On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:01:08PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 08:13:34AM +0100, J. Fahrner wrote: > > Am 2018-01-21 22:19, schrieb Hendrik Boom: > > >/etc/apt/sources.list shows mine is based on jessie. That's pretty > > >definitive. > > > > > >I think I'll cross over to Devuan first, then upgrade to ascii. > > OK. Did that. everything seemed fine after three dist-upgrades. > > Then used aptitude to install golang. When I started aptitude > interactively, it found a few other packages that needed fixing. I let > it do that before installing golang. Althout it had complained about > only a fe packages, it ended up installing a very large number of > packages -- hundreds. I consider this suspicious. > > THen I had it install golang and its dependencies. It seemed to e doing > that, but then the system crashed -- went to a state with a blank screen > and a blinking cursor in the top left corner, completely unrsponsive to > keyboard and mouse. > > Evidently everything wasn't OK yet. > > Rebooting didn't help; it rebooted I got the long list of messages as > init put the system up, then back to the blank screen and a blinking > cursor.
Ah. I should have figured it out already. It booted, tried to start X, and failed. Control-alt-F1 and I get a text-only login prompt. So why would using aptitude to install golang sabotage X? It did go to dead X while installing golang, before I rebooted. Might it have rebooted while I wasn't looking? Why would aptitude do that? Or did it sabotage the desktop or window manager? The so-called GOSFUI? (is that what Steve Litt called it?) It seems I have a working, but incomplete system. -- hendrik > > > Any ideas? Tomorrow I'll start fro scratch again unless someon has a > better idea. I could put the microsd card in an adaptor in my laptop's > USB slot and see if I can see anything in the file system. > > I could, of course, sk it to install a stretch version of Rapbian > straightway and ignore the switch to Devuan. > > -- hendrik > > > > > Fine. And don't forget to change > > > > deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie rpi > > > > into > > > > deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ stretch rpi > > Yes, I did that. > > > > > You can see the available dists here: > > > > http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/dists/ > > > > Jochen > > _______________________________________________ > > Dng mailing list > > Dng@lists.dyne.org > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
