Re: GUI fails after upgrade from wheezy to jessie
Am Donnerstag, 4. September 2014, 10:57:47 schrieb Hans Heider:
> Hi all,
>
> I just upgraded from Debian stable (wheezy) to testing (jessie).
> Unfortunately, I encountered three different problems which are (in
> decending severity): 1. The GUI became totally unusable. After booting X is
> started up but in 99% of all tries it just leaves me with a blank screen.
> Only once the gdm3 interface came up very slowly and I was able to log in,
> however the hole system froze after about one minute and I had to perform a
> hard reset. With removing the "quiet" from kernel command line I just see
> that X is started (displays "OK") - no further errors reported. I managed
> to obtain the kernal fault trace attached to this email. This problem
> occurs every time and I have no clue how to fix it. Tried to add
> "nomodeset" to the kernel command line but no result. Additionally, the
> kernel fault seems to occur multiple times in a row. I can force the kernel
> fault to occure with # killall Xorg gdm3 gdm-session-manager which seems
> to restart the whole gui (however I do not know how restarts this
> services). After this command I am automatically taken to terminal 7 with a
> running "GUI" / blank screen. 2. During boot the system hangs for quite
> some time with displaying the message "A start job is running for
> dev-disk-by\x2duuid-29d73912\x2d52ca\x2d4026\x2d8a14\x2d72c08e242b0b.device
> ". I found this https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=5538.0 and the
> system continues to boot, but it is still something I would like to fix.
> Any ideas? 3. Do to Bug #758787
> (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758787) my apt became
> useless. Does anybody know of a workaround?
> My system is a laptop with Intel Atom processor and an onboard Intel
> Graphics chip. Kernel version is 3.14-2-686-pae.
> Dmesg also just gives me the report found in attachment. I could not find
> any helpful information in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/Xorg.1.log
> neither in /var/log/syslog. Google gives no solution either...
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Yours,
>
> Hans
>
Hi Hans,
I am running Jessie on an netbook EEEPC 1005HAG, which is an atom processor
and an Intel 945 graphics chip. It is running very well.
So let me try to help.
First, check out, that during upgrade no needed packages were uninstalled.
This mostly when using aptitude. For upgrade I still prefer apt-get dist-
upgrade. Later you can finetune with aptitude.
Second, do not use any vga= option in grub. For this hardware, I got best
results in letting the kernel decide, which resolution to use. Otherwise you
might get in trouble with X.
Third, just for trying, install some other window manager, I suggest LXDE. It
is fast and stable.
Fourth, for testing purposes, remove /etc/init.d/gdm and /etc/init.d/kdm
somewhere else. Doing so, X is not started automatically. But you can start X
with the commad startx in the commandline as root. So you can see, if errors
appear, and what really happens. If everything is running fine later, you can
just rem,ove the files back.
Fifth, again, just for testing purposes, you can install grub-legacy. On this
older system I am quite happy with it. However, some people will now say, it
does not have any effects on X - and they may be right.
I hope, this will help a little, to find the reason for the problem.
Good luck!
Hans
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