Re: GUI won't start after wheezy upgrade [SOLVED]

2015-05-09 Thread John Aten
The release notes said that monitors must support 3D graphics, which should be most monitors made within the last 10 years. My laptop is about that old, so I figured that must be it. I installed KDE, and it works fine. I also changed my sources.list to avoid a surprise like this in the future.

Re: GUI won't start after wheezy upgrade

2015-05-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-05-03, John Aten wrote: > > --Apple-Mail-2--756983614 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=us-ascii > > I am not in fact running wheezy. I got confused, it is Jesse.=20 > > /etc/apt/sources.list: > # Debian packages for stable > deb http

GUI won't start after wheezy upgrade

2015-05-03 Thread John Aten
I am not in fact running wheezy. I got confused, it is Jesse. /etc/apt/sources.list: # Debian packages for stable deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib # Uncomment the deb-src line if you want 'apt-get source' # to work with most packages. # deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/deb

Re: GUI won't start after wheezy upgrade

2015-05-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-05-02, John Aten wrote: > > --Apple-Mail-1--836995451 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=us-ascii > > Hi all, > > I am running wheezy on an old Dell Inspiron B130. After updating today, = > after not having had the machine powered on f

GUI won't start after wheezy upgrade

2015-05-02 Thread John Aten
Hi all, I am running wheezy on an old Dell Inspiron B130. After updating today, after not having had the machine powered on for a few weeks, Gnome freezes on startup. I have the machine boot to command prompt, I run 'start x' and the gui background comes up, but it hangs there and I can't do an