On Monday 08 June 2015 17:36:36 Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian Folks, > > I changed from jessie to stretch in my sources.list file and then did > aptitude safe-upgrade. > > It worked OK or so it seemed. > > But then I decided to try aptitude dist-upgrade afterward. > > That wanted to rehash the xorg-server video package and after doing it when > I boot up the window manager does not start up. > > I can boot in recovery mode but if I do that as root if I run aptitude it > doesn't download packages - I think there is no internet connection being > made. > > What sort of output that I could get in recovery mode (eg var log files > dmesg output) would be useful to help fix this?
Wait a few days (or however long it takes) for Stretch to sort it out, then full-upgrade again?? I gather it doesn't usually take long! Meanwhile work at the CLI? I like Testing to settle down a bit before I change over. ;-) But throughout its life until it becomes Stable, it *is* Testing. This sort of thing happens. Lisi > > Thanks for the help. > > Regards > > Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201506081747.29529.lisi.re...@gmail.com