Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-11-05 Thread David Christensen
On 11/05/2016 08:11 AM, someone wrote wrote: > On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 02:39:50PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: >> early on, so I pursued the KISS approach >> >> I find it helpful to: >> >> 1. Have a dedicated hardware firewall/ router appliance. >> >> 2. Have more than one computer, each

Re: Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie]

2016-10-17 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi Hans, so the radeon driver seems to work but maybe needs some tweaking. 1) Let's have a look at Xorg.0.log. grep -i chipset /var/log/Xorg.0.log grep -i render /var/log/Xorg.0.log (Maybe, append the file to your message) 2) Is there a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf? 3) Take a look at the

Re: Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie]

2016-10-10 Thread Hans Kraus
Hi, Am 09.10.2016 um 23:46 schrieb Brian: On Sat 08 Oct 2016 at 13:50:19 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: after following the propositions of Brian: dpkg -l | grep fglrx Lines with "ii" indicate installed packages. Purge and see what a reboot does. and Jörg-Volker Peetz: Hi, I also saw the

Re: Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie]

2016-10-09 Thread Brian
On Sat 08 Oct 2016 at 13:50:19 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: > after following the propositions of Brian: > > > > dpkg -l | grep fglrx > > > >Lines with "ii" indicate installed packages. Purge and see what a reboot > >does. > and Jörg-Volker Peetz: > > Hi, > > > > I also saw the other e-mail exchange

Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie]

2016-10-08 Thread Hans Kraus
Hi, after following the propositions of Brian: dpkg -l | grep fglrx Lines with "ii" indicate installed packages. Purge and see what a reboot does. and Jörg-Volker Peetz: > Hi, > > I also saw the other e-mail exchange with Brian where you concluded to purge all > "fglrx"-related packages.

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Oct 2016 at 19:05:23 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: > Hi, > > Am 06.10.2016 um 20:43 schrieb Brian: > >On Thu 06 Oct 2016 at 19:39:21 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: > > > >[...] > >>>(What does the glxinfo command give?) > >>> > >>root@robbe:~# glxinfo > >>Error: unable to open display > > > >That

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-07 Thread Hans Kraus
Hi, Am 06.10.2016 um 20:43 schrieb Brian: On Thu 06 Oct 2016 at 19:39:21 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: [...] (What does the glxinfo command give?) root@robbe:~# glxinfo Error: unable to open display That is when you used a terminal. Boot into X with xinit -- vt$XDG_VTNR It is not pretty

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-06 Thread Felix Miata
Hans Kraus composed on 2016-10-02 17:59 (UTC+0200): I upgraded my Debian server about a week ago from Wheezy to Jessie. After that the GUI stopped, I see only the grey screen with the sad computer telling me " Oh no, Something is Wrong" and the only option is to log out. I'm using Gnome as

Re: : Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-06 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, I also saw the other e-mail exchange with Brian where you concluded to purge all "fglrx"-related packages. Similarily, there seem to be "nvidia" packages on your system. Try dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia Purge them also. Then have a look which xorg-video drivers are left: dpkg -l | grep

Re:: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-06 Thread Hans Kraus
Hi, the requested outputs: Am 06.10.2016 um 19:56 schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: Hans Kraus wrote on 10/06/16 19:40: Am 05.10.2016 um 22:16 schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: [already sent to the list; sent it again to you since you asked for CC] Hans Kraus wrote on 10/04/16 20:01: Hi, The VGA

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-06 Thread Brian
On Thu 06 Oct 2016 at 19:39:21 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: > Hi, > > Am 05.10.2016 um 20:58 schrieb Brian: > >On Wed 05 Oct 2016 at 19:50:50 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: > > > >>thanks to all. Brian is right with his opinion that I'm not subscribed > >>to the list. I sent a 'subscribe' to > >> but

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-06 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hans Kraus wrote on 10/06/16 19:40: > > > Am 05.10.2016 um 22:16 schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: >> [already sent to the list; sent it again to you since you asked for CC] >> >> Hans Kraus wrote on 10/04/16 20:01: >>> Hi, >>> >>> The VGA output: >>>

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-06 Thread Hans Kraus
Am 05.10.2016 um 22:16 schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: [already sent to the list; sent it again to you since you asked for CC] Hans Kraus wrote on 10/04/16 20:01: Hi, The VGA output: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller:

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-06 Thread Hans Kraus
Hi, Am 05.10.2016 um 20:58 schrieb Brian: On Wed 05 Oct 2016 at 19:50:50 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: thanks to all. Brian is right with his opinion that I'm not subscribed to the list. I sent a 'subscribe' to but didn't get an answer (or at least I didn't find it). The reply comes back to the

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-05 Thread Brian
On Wed 05 Oct 2016 at 19:50:50 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: > thanks to all. Brian is right with his opinion that I'm not subscribed > to the list. I sent a 'subscribe' to > but didn't get an answer > (or at least I didn't find it). The reply comes back to the address you subscribed from. Maybe

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-05 Thread Hans Kraus
Hi, thanks to all. Brian is right with his opinion that I'm not subscribed to the list. I sent a 'subscribe' to but didn't get an answer (or at least I didn't find it). How do I switch drivers under Debian, especiallay from the "AMD FGLRX driver for Radeon adapters" to the "free radeon

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hans Kraus wrote on 10/04/16 20:01: > Hi, > > The VGA output: > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] > Turks > XT [Radeon HD 6670/7670] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > Subsystem:

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-05 Thread songbird
Patrick Bartek wrote: > Hans Kraus wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I upgraded my Debian server about a week ago from Wheezy to Jessie. > > What exactly did you do to "upgrade?" Did you read the Jessie Release > Notes regarding distribution upgrading? and as a side note, if it is

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-05 Thread Brian
On Tue 04 Oct 2016 at 20:55:54 +0100, Brian wrote: > Incidentally, we know X comes up for the OP (gnome-session runs. Without > X it wouldn't). So this may not be the problem at all. > > glxinfo | grep render > > is a good command for the OP to run. We would be interested in its output. The

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-04 Thread Brian
On Tue 04 Oct 2016 at 14:41:11 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Hans Kraus composed on 2016-10-04 20:01 (UTC+0200): > > >The VGA output: > > > >01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. > >[AMD/ATI] Turks XT

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-04 Thread Felix Miata
Hans Kraus composed on 2016-10-04 20:01 (UTC+0200): The VGA output: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Turks XT [Radeon HD 6670/7670] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) ... As far as I

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-04 Thread Hans Kraus
Hi, The VGA output: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Turks XT [Radeon HD 6670/7670] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 03e0

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-03 Thread Christian Seiler
> [ kernel, dist-upgrade ] All looks fine, you seem to have an up to date Jessie system and the only thing that was installed was the security update DSA-3684-1 of this morning. On 10/03/2016 08:42 PM, Hans Kraus wrote: > Oct 02 17:24:37 robbe /etc/gdm3/Xsession[2351]: Xlib: extension "GLX" >

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-03 Thread Hans Kraus
Hi, my results: === root@robbe:~# uname -a Linux robbe 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u1 (2016-09-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux === root@robbe:~# apt-get update

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-03 Thread Brian
On Mon 03 Oct 2016 at 18:50:59 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: > Hi, thank's for your sppedy reaction. > > With "gui stopped" I mean the following: > After the boot process, instead of the graphical login screen where > one can select the user, enter the password and do some selections, > the following

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-03 Thread Brian
On Sun 02 Oct 2016 at 20:02:39 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 02 Oct 2016 at 20:31:50 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > > > On 10/02/2016 05:59 PM, Hans Kraus wrote: > > > I upgraded my Debian server about a week ago from Wheezy to Jessie. > > > After that the GUI stopped, > > > > This is a bit

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-03 Thread Christian Seiler
On 10/03/2016 06:50 PM, Hans Kraus wrote: > With "gui stopped" I mean the following: > After the boot process, instead of the graphical login screen where > one can select the user, enter the password and do some selections, > the following screen appears: > > A pic of a sad computer with the

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-03 Thread Hans Kraus
Hi, thank's for your sppedy reaction. With "gui stopped" I mean the following: After the boot process, instead of the graphical login screen where one can select the user, enter the password and do some selections, the following screen appears: A pic of a sad computer with the text (the first

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-03 Thread brian
On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 00:55:37 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >brian composed on 2016-10-02 14:23 (UTC-0400): > >> On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 19:29:12 +0200, err...@free.fr wrote: > >>>what is your hadware? >>>graphic card? >>>and did you have any drivers or firmware for this? like firmware free or >>>non-free,

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-02 Thread Felix Miata
brian composed on 2016-10-02 14:23 (UTC-0400): On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 19:29:12 +0200, err...@free.fr wrote: what is your hadware? graphic card? and did you have any drivers or firmware for this? like firmware free or non-free, or drivers for nvidia, or amd etc. It's an eMachines desktop

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-02 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 17:59:48 +0200 Hans Kraus wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded my Debian server about a week ago from Wheezy to Jessie. What exactly did you do to "upgrade?" Did you read the Jessie Release Notes regarding distribution upgrading? B

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-02 Thread David Christensen
On 10/02/2016 08:59 AM, Hans Kraus wrote: > I upgraded my Debian server about a week ago from Wheezy to Jessie. > After that the GUI stopped, I see only the grey screen with the sad > computer telling me " Oh no, Something is Wrong" and the only option is > to log out. > > I'm using Gnome as my

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-02 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sonntag, 2. Oktober 2016 17:59:48 PYST Hans Kraus wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded my Debian server about a week ago from Wheezy to Jessie. > After that the GUI stopped, I see only the grey screen with the sad > computer telling me " Oh no, Something is Wrong" and the only option is > to log out.

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-02 Thread Brian
On Sun 02 Oct 2016 at 20:31:50 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > On 10/02/2016 05:59 PM, Hans Kraus wrote: > > I upgraded my Debian server about a week ago from Wheezy to Jessie. > > After that the GUI stopped, > > This is a bit vague, so a better explanation would be good. What > exactly do you

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-02 Thread Brian
On Sun 02 Oct 2016 at 17:59:48 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: > I upgraded my Debian server about a week ago from Wheezy to Jessie. > After that the GUI stopped, I see only the grey screen with the sad > computer telling me " Oh no, Something is Wrong" and the only option is > to log out. > > I'm

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-02 Thread Christian Seiler
On 10/02/2016 05:59 PM, Hans Kraus wrote: > I upgraded my Debian server about a week ago from Wheezy to Jessie. > After that the GUI stopped, This is a bit vague, so a better explanation would be good. What exactly do you mean "gui stopped"? Did that happen during the update? Or at boot? Does the

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-02 Thread brian
On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 19:29:12 +0200, you wrote: >what is your hadware? >graphic card? >and did you have any drivers or firmware for this? like firmware free or >non-free, or drivers for nvidia, or amd etc. It's an eMachines desktop which was originally supplied with Windows 7. I wiped Windows and

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-02 Thread err404
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Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-02 Thread brian
On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 17:59:48 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: >Hi, > >I upgraded my Debian server about a week ago from Wheezy to Jessie. >After that the GUI stopped, I see only the grey screen with the sad >computer telling me " Oh no, Something is Wrong" and the only option is >to log out. > >I'm using