On 2023-04-14 at 15:53, davidson wrote: > On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 Brian wrote: > >> On Fri 14 Apr 2023 at 18:48:06 +0200, Bernard wrote: >> >>> Hi to Everyone, >>> >>> 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? > > I speculate that the OP's sources.list identifies the desired > distribution by a temporally relative suite name --say, "stable" or > "oldstable"-- instead of the temporally absolute release codename > "stretch".
Alternately, perhaps the OP "okay[s] a proposal for an update" *so* rarely that there was actually still one pending from when stretch was still getting support. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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