Re: wheezy to jessie upgrade: gdm system.d failure - Solved
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 05:07:28PM CEST, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info said: The solution was to remove a duplicate entry from fstab. dpkg-reconfigure gdm3 exited with a line about the duplicate entry in fstab. My fstab is a mess of entries because whenever I connected a usb storage device it would be reported as a device such as sr, sr0, sr1, sg0, sdd1, etc. For each I made a new entry in the fstab with a directory name - cdrw, phone, sony, usbmem, sansa, etc. - with appropriate file type. Perhaps there is a better way. At any rate when the duplicate was commented out, the problem with gdm3 was resolved. To solve the duplication, you may use the uuids or labels as the keys in fstab. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150513151435.gn23...@rail.eu.org
Re: wheezy to jessie upgrade: gdm system.d failure - Solved
The solution was to remove a duplicate entry from fstab. dpkg-reconfigure gdm3 exited with a line about the duplicate entry in fstab. My fstab is a mess of entries because whenever I connected a usb storage device it would be reported as a device such as sr, sr0, sr1, sg0, sdd1, etc. For each I made a new entry in the fstab with a directory name - cdrw, phone, sony, usbmem, sansa, etc. - with appropriate file type. Perhaps there is a better way. At any rate when the duplicate was commented out, the problem with gdm3 was resolved. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150513150728.ga24...@tomgeorge.info
Re: wheezy to jessie upgrade: gdm system.d failure
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:10:36PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 11 May 2015 20:52:27 Thomas H. George wrote: I ENCOUNTERED THIS SAME PROBLEM WITH THE INSTILLATION OF JESSIE ON A NEW COMPUTER, POSTED THE DESCRIPTION TO THE DEBIAN USER LIST AND RECEIVE NO HELP. Maybe noone knew the answer. There's no need to shout. Lisi Perhaps not, just a cry of frustration. The earlier responses were all of the type Well, that's what you get for using systemd. Jessie and systemd are working fine on the new computer and I had great hopes for a flawless upgrade on this one. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201505112110.36638.lisi.re...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150511211050.ga2...@tomgeorge.info
Re: wheezy to jessie upgrade: gdm system.d failure
On Monday 11 May 2015 22:10:50 Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:10:36PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 11 May 2015 20:52:27 Thomas H. George wrote: I ENCOUNTERED THIS SAME PROBLEM WITH THE INSTILLATION OF JESSIE ON A NEW COMPUTER, POSTED THE DESCRIPTION TO THE DEBIAN USER LIST AND RECEIVE NO HELP. Maybe noone knew the answer. There's no need to shout. Lisi Perhaps not, just a cry of frustration. The earlier responses were all of the type Well, that's what you get for using systemd. Jessie and systemd are working fine on the new computer and I had great hopes for a flawless upgrade on this one. Yes, those systemd mantras are just stupid and no help at all. I get frsutrated and irritated by them. But I don't know the answer to your problem. It is almost certainly not systemd's fault. ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201505112221.28633.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: wheezy to jessie upgrade: gdm system.d failure
Am 11.05.2015 um 23:10 schrieb Thomas H. George: On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:10:36PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 11 May 2015 20:52:27 Thomas H. George wrote: I ENCOUNTERED THIS SAME PROBLEM WITH THE INSTILLATION OF JESSIE ON A NEW COMPUTER, POSTED THE DESCRIPTION TO THE DEBIAN USER LIST AND RECEIVE NO HELP. Maybe noone knew the answer. There's no need to shout. He did receive help. It was pointed out to him (as can also be seen in the error message he posted) that gdm.service had failed in the ExecStartPre step. Which means /etc/X11/default-display-manager was not pointing to /usr/sbin/gdm3. That it not a systemd problem, fwiw. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: wheezy to jessie upgrade: gdm system.d failure
On Monday 11 May 2015 20:52:27 Thomas H. George wrote: I ENCOUNTERED THIS SAME PROBLEM WITH THE INSTILLATION OF JESSIE ON A NEW COMPUTER, POSTED THE DESCRIPTION TO THE DEBIAN USER LIST AND RECEIVE NO HELP. Maybe noone knew the answer. There's no need to shout. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201505112110.36638.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: wheezy to jessie upgrade: gdm system.d failure
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:31:41PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 11.05.2015 um 23:10 schrieb Thomas H. George: On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:10:36PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 11 May 2015 20:52:27 Thomas H. George wrote: I ENCOUNTERED THIS SAME PROBLEM WITH THE INSTILLATION OF JESSIE ON A NEW COMPUTER, POSTED THE DESCRIPTION TO THE DEBIAN USER LIST AND RECEIVE NO HELP. Maybe noone knew the answer. There's no need to shout. He did receive help. It was pointed out to him (as can also be seen in the error message he posted) that gdm.service had failed in the ExecStartPre step. Which means /etc/X11/default-display-manager was not pointing to /usr/sbin/gdm3. The content of /etc/X11/default-display-manager is /usr/sbin/gdm3 just as it was when I started the upgrade. Before I started the upgrade gdm3 started and gnome desk was open at F7. Now it is not. That it not a systemd problem, fwiw. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150512035351.ga1...@tomgeorge.info
Re: wheezy to jessie upgrade: gdm system.d failure
Quoting Thomas H. George (li...@tomgeorge.info): The dist-upgrade with no apparent problems but gdm3 desktop failed to open. I ran /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart which failed with messages to check systemctl status gdm.service and journalctl -xn. The outputs of these commands are given below. I ENCOUNTERED THIS SAME PROBLEM WITH THE INSTILLATION OF JESSIE ON A NEW COMPUTER, POSTED THE DESCRIPTION TO THE DEBIAN USER LIST AND RECEIVE NO HELP. (Sh!) I don't use a DM so can't be much help;... On the new computer quite by accident I discovered that if I created a new user the gnome desktop would open for the new user. By tranferring files I was eventually able use the original user name and eliminate the dummy user. I don't want to do that on this computer which has all my files and setups though much of the information was backed up before starting the upgrade. ...however, this would suggest to me that perhaps your own configuration files may not agree with the new version. So it might be interesting to know which files you copied and/or which you didn't. Even without a DM, I get a load of dotfile-directories which I don't really understand the contents of. That's why I put (6) in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/02/msg00425.html Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150512013938.GA12736@alum
