On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 01:45:54 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:53:50 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >> Thanks for the advice. I'll ssh in and if the text consoles don't >> reappear after completing the upgrade, I can investigate further at >> leisure. > > Upgrade completed using ssh over a LAN. Unfortunately, I won't have > time to reboot and see if the text consoles reappear until tomorrow. > > -- hendrik
When I got back to the machine just now, it was still running an X session. I was able to close a few windows and log out. But then it was black screen completely -- no text consoles *or* gdm logins available. I did a hard reset to reboot the machine. It recovered my file systems nicely (they're reiser or ext3), and came up, complete with text consoles and gdm login prompt. I logged in through gdm and started Pan to post this message. This is a success. Thanks for all the advice, especially for the caveats about what might go wrong, but, because I knew what to be careful of, it didn't. -- hendrik. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/iuq5qv$3dl$1...@dough.gmane.org
