First check if your kernel got updated - it may not have picked up/remained in sync with the options from your previous kernel. If so, try booting the old one. Life still upside-down? that was the easy path..

Your update left you with a video driver that can no longer find a GPU - Gnome3 requires accelerated video, the fallback looks like Gnome2. The video and mixed-up keyboard(s) leads me to think you are going to have to clean out your borked*  /etc/X11/xorg.conf & friends. I would put what you have aside and try a clean regeneration of your X - once you get it restored to the way you like, back it up  ;)
*your upgrade may have saved your original xorg.conf - look for that too

unless debian does this differently too, Hans?

Going forward, keep in mind that tools like apt & yum support typical configurations - once you setup a complex configuration, you also need to be able to recreate it after upgrades (which tend to restore the conventional)

good luck


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
I am running Debian testing on my laptop. I use my laptop in two configurations - stand alone and with an external monitor and bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Everything was working in that I could switch back and forth as needed.

I then had a need to write a bunch of documents/emails in German so I tried to add a German keyboard mapping and dictionary to the system. I was successful and could switch back and forth between German and English in LibreOffice and Gmail using the external keyboard.

I then ran an aptitude update and then an upgrade and the world collapsed.
 
* I no longer have gnome 3, but a fall back version of gnome 2. 

* I can type correctly with the external keyboard, but the keyboard on the laptop is all messed up. The keys do not type what is printed on the keys. 

* I don't have a German keyboard mapping any more. 

I googled for some solutions, ran some dpkg-reconfigures but I just cannot get the laptop keyboard to work properly, nor get back to gnome 3. When I run an aptitude update and then upgrade now, I get this

# aptitude upgrade
Resolving dependencies...                
open: 8922; closed: 14679; defer: 68; conflict: 194  

and the conflicts are never resolved - the numbers just keep changing and the cpus are pegged at 100%. 

apt-get upgrade shows many packages to be upgraded, and does not report any dependency issues.

Should I try apt-get upgrade to see if it fixes the problem? How do I go about fixing the keyboard and gnome 3 issues?

Thanks,

Mark
                                   



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