upgrading Jessie *SOLVED*
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 4:48 am
This is not something specific to Space Oddity. This has happened with every stable install of Greatest Hits, Break, and actually on a Q4OS install when I have 'apt upgrade'd Jessie. I think it must have something to do with a BIOS setting on this computer, because the linux stable world would be in an uproar, lols.
Ok! So I upgrade and keep on working. Everything is looking good, then I turn the box off and go to sleep.
The next break I fire it up and either login and startx or I get to my login screen (lightdm, slim, and even gdm3) and at that point I am faced with a screen full of nothing. Well, usually that Debian blue screen without the logo. I mess around with it for a while until I get either bored with it or my head feels like exploding, then I give it up and lose all the data I burned for all those programs, etc, and burn even more data building a fresh install.
Today I decided to 'sudo apt update'- just to see what might really need to be updated and try to update just what I needed to (I have never done this because, tbh, I don't know how, lols), only to find that I couldn't update because I was missing a program called 'apt-transport-https' (something like that), So I installed it and then I ran 'update'.
There are about 50 packages out there that need to be updated, but I was sure one of those packages was the fiend involved in my system fails.
I tried a few different ways to just upgrade what I thought I needed, but it insisted that I upgrade them all, so I gave up.
I played around a bit, powered off, and went to work.
I got to my next break stop, and powered back on, selected Space Oddity, and everything looked good until I was faced once more with a blank login screen.
Having had enough of this bullshit, and not wanting to give up this system because I really love what I got going on there I rebooted and selected the recovery (rescue) option, got the command line, and started thinking. I knew the only thing that I had added between boots was the 'apt-transport-https' (or whatever), so I 'dpkg-reconfigure apt' and- just to be on the safe side because the blankness started with the login- 'dpkg-reconfigure gdm3' and crossed my fingers, ten Hail Marys and ten Our Fathers, and rebooted.
Success.
I am still scared to upgrade because the thought of remembering and dpkg-reconfiguring 49 packages just to fix a blank screen seems a bit crazy.
So I am hoping one of you guys with a Thinkpad might know of a setting in my BIOS that might set things right. I also have that problem of disappearing installs with a fresh install. Just coincidence?
I really hate to bother you guys with this stuff. :( That's why I've just been reinstalling and not upgrading. I wish I could remember what upgraded with that apt-transport-https thingy, but I have the short-term memory of a long-term pot smoker, lols. I think it might have been a 'libc(or 6)-bin.
If you can help, thanks! If you just want to spank me, I guess I could go for a little of the old s&m tonight, lols.
Just don't tell me I'm crazy. I couldn't have hallucinated through a month or so and a few dozen installs, lols! Or could I......
*Edit* Also: Admins feel free to dump this if it is in the wrong place or just plain
stupid sounding, lols. Just shoot me a pm telling me what you think it
might be, or just tell me to stfu and gtfo, lols. This isn't specific
to bbq- that has been proven- so really not your problem and I already
feel more than a little silly posting this. My feelings won't be hurt!
:)
Ok! So I upgrade and keep on working. Everything is looking good, then I turn the box off and go to sleep.
The next break I fire it up and either login and startx or I get to my login screen (lightdm, slim, and even gdm3) and at that point I am faced with a screen full of nothing. Well, usually that Debian blue screen without the logo. I mess around with it for a while until I get either bored with it or my head feels like exploding, then I give it up and lose all the data I burned for all those programs, etc, and burn even more data building a fresh install.
Today I decided to 'sudo apt update'- just to see what might really need to be updated and try to update just what I needed to (I have never done this because, tbh, I don't know how, lols), only to find that I couldn't update because I was missing a program called 'apt-transport-https' (something like that), So I installed it and then I ran 'update'.
There are about 50 packages out there that need to be updated, but I was sure one of those packages was the fiend involved in my system fails.
I tried a few different ways to just upgrade what I thought I needed, but it insisted that I upgrade them all, so I gave up.
I played around a bit, powered off, and went to work.
I got to my next break stop, and powered back on, selected Space Oddity, and everything looked good until I was faced once more with a blank login screen.
Having had enough of this bullshit, and not wanting to give up this system because I really love what I got going on there I rebooted and selected the recovery (rescue) option, got the command line, and started thinking. I knew the only thing that I had added between boots was the 'apt-transport-https' (or whatever), so I 'dpkg-reconfigure apt' and- just to be on the safe side because the blankness started with the login- 'dpkg-reconfigure gdm3' and crossed my fingers, ten Hail Marys and ten Our Fathers, and rebooted.
Success.
I am still scared to upgrade because the thought of remembering and dpkg-reconfiguring 49 packages just to fix a blank screen seems a bit crazy.
So I am hoping one of you guys with a Thinkpad might know of a setting in my BIOS that might set things right. I also have that problem of disappearing installs with a fresh install. Just coincidence?
I really hate to bother you guys with this stuff. :( That's why I've just been reinstalling and not upgrading. I wish I could remember what upgraded with that apt-transport-https thingy, but I have the short-term memory of a long-term pot smoker, lols. I think it might have been a 'libc(or 6)-bin.
If you can help, thanks! If you just want to spank me, I guess I could go for a little of the old s&m tonight, lols.
Just don't tell me I'm crazy. I couldn't have hallucinated through a month or so and a few dozen installs, lols! Or could I......
*Edit* Also: Admins feel free to dump this if it is in the wrong place or just plain
stupid sounding, lols. Just shoot me a pm telling me what you think it
might be, or just tell me to stfu and gtfo, lols. This isn't specific
to bbq- that has been proven- so really not your problem and I already
feel more than a little silly posting this. My feelings won't be hurt!
:)