On Vi, 10 dec 21, 18:24:19, Thanos Katsiolis wrote: > Thank you both for your replies. > > I managed to complete the installation (run also apt full-upgrade > successfully) and then reboot. > After the update the system boots only with the ttys (1-6) and not with a > graphical interface, and by that I mean that I tried to change to the > graphical interface with Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8. > I verified that Debian 10.10 was installed , ran cleaning commands, reboot > again but again I can only access ttys and not the Graphical Interface. > > Is there any possibility that a graphical environment has not been > installed at all?
Yes, it's possible, e.g. in case there was a conflict and APT decided it
should remove remove your Desktop Environment to resolve the conflict.
This should be visible in the logs or just try running:
dpkg -l '*dm'
> All the update procedures that I have seen, do not have extra steps. What
> am I missing?
Alternatively (and more likely) Xorg is failing to start for some
reason.
Anything interesting in the output of `journalctl -ab`,
/var/log/Xorg.0.log or ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log?
Kind regards,
Andrei
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