HELP: My System Died After an Update/Upgrade

[Brian Cluff]

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>>)
> 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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