[ale] Debian Jessie upgrade startx dead

[Dustin Strickland]

Just some wild guesses, but maybe check your runlevel. Perhaps run a `dpkg
-l *dm` to see if perhaps the upgrade installed a display manager for some
reason. Do you have anything relevant in your Xorg logs?

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
wrote:

> Already did that, didn't work.
>
> On 2016-04-30 18:20, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> > Create a new account and try that.  That will rule out userid-specific
> config
> > issues.
> >
> > On 04/30/2016 08:40 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> >> I just upgraded a laptop from Wheezy to Jessie.  Under Wheezy everything
> >> was fine, I could log in then run startx to bring up the desktop
> >> (fluxbox).  Under Jessie I can't get anything to come up, I just get a
> >> black screen.  Even the virtual terminals are dead (can't Ctrl-Alt-Fn or
> >> crash out with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace).
> >>
> >> Nothing seems out of the ordinary, I don't see any obvious error
> >> messages during the startup process.
> >>
> >> I'd love suggestions about other places to look for any other issues.
> >> Command line is working, video looks normal there.  I don't think any
> >> configurations changed but I do have a backup of /etc to compare against
> >> but a quick glance says no changes.
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