On Fri 14 Apr 2023 at 19:41:37 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Fri 14 Apr 2023 at 18:48:06 +0200, Bernard wrote: > > I am writing from my laptop on Ubuntu, but the problem I have is with my > > Desktop running Debian Stretch. > > Having unfortunately Okayed a proposal for an update (which I rarely do…), > > upon restarting the system fails to launch X server. > > I thought stretch is unsupported by Debian. Where did the update come from?
It may or may not be supported, but it's still there AFAICT: [DIR] binary-amd64/ 2021-08-14 07:43 [ ] Packages.gz 2020-07-18 10:40 9.2M [ ] base-files_9.9+deb9u13_amd64.deb 2020-07-12 20:56 66K My own course of action would probably be to carefully read the buster Release Notes and upgrade "by the book". Then repeat with bullseye. All without starting X, which I would leave until bullseye is running. Cheers, David.
