Re: black screen in sid

[David]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 20:02, Jeremy Hendricks  
wrote:
In my experience, it’s of unheard of for Sid to break from time to 
time. I’d imagine updating in a day or a few might fix it.


On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 8:00 PM Michael Thompson 
mailto:kneedragon1...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Dear Debian ~

Please forgive my neglecting to use the correct format for a bug 
report, but ~ let me explain.
I am a 60 year old home Linux tinkerer, a Linux geek. I run Mint + 
Mate as my host and virtualbox, with a dozen guests. One guest is 
Debian sid.
I just ran sudo apt update; sudo apt full-upgrade and got a black 
screen.
I tried booting into fallback / recovery, and I got told the 
X-server had not started.

Tried the old kernel, same deal.
Small frustration ~ re-install.
Chose the aarnet.edu.au  mirror (I am in 
Brisbane) and booted, login as root, adduser mike sudo.
Edit sources. Change the two lines that mention bullseye to read sid 
- delete everything else.

Reboot.
Black screen.
Try the fallback - black screen.
Try the recovery, ask for startx - same msg.
I THINK your problem lays with the latest revision of the Xserver.
If you would like a screenshot of the output in the tty when X 
wouldn't start, I have a screenshot I can send you. Reply to this 
email.

I hope you find this helpful. Mike
kneedragon1...@gmail.com 


I run SID as standard.
I usually update daily with aptitude which overlays apt.
I have no problems.
Unless I was doing  an upgrade from testing to Sid, I wouldn't use 
`full-upgrade' on the cli, but `safe-upgrade'.

HTH.
Cheers!

Re: black screen in sid

[Jeremy Hendricks]

In my experience, it’s of unheard of for Sid to break from time to time.
I’d imagine updating in a day or a few might fix it.

On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 8:00 PM Michael Thompson 
wrote:

> Dear Debian ~
>
> Please forgive my neglecting to use the correct format for a bug report,
> but ~ let me explain.
> I am a 60 year old home Linux tinkerer, a Linux geek. I run Mint + Mate as
> my host and virtualbox, with a dozen guests. One guest is Debian sid.
> I just ran sudo apt update; sudo apt full-upgrade and got a black screen.
> I tried booting into fallback / recovery, and I got told the X-server had
> not started.
> Tried the old kernel, same deal.
> Small frustration ~ re-install.
> Chose the aarnet.edu.au mirror (I am in Brisbane) and booted, login as
> root, adduser mike sudo.
> Edit sources. Change the two lines that mention bullseye to read sid -
> delete everything else.
> Reboot.
> Black screen.
> Try the fallback - black screen.
> Try the recovery, ask for startx - same msg.
> I THINK your problem lays with the latest revision of the Xserver.
> If you would like a screenshot of the output in the tty when X wouldn't
> start, I have a screenshot I can send you. Reply to this email.
> I hope you find this helpful. Mike
> kneedragon1...@gmail.com
>

black screen in sid

[Michael Thompson]

Dear Debian ~

Please forgive my neglecting to use the correct format for a bug report,
but ~ let me explain.
I am a 60 year old home Linux tinkerer, a Linux geek. I run Mint + Mate as
my host and virtualbox, with a dozen guests. One guest is Debian sid.
I just ran sudo apt update; sudo apt full-upgrade and got a black screen.
I tried booting into fallback / recovery, and I got told the X-server had
not started.
Tried the old kernel, same deal.
Small frustration ~ re-install.
Chose the aarnet.edu.au mirror (I am in Brisbane) and booted, login as
root, adduser mike sudo.
Edit sources. Change the two lines that mention bullseye to read sid -
delete everything else.
Reboot.
Black screen.
Try the fallback - black screen.
Try the recovery, ask for startx - same msg.
I THINK your problem lays with the latest revision of the Xserver.
If you would like a screenshot of the output in the tty when X wouldn't
start, I have a screenshot I can send you. Reply to this email.
I hope you find this helpful. Mike
kneedragon1...@gmail.com