[ale] Debian Jessie upgrade startx dead

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Sat Apr 30 22:13:13 EDT 2016


Already did that, didn't work.

On 2016-04-30 18:20, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> 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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