systemctl can not start X, but startx can.

2018-08-28 Thread Chris Capon
Hi. During a recent update to xorg 1:7.7+19 my graphical environment stopped initializing on reboot. sudo systemctl isolate graphical.target fails to initialize the graphics card with these messages: [ 340.372] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:5:0:0. Please [ 34

Re: Authentication required keeps popping up

2013-06-21 Thread Chris Capon
On 2013-06-17 17:51, Bob Proulx wrote: Chris Capon wrote: Since upgrading to Debian Stable (Wheezy), the Gnome desktop has a popup which occurs at least once a day asking for authentication. The exact message is: Authentication is required to update packages This sounds like Bug#708548

Re: Authentication required keeps popping up

2013-06-17 Thread Chris Capon
y to disable it instead? On 2013-06-17 13:28, green wrote: Chris Capon wrote at 2013-06-17 11:45 -0500: Since upgrading to Debian Stable (Wheezy), the Gnome desktop has a popup which occurs at least once a day asking for authentication. The exact message is: Authentication is requir

Authentication required keeps popping up

2013-06-17 Thread Chris Capon
Hi all. Since upgrading to Debian Stable (Wheezy), the Gnome desktop has a popup which occurs at least once a day asking for authentication. The exact message is: Authentication is required to update packages It always pops up twice in a row whether I type in a password or just cancel

Re: ACPID stuck in an endless loop - prevents login

2012-09-15 Thread Chris Capon
On 2012-09-14 13:28, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:48:11 -0400, Chris Capon wrote: On 2012-09-13 13:07, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:54:20 -0400, Chris Capon wrote: After a recent Debian update, I've been unable to log in to my Debian/Linux server using the consol

Re: ACPID stuck in an endless loop - prevents login

2012-09-14 Thread Chris Capon
On 2012-09-13 13:07, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:54:20 -0400, Chris Capon wrote: After a recent Debian update, I've been unable to log in to my Debian/Linux server using the console and GDM3 won't start - X.org crashes part way through the startup. What can be read fro

ACPID stuck in an endless loop - prevents login

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Capon
Hi all. After a recent Debian update, I've been unable to log in to my Debian/Linux server using the console and GDM3 won't start - X.org crashes part way through the startup. I think ACPID may be the cause because in syslog there is an endless repetition of the same messages every few secon

Trouble getting apt-get Default-Release to work

2011-09-29 Thread Chris Capon
This problem occurs on a Debian install predominantly intended to follow the Stable release. Some packages on the system need to be upgraded to Testing. A file has been added to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d called 88ccc $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/88ccc // APT::Default-Release "stable"; // And /e

Synaptic - debconf: TERM not set

2007-09-10 Thread Chris Capon
After a recent upgrade (testing distribution), Synaptic started showing this message: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline for every package or upgrade being installed.

bugzilla: can not log on to default web site

2006-08-22 Thread Chris Capon
This problem relates to a new clean install of Bugzilla. After installing, it is not possible to log on to the default Bugzilla site. I have read the documentation in /usr/share/docs/bugzilla, on the bugzilla web site and in the debian knowledge base but haven't found any solutions. Others have

bugzilla: can not log on to default web site

2006-08-22 Thread Chris Capon
This problem relates to a new clean install of Bugzilla. After installing, it is not possible to log on to the default Bugzilla site. I have read the documentation in /usr/share/docs/bugzilla, on the bugzilla web site and in the debian knowledge base but haven't found any solutions. Others have

Rebuilt kernel and CD-ROM problem.

2001-03-27 Thread Chris Capon
Hi all: A laptop installed with slink and the 2.0.36 kernel was upgraded to potato with no problems. The upgraded system continued to use the original 2.0.36 kernel. Everything worked fine. I decided to upgrade to the 2.2.15 kernel, so I installed the source, ran menuconfig and went through