<p dir="ltr">Brian,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I reinstalled gnome and now I can log in and do not get the "Oh no, something is wrong..." error. I still get the "missing system tray" error.</p>
<p dir="ltr">However, all I get when I log in is the background image....no menu bar on the left, no virtual screens on the right, no info bar at the top...just the background image. I also ran update and upgrade, and still no change. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I also tried using 'tasksel install gnome-desktop --new-install' in an attempt to get back to how it was originally installed, but that did nothing to help the situation.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Any suggestions to get my original desktop back?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Mark</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 30, 2013 9:36 PM, "Brian Cluff" <<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com">brian@snaptek.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
It's been a long time since I've run straight debian as one of my primary desktops, but there is probably a package that is equivalent to the ones I mentioned that could fix you right up.<br>
<br>
Something like gnome-desktop-environment, but I'm not sure that's the one.... plus I run KDE :)<br>
<br>
Brian Cluff<br>
<br>
On 06/30/2013 09:07 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Brian,<br>
<br>
Thanks for the suggestions.<br>
<br>
I ran 'aptitude upgrade', not dist-upgrade. However, I did try 'aptitude<br>
upgrade' at the command line, and the result showed that the update<br>
completed without errors.<br>
<br>
I am running Ubuntu, but Debian testing.<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
<br>
On Jun 30, 2013 8:53 PM, "Brian Cluff" <<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a><br>
<mailto:<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
<br>
Do CTRL+ALT+F1 and get to a terminal, login, and then run your<br>
upgrade again (sudo aptitude dist-upgrade). I'm betting that it<br>
didn't completely cleanly.<br>
<br>
Also make sure that the ubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-standard packages<br>
are installed, you might have done some uninstalls that pulled these<br>
packages off which wouldn't have caused any problems until you<br>
upgraded and they needed to pull in extra packages that would break<br>
you system.<br>
<br>
Brian Cluff<br>
<br>
On 06/30/2013 06:21 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:<br>
<br>
I run Debian testing on my laptop. It was OK until I ran<br>
aptitude update<br>
and then aptitude upgrade, and then a reboot.<br>
<br>
Now, the system boots into the normal gnome login screen. I<br>
login as my<br>
normal user, the background comes up, the disk light flashes as<br>
expected, then I get an error message on a black screen -<br>
<br>
Oh no, something has gone wrong!<br>
A problem has occurred, and the system cannot recover. All<br>
extensions<br>
have been disabled as a precaution.<br>
<br>
Then, a dialog pops up with an OK button, which says:<br>
No system tray detected on this system.<br>
Unable to start, exiting.<br>
<br>
I click OK, the system reverts back to the login screen.<br>
<br>
I can access a shell prompt with ctrl-f2. Dmesg does not show any<br>
errors. I tried adding a new user, rebooting, and logging in as<br>
the new<br>
user, but I get the same error messages.<br>
<br>
Googling the errors "debian missing system tray" did not yield<br>
much in<br>
the way of help. Googling "Oh no..." led me to looking at the errors<br>
from startx. I ran startx from the command line and wrote the<br>
errors to<br>
a file. I got the following:<br>
<br>
X.Org X Server 1.12.4<br>
Release Date: 2012-08-27<br>
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0<br>
Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian<br>
Current Operating System: Linux orca 3.1.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 10<br>
05:01:58 UTC 2012 x86_64<br>
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.1._<u></u>_0-1-amd64<br>
root=UUID=7870a6c9-642b-4b15-_<u></u>_b0cd-3f01d27<br>
d450e ro quiet<br>
Build Date: 17 April 2013 10:22:47AM<br>
xorg-server 2:1.12.4-6 (Julien Cristau <<a href="mailto:jcristau@debian.org" target="_blank">jcristau@debian.org</a><br>
<mailto:<a href="mailto:jcristau@debian.org" target="_blank">jcristau@debian.org</a>><br>
<mailto:<a href="mailto:jcristau@debian.org" target="_blank">jcristau@debian.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jcristau@debian.org" target="_blank">jcristau@debian.org</a>>>><u></u>)<br>
Current version of pixman: 0.26.0<br>
Before reporting problems, check <a href="http://wiki.x.org" target="_blank">http://wiki.x.org</a><br>
to make sure that you have the latest version.<br>
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,<br>
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,<br>
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)<br>
unknown.<br>
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.1.log", Time: Sun Jun 30 17:34:20 2013<br>
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"<br>
libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod.c:505<br>
kmod_lookup_alias_from___<u></u>builtin_file: could not open builtin f<br>
ile '/lib/modules/3.1.0-1-amd64/__<u></u>modules.builtin.bin'<br>
FATAL: Module fbcon not found.<br>
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:<br>
> Warning: Compat map for group 2 redefined<br>
> Using new definition<br>
> Warning: Compat map for group 3 redefined<br>
> Using new definition<br>
> Warning: Compat map for group 4 redefined<br>
> Using new definition<br>
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server<br>
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:<br>
> Warning: Compat map for group 2 redefined<br>
> Using new definition<br>
> Warning: Compat map for group 3 redefined<br>
> Using new definition<br>
> Warning: Compat map for group 4 redefined<br>
> Using new definition<br>
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server<br>
xinit: connection to X server lost<br>
<br>
waiting for X server to shut down Server terminated successfully<br>
(0).<br>
Closing log file.<br>
<br>
It seems the fbcon error is a red herring....fbcon was moved<br>
into the<br>
kernel and the error message has not been fixed:<br>
<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-__bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588560" target="_blank">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-__<u></u>bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588560</a><br>
<<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588560" target="_blank">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-<u></u>bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588560</a>><br>
<br>
My /lib/modules/3.1.0-1-amd64/__<u></u>modules.builtin.bin has zero length.<br>
According to this bug report<br>
(<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-__bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668568" target="_blank">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-__<u></u>bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668568</a><br>
<<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668568" target="_blank">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-<u></u>bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668568</a>>) the<br>
modules.builtin.bin is not used until 3.2.1-1, so I am lost at<br>
this point.<br>
<br>
Any suggestions on how to diagnose/fix this problem would be greatly<br>
appreciated!<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
<br>
<br>
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