On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 01:39:46PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > At the end of a package update and upgrade today of Stretch the > following messages appeared. > > [...] It looks like your perl installation is broken
> Can anyone tell me what the foregoing means? If it is of any help, I > do have two problems with Stretch. First I cannot close the computer > using shutdown -- I have to close it by holding down the start button > for four seconds. How do you "shutdown"? > > Second, after opening my user in the DE, the DE remains on the monitor > for only a few seconds. The monitor then reverts to the tty1 command > line and asks me to log in. I can do so either as root or my user but > am restricted to use of the usual commands. > I open my users with a can opener :) SCNR Your display manager depends on perl. So most likely it is related to your perl issues I do not even know what "usual commands" means. Are you sure you are using the right version of debian? Is there a particular reason why you need to run strtch? -H -- Henning Follmann | hfollm...@itcfollmann.com