I though about that too, that the video card somehow could have affected the update somehow regarding DE.
The VGA compatible controller entry of lspci is NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL [Quadro P400] (rev a1) I don't remember anything about firmware during the installation. On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 7:12 PM Andrew M.A. Cater <amaca...@einval.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 06:24:19PM +0200, Thanos Katsiolis wrote: > > Thank you both for your replies. > > > > I managed to complete the installation (run also apt full-upgrade > > successfully) and then reboot. > > After the update the system boots only with the ttys (1-6) and not with a > > graphical interface, and by that I mean that I tried to change to the > > graphical interface with Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8. > > I verified that Debian 10.10 was installed , ran cleaning commands, > reboot > > again but again I can only access ttys and not the Graphical Interface. > > > > Is there any possibility that a graphical environment has not been > > installed at all? > > > > All the update procedures that I have seen, do not have extra steps. What > > am I missing? > > Can you tell us your video hardware? > > Is there any firmware needed somewhere along the line? > > Having safely updated to 10, you could update to 11 now and then > run tasksel to check what's installed. > > DO READ RELEASE NOTES BEFORE UPGRADING [just in case anything changes - > 10 -> 11 has some diffferent stanzas for /etc/apt/sources.list > > All the very best, as ever, > > Andy Cater > >
