Hi Tom! On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 09:31:38AM -0400, Tom Demler wrote: > I then attempted to install a desktop starting with xfce (I only > have 1Gb of RAM). Received > several "Not Found" messages for > packages so the install of xfce did not continue. Attempted the same > with LXDE with similar results. Finally I updated package lists and > proceeded with the resulting upgrades. This seemed to install many, > many packages - possibly all that were downloaded in my attempt to > install a desktop. It was taking a very long time particularly > with building the font cache. I left it continue.
This is normal to Debian and not related to sparc64 at all. If your system is up-to-date, APT will have set up a systemd timer job to update your package lists automatically once per day. > This morning the system was at the Sun OpenBoot boot prompt so I attempted > to boot the system. It seemed to be booting normally but the result is a > blank screen and I cannot get a response to anything. What is the best way > to recover from this? Did you try hooking up the machine to the serial console again and check the output there? What kind of framebuffer device do you have? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
