[ale] Debian Jessie upgrade startx dead

DJ-Pfulio djpfulio at jdpfu.com
Sat Apr 30 21:20:30 EDT 2016


Create a new account and try that.  That will rule out userid-specific config
issues.

On 04/30/2016 08:40 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> I just upgraded a laptop from Wheezy to Jessie.  Under Wheezy everything
> was fine, I could log in then run startx to bring up the desktop
> (fluxbox).  Under Jessie I can't get anything to come up, I just get a
> black screen.  Even the virtual terminals are dead (can't Ctrl-Alt-Fn or
> crash out with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace).
> 
> Nothing seems out of the ordinary, I don't see any obvious error
> messages during the startup process.
> 
> I'd love suggestions about other places to look for any other issues.
> Command line is working, video looks normal there.  I don't think any
> configurations changed but I do have a backup of /etc to compare against
> but a quick glance says no changes.


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