17 Dec
2011
17 Dec
'11
2:33 p.m.
On 16/12/11 19:23, Ken Heard wrote:
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As part of upgrading from Debian Lenny to Squeeze, I also upgraded from
KDE-Trinity 3.5.12 (Lenny version) to 3.5.13 (Squeeze version). After
the upgrade finished, I tried to open Konqueror; the result was a hung
machine.
- From as virtual terminal (ctrl-alt-F1) I rebooted the machine. On
reboot the GUI did not appear; the machine opened with the shell bang.
I the logged in as root and ran the command "startx". The result was a
solid blue screen at ctrl-alt-F7; further action was impossible.
I am at a loss as to what to do next. Specifically what should I do to
get the login screen so that I can log in as a user?
Ken Heard
No experience of lenny+TDE>squeeze+TDE myself.
It might help if you say how this upgrade was done. I've written here
before that major upgrades without closing X is asking for trouble.
Maybe some things did not complete leaving mismatches. It would have
been better to upgrade only Debian stuff first, using the recommended
Debian method.
Other possible solutions now (with X closed, i.e.
/etc/init.d/kdm-trinity stop))
Purge all TDE packages (your ~ stuff will remain):
for i in $(dpkg -l|grep ii|grep "trinity"|awk '{print $2}'); do apt-get
purge $i; done
Disable TDE mirrors temporarily
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
Re-enable (current Squeeze) TDE mirrors, apt-get update and install TDE
again (it's all still in your apt-cache)
No guarantees any of that is correct, I'm only a TDE user with some
Debian experience.