Re: HELP: My System Died After an Update/Upgrade

>     Do CTRL+ALT+F1 and get to a terminal, login, and then run your
>     upgrade again (sudo aptitude dist-upgrade).  I'm betting that it
>     didn't completely cleanly.

>     Also make sure that the ubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-standard packages
>     are installed, you might have done some uninstalls that pulled these
>     packages off which wouldn't have caused any problems until you
>     upgraded and they needed to pull in extra packages that would break
>     you system.

>     Brian Cluff

>     On 06/30/2013 06:21 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:

>         I run Debian testing on my laptop. It was OK until I ran
>         aptitude update
>         and then aptitude upgrade, and then a reboot.

>         Now, the system boots into the normal gnome login screen. I
>         login as my
>         normal user, the background comes up, the disk light flashes as
>         expected, then I get an error message on a black screen -

>         Oh no, something has gone wrong!
>         A problem has occurred, and the system cannot recover. All
>         extensions
>         have been disabled as a precaution.

>         Then, a dialog pops up with an OK button, which says:
>         No system tray detected on this system.
>         Unable to start, exiting.

>         I click OK, the system reverts back to the login screen.

>         I can access a shell prompt with ctrl-f2. Dmesg does not show any
>         errors. I tried adding a new user, rebooting, and logging in as
>         the new
>         user, but I get the same error messages.

>         Googling the errors "debian missing system tray" did not yield
>         much in
>         the way of help. Googling "Oh no..." led me to looking at the errors
>         from startx. I ran startx from the command line and wrote the
>         errors to
>         a file. I got the following:

>         X.Org X Server 1.12.4
>         Release Date: 2012-08-27
>         X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
>         Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian
>         Current Operating System: Linux orca 3.1.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 10
>         05:01:58 UTC 2012 x86_64
>         Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.1.__0-1-amd64
>         root=UUID=7870a6c9-642b-4b15-__b0cd-3f01d27
>         d450e ro quiet
>         Build Date: 17 April 2013  10:22:47AM
>         xorg-server 2:1.12.4-6 (Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org
>         <mailto:jcristau@debian.org>
>         <mailto:jcristau@debian.org <mailto:jcristau@debian.org>>>)
>         Current version of pixman: 0.26.0
>                   Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>                   to make sure that you have the latest version.
>         Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>                   (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>                   (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)
>         unknown.
>         (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.1.log", Time: Sun Jun 30 17:34:20 2013
>         (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
>         libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod.c:505
>         kmod_lookup_alias_from___builtin_file: could not open builtin f
>         ile '/lib/modules/3.1.0-1-amd64/__modules.builtin.bin'
>         FATAL: Module fbcon not found.
>         The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
>           > Warning:          Compat map for group 2 redefined
>           >                   Using new definition
>           > Warning:          Compat map for group 3 redefined
>           >                   Using new definition
>           > Warning:          Compat map for group 4 redefined
>           >                   Using new definition
>         Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
>         The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
>           > Warning:          Compat map for group 2 redefined
>           >                   Using new definition
>           > Warning:          Compat map for group 3 redefined
>           >                   Using new definition
>           > Warning:          Compat map for group 4 redefined
>           >                   Using new definition
>         Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
>         xinit: connection to X server lost

>         waiting for X server to shut down Server terminated successfully
>         (0).
>         Closing log file.

>         It seems the fbcon error is a red herring....fbcon was moved
>         into the
>         kernel and the error message has not been fixed:
>         http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-__bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588560
>         <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588560>

>         My /lib/modules/3.1.0-1-amd64/__modules.builtin.bin has zero length.
>         According to this bug report
>         (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-__bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668568
>         <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668568>) the
>         modules.builtin.bin is not used until 3.2.1-1, so I am lost at
>         this point.

>         Any suggestions on how to diagnose/fix this problem would be greatly
>         appreciated!

>         Mark

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