On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 17:59:48 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: >Hi, > >I upgraded my Debian server about a week ago from Wheezy to Jessie. >After that the GUI stopped, I see only the grey screen with the sad >computer telling me " Oh no, Something is Wrong" and the only option is >to log out. > >I'm using Gnome as my desktop. I installed the package again with: >apt-get install task-gnome-desktop >I did not get any error message, but that didn't cure my problem. > >Afterwards I tried: "dpkg --configure -a". Again, I didn't get any >error message but that didn't cure my problem. > >I rebooted the system several times but with no avail. > >Which info should I provide and/or where should I check my system for >errors? The text based login via ssh (I use Putty from Win 8.1) >functions without problems. >
Sorry, Hans, not a solution, just a "Me too", My wife has an eMachines PC bought from Wal-Mart, and each time I have tried to move her from Wheezy to Jessie, the upgrade reports no errors, you can log in and the GUI is there, but the moment you touch the mouse the screen breaks up into a whole series of short horizontal lines, and there is no way out of it but to reboot. This is totally reproducible, and I've seen exactly the same effect with a recent Linux Mint (not LMDE, the Ubuntu-based version) live disk. If anyone had this problem and managed to sort it, I'd be very grateful for the solution, because at the moment my wife's PC is stuck at Wheezy, and cannot be upgraded. Thanks, Brian.
