I have been running a dual-boot linux / windows system on a Toshiba laptop for several years. According to /etc/apt/sources.list, the system is wheezy, installed with binary 20140209-16:42.
When I turn the machine on, I get the usual GRUB multi-boot display. The windows boot seems to be working correctly. When I boot linux, I get what seems to be a screen of normal messages, then the screen goes gray with a wristwatch icon, and it just stays that way. If I type control-alt-F1, I get put into a character- based terminal, and am able to log in, run emacs for simple file editing, and download files. However, if I type startx, I get the debian spiral logo, followed by a screen saying something has gone wrong and my system has been shut down for my own protection. A guess as to the cause of problems: In the last few days, I have received messages about updating my system. When I have authorized the update, something goes wrong and the process halts. In at least one case, I got a message about insufficient disk space on my /root partition. I tried to fix this problem by clearing the cache on iceweasel, and the update seemed to give me different failure messages subsequently. Output from df: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 330215 239888 73278 77% / udev 10240 0 10240 0% /dev tmpfs 400736 684 400052 1% /run /dev/disk/by-uuid 330215 239888 73278 77% / /0923b264-3863-4302-b3a3-23fd36f4ab8e tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock tmpfs 2457460 0 2457460 0% /run/shm /dev/sda10 176581224 1266084 166345312 1% /home /dev/sda9 376807 10265 347086 3% /tmp /dev/sda6 8649992 5981124 2229472 73% /usr /dev/sda7 2882592 2430340 305820 89% /var Output from du --max-depth 1 /root: 21 /root/.pki 891 /root/.gstreamer-0.10 16799 /root/.mozilla 4 /root/.pulse 1 /root/Pictures 26200 /root/.cache 11 /root/.gconf 1 /root/Music 4 /root/.dbus 1504 /root/.config 52 /root/.gnupg 1 /root/Downloads 3 /root/.mission-control 278 /root/.local 428 /root/.gimp-2.8 1 /root/Templates 1 /root/Videos 28 /root/.gnash 48 /root/.scid 1 /root/Desktop 24641 /root/.claws-mail 1 /root/Public 3 /root/.gnome2 11 /root/.aptitude 8 /root/.thumbnails 2 /root/.emacs.d 1 /root/.gvfs 1 /root/Documents 1 /root/.gnome2_private 55 /root/.texmf-var 71244 /root -- 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/20150207204245.7df0e...@debian.hsd1.il.comcast.net.
