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Bug#778695: wheezy -> jessie: no gdm3 prompt, dependency loops and broken initrd



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On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:04:38 -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote:

> Package: upgrade-reports
> Severity: grave
> 
> This is the third jessie upgrade I perform from jessie. The previous one
> was documented in #774314.
> 
> It seems that the dependency loop problems are still there, and there were so
> many problems with the upgrade that I don't believe it would be right to
> release jessie as such (hence the "grave" severity). I know that I certainly
> can't spend the 6h i did on this workstation on all the workstations in the
> office. :)
> 
> I followed the two-stage upgrade procedure from the install manual. My
> notes are here:
> 
> https://wiki.koumbit.net/JessieUpgrade
> 
> During the `dist-upgrade` step (after the `upgrade`), there was a
> failure i couldn't trace back (because i somehow got out of that ttyrec
> by mistake). After that, I got the following error trying to run
> `dist-upgrade` again:
> 
Do you still have the pre-upgrade dpkg status file?

[...]
> The next problem I found was with gdm3: it was startup, but would only show the
> top toolbar: no user menu or user/password prompt. I worked around the problem
> by installing lightdm. I suspect this may be related to our LDAP setup.
> 
It usually has a "not listed?  click here" bar that lets non-/etc/passwd
users log in, IME.  Was that not available?  Do you have logs from gdm?

Cheers,
Julien

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