HELP: My System Died After an Update/Upgrade
Brian Cluff
brian at snaptek.com
Sun Jun 30 21:36:34 MST 2013
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>
>
> 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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