HELP: My System Died After an Update/Upgrade

[JD Austin]

Try installing a different window manager such as cinnamon or kde and
choose that instead when you login.

-- JD Austin
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jd at twingeckos.com



On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Mark Phillips
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>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>)
> 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
>
> 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) 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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