Re: Debian Stretch : X server won't start after update

2023-04-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 05:34:36 +0100 (BST) Tim Woodall wrote: > On Fri, 14 Apr 2023, Charles Curley wrote: > > [...] > [...] > [...] > That page is out of date. On the LTS page itself: > > Debian 9 "Stretch" > > i386, amd64, armel, armhf and arm64 > > July 6, 2020 to June

Re: Debian Stretch : X server won't start after update

2023-04-15 Thread Anssi Saari
Charles Curley writes: > On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 19:41:37 +0100 > Brian wrote: > >> I thought stretch is unsupported by Debian. Where did the update come >> from? > > Stretch is oldoldstable, and under LTS support. > https://www.debian.org/releases/ Actually LTS support for Stretch ended in

Re: Debian Stretch : X server won't start after update

2023-04-14 Thread David
On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 at 04:24, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Fri, 14 Apr 2023, Brian wrote: > >>> I thought stretch is unsupported by Debian. Where did the update come > >>> from? > It's been moved to archive.debian.org. Just hasn't been deleted from the > main repo yet but I think that's imminent.

Re: Debian Stretch : X server won't start after update

2023-04-14 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 14 Apr 2023, Charles Curley wrote: On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 19:41:37 +0100 Brian wrote: I thought stretch is unsupported by Debian. Where did the update come from? Stretch is oldoldstable, and under LTS support. https://www.debian.org/releases/ That page is out of date. On the LTS

Re: Debian Stretch : X server won't start after update

2023-04-14 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 14 Apr 2023, Brian wrote: I thought stretch is unsupported by Debian. Where did the update come from? It may or may not be supported, but it's still there AFAICT: [DIR] binary-amd64/ 2021-08-14 07:43 [ ] Packages.gz 2020-07-18 10:409.2M [ ]

Re: Debian Stretch : X server won't start after update

2023-04-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 19:41:37 +0100 Brian wrote: > I thought stretch is unsupported by Debian. Where did the update come > from? Stretch is oldoldstable, and under LTS support. https://www.debian.org/releases/ I would encourage the original poster to consider installing bullseye rather than

Re: Debian Stretch : X server won't start after update

2023-04-14 Thread davidson
On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 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

Re: Debian Stretch : X server won't start after update

2023-04-14 Thread The Wanderer
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

Re: Debian Stretch : X server won't start after update

2023-04-14 Thread davidson
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

Re: Debian Stretch : X server won't start after update

2023-04-14 Thread David Wright
On Fri 14 Apr 2023 at 19:41:37 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Fri 14 Apr 2023 at 18:48:06 +0200, Bernard wrote: > > 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

Re: Debian Stretch : X server won't start after update

2023-04-14 Thread songbird
Bernard wrote: ... > How can I get back to my old system prior to this failed update ? What > else can I do ? > > Thanks in advance for your help in restoring my system take a look at the files in /var/log/apt history should tell you what was updated last and you could try to install a

Debian Stretch : X server won't start after update

2023-04-14 Thread Bernard
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. My /var/log/messages are available at