session -- vt$XDG_VTNR


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