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bug #33733: Gnome, greeter, and graphical interface are gone

Submitted by:  Linda <lindamarcella>
Submitted on:  Sat 09 Jul 2011 08:08:16 AM UTC  
 
Category: BootingSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Software Error
Status: InvalidPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: Linda
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 
Release: otherReproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None

Sat 09 Jul 2011 05:14:03 PM UTC, comment #4:

it says choose all DISKS. sda1 isn't a disk, it's a partitition. Moreover the said dialog is Debian-specific and not upstream so not handled here.

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Project Administrator
Sat 09 Jul 2011 04:58:31 PM UTC, comment #3:

I will say, though, that the documentation for which device to boot from, sda or sda1, was ambiguous. Some info said something , like "choose both if you're not sure which is your bootable device", and doing so caused warnings like "this is a bad idea." Couldn't grub detect which is the bootable partition?

Linda <lindamarcella>
Sat 09 Jul 2011 04:55:52 PM UTC, comment #2:

Sorry for bothering you. It's fixed. I'm not sure what it was. Maybe it had nothing to do with GRUB2. It might have happened at any point in the upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze, which is probably more likely. Instead of keeping some of my old configuration files, I accepted new ones for some packages during the Debian upgrade, and that screwed things up alot, including deleting a lot of packages like gnome. After reinstalling those, the GUI reappeared.

Linda <lindamarcella>
Sat 09 Jul 2011 10:17:03 AM UTC, comment #1:

Set GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD to text. This default was changed in GRUB2. Real problem is on kernel side though.

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Project Administrator
Sat 09 Jul 2011 08:08:16 AM UTC, original submission:

After upgrading Debian from Lenny to Squeeze, and running "upgrade-from-grub-legacy", the graphical interface and greeter no longer load. One error message is

Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Linda <lindamarcella>

 

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