On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 Brian wrote:
On Fri 14 Apr 2023 at 18:48:06 +0200, Bernard wrote:Hi to Everyone, I am writing from my laptop on Ubuntu, but the problem I have is with my Desktop running Debian Stretch. Having unfortunately Okayed a proposal for an update (which I rarely do…), upon restarting the system fails to launch X server.I thought stretch is unsupported by Debian. Where did the update come from?
I speculate that the OP's sources.list identifies the desired distribution by a temporally relative suite name --say, "stable" or "oldstable"-- instead of the temporally absolute release codename "stretch". -- Hackers are free people. They are like artists. If they are in a good mood, they get up in the morning and begin painting their pictures. -- Vladimir Putin