Re: Debian Stretch : X server won't start after update

[davidson@freevolt.org]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 davidson wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 Brian wrote:
> > On Fri 14 Apr 2023 at 18:48:06 +0200, Bernard wrote:
> >
> > > Hi to Everyone,
> > >
> > > I am writing from my laptop on Ubuntu, but the problem I have is
> > > with my Desktop running Debian Stretch.
> > > Having unfortunately Okayed a proposal for an update (which I
> > > rarely do…), upon restarting the system fails to launch X server.
> >
> > I thought stretch is unsupported by Debian. Where did the update
> > come from?
>
> I speculate that the OP's sources.list identifies the desired
> distribution by a temporally relative suite name --say, "stable" or
> "oldstable"

A one-word oxymoron: "stable"

These context-dependent suite "names" ought to be called pronouns or
something.

The so-called "codenames" are the actual names proper.

> -- instead of the temporally absolute release codename "stretch".

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