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):
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Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem occurred and the system can't recover.
Please log out and try again.
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| Log Out |
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I get the same screen when I choose another shell (via Ctrl-Alt-F2),
log in as root and enter: startx.
The /etc/apt/sources.list:
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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 =================================================================== The parts "main contrib non-free" are on the same line; Thundebird insists on line breaks ... Kind regards, Hans Am 02.10.2016 um 20:31 schrieb Christian Seiler:
On 10/02/2016 05:59 PM, Hans Kraus wrote:I upgraded my Debian server about a week ago from Wheezy to Jessie. After that the GUI stopped,This is a bit vague, so a better explanation would be good. What exactly do you mean "gui stopped"? Did that happen during the update? Or at boot? Does the login screen show up? Does this message show up after login?I see only the grey screen with the sad computer telling me " Oh no, Something is Wrong" and the only option is to log out.Could you transcribe the precise error message?I installed the package again with: apt-get install task-gnome-desktop I did not get any error message, but that didn't cure my problem. Afterwards I tried: "dpkg --configure -a". Again, I didn't get any error message but that didn't cure my problem.That means your packages are in a state that dpkg assumes to be consistent. However, since you upgraded recently, and apparently still have access to your shell, could you tell us what the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list is? Regards, Christian