Stretch to Buster results in strange problems
No sound after upgrade to Buster
Switched from lxde to gnome to use gnome/sound speaker test - Still no sound
Rebooted to old stretch on another hard drive - had sound, output
changed to line out.
Rebooted to Buster. No sound and trapped in gnome. selection of desktops
shows at sign in but cannot be changed from gnome
Rebooted to Stretch on the hard drive used to upgrade to Buster. Output
is line out and sound to external speakers.
Continued to work with Stretch for a week to enjoy sound but found only
python 2 available
Rebooted to Buster (only gnome desktop can be selected and no sound) in
order to work with python 3.7. Found the files created in my home
directory while working with Stretch are not there when working with Buster.
More files are missing. While working with Stretch I exchanged several
debianuser emails and downloaded and installed an new book on Calibre.
None of this was present when I switched back to Buster.
Sound! One of the debianuser emails I read while working with Stretch
said the no sound problem on Buster was caused by timidity. I purged
timidity and sure enough line out was back and sound works fine.
Still no solution to trapped in gnome but I did a full backup of
/home/tom/ before the upgrade so next I will rsync it to /home/tom/ on
Buster. I have no idea of how to recover the files I wrote during the
week I worked on Stretch. Maybe go back to Stretch, rsync the files to
another computer and then from there rsync them to Buster.
If anyone knows how I can escape from gnome please let me know.
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