Re: Gnome unrunnable after upgrade to Wheezy (Was: Gnome 3 fail scenario)

2014-01-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Patrick Bartek wrote: Or does your VPS use the system's hardware you're logging in from to display the VPS desktop? Yes. Do you own the hardware your VPS runs on... No. or does a service and you just purchase space. Yes. Since I think they do a bang-up job, here's

Re: Gnome unrunnable after upgrade to Wheezy (Was: Gnome 3 fail scenario)

2014-01-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Bob Bernstein wrote: [snip] I have MATE running, evidently very nicely, on a home wheezy machine, so _real soon now_ I will put it on my new wheezy on the vpn. I looked at cinnamon but, unlike MATE, they have not yet seen fit to create a repo of debs that I could

Gnome unrunnable after upgrade to Wheezy (Was: Gnome 3 fail scenario)

2014-01-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
I just upgraded squeeze to wheezy on a remote vps host, a Linode. Gnome will only launch as far as running the session provided by the gnome-session-fallback' package. Prior to installing _that_ package gnome's failure was sufficiently hard to prevent the vpn server on the host from launching

Re: Gnome unrunnable after upgrade to Wheezy (Was: Gnome 3 fail scenario)

2014-01-26 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Bob Bernstein wrote: I just upgraded squeeze to wheezy on a remote vps host, a Linode. Gnome will only launch as far as running the session provided by the gnome-session-fallback' package. Prior to installing _that_ package gnome's failure was sufficiently hard to

Re: Gnome unrunnable after upgrade to Wheezy (Was: Gnome 3 fail scenario)

2014-01-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Patrick Bartek wrote: Your system probably older, and lacks the hardware requirements to run GNOME 3 -- mine does, too -- and hence it drops to fallback mode. The problem is usually the graphics card. My machine, a virtual private server, has NO video card. I even ran

Re: Gnome unrunnable after upgrade to Wheezy (Was: Gnome 3 fail scenario)

2014-01-26 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Patrick Bartek wrote: Your system probably older, and lacks the hardware requirements to run GNOME 3 -- mine does, too -- and hence it drops to fallback mode. The problem is usually the graphics card. My machine, a