Re: Partition unreadable [was: Re: Debian Stretch broken !]
Hi Tom, Alexei, Kent and Everyone else,
Le 05/04/2020 03:25, Tom Dial a écrit :
From the various postings it seems somewhat clear that the system, as
such, is not broken. The initial message indicates, I think Felix Miata
noted, that there is a problem with gdm starting (probably) gnome. It
also indicates that the boot completed almost normally (or almost
completed normally).
There is no obvious problem with the disks or partitions.
>
By the indications given, both disks are healthy, or considered so by
the Linux kernel.
The message string does not say directly whether you received a login
widget,
"Oh, no ..."
no login widget, the "Oh, no ..." displayed after about 1 minute.
That would
indicate that GDM (or the display manager was in use, maybe lightdm)
worked, but gnome could not start.
I have seen a similar problem with gdm/gnome on occasion, but do not
remember the exact problem or its solution. It appeared to have
something to do with corruption in one of the files under
/home/<user>/.gconf. I think my answer might have been to throw away
that directory and let it rebuild as it liked.
Tom Dial
I just realized that in that Debian Stretch system,
I HAVE NO /home/<user>/.gconf directory !
[ While I have one my laptop using Ubuntu 14.04, also on my old desktop
running Debian Lenny]
but it didn't rebuild itself so far !
What should I do to get it rebuilt ?
Bernard
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