HELP: My System Died After an Update/Upgrade
Mark Phillips
mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
Mon Jul 1 08:03:02 MST 2013
Brian,
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.
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.
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.
Any suggestions to get my original desktop back?
Thanks,
Mark
On Jun 30, 2013 9:36 PM, "Brian Cluff" <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Something like gnome-desktop-environment, but I'm not sure that's the
> one.... plus I run KDE :)
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 06/30/2013 09:07 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>> Brian,
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestions.
>>
>> I ran 'aptitude upgrade', not dist-upgrade. However, I did try 'aptitude
>> upgrade' at the command line, and the result showed that the update
>> completed without errors.
>>
>> I am running Ubuntu, but Debian testing.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Jun 30, 2013 8:53 PM, "Brian Cluff" <brian at snaptek.com
>> <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>> wrote:
>>
>> 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 at debian.org
>> <mailto:jcristau at debian.org>
>> <mailto:jcristau at debian.org <mailto:jcristau at 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>
>> <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>
>> <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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