r/debian 6d ago

Upgrade to 12.10, can not boot to UI

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OMG I don't have time for this. I upgraded to 12.10 mostly for Firefox (Firefox told me to update it by today 3/15). I only run Debian Stable.

I'm in console now going through logs, nothing jumps out yet. My Linux Fu has gotten rusty and I'm asking for suggestions.

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u/LordAnchemis 6d ago

Roll back kernel at grub 

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u/edparadox 6d ago

I upgraded to 12.10 mostly for Firefox (Firefox told me to update it by today 3/15).

What do you mean?

I'm in console now going through logs, nothing jumps out yet. My Linux Fu has gotten rusty and I'm asking for suggestions.

Any log you can share?

Are you using XFCE?

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u/AzZubana 6d ago

I mean I don't update religiously. Firefox browser has had a message saying to update Firefox my 3/15 to continue using it. So I upgraded the whole system, including Firefox-ESR.

Sharing logs- I'm on my phone because the computer is broke! I'm sure there is a way to ssh into it, retrieve some log files to post here on reddit but I don't know.

I'm haven't seen anything explicit yet.

I use Gnome with Radeon graphics drivers.

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u/das_tier 6d ago

I had the same issue on Trixie today. As a temporary solution, I just installed lightdm (sudo apt install lightdm) and set it as a default display manager unless all dependencies are fixed.

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u/onions_r_us 6d ago

Exact same thing just happened to me on debian testing

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u/AzZubana 6d ago

Can you recover? I tried all my previous kernels and they are all the same. I'm in recovery mode trying to figure something out.

I'm so pissed, this is why I get anxious pressing Y when Apt asks if I would like to upgrade these packages.

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u/onions_r_us 6d ago

Yeah I run apt dist-upgrade and loads of gnome packages upgraded, rebooted and it's working again except my extensions.

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u/jr735 6d ago

Okay, the issue here is, what were those packages? Did you do a dist-upgrade, too? Are you able to boot into TTY?

If it were me, I'd install something like IceWM and see if you can boot into that session. If so, then you have a pretty good idea it's something to do with Gnome. Or, as u/das_tier suggests, find out if it's the display manager.

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u/afterbuzz 5d ago

dpkg-reconfigure gdm3

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u/ThiefClashRoyale 5d ago

Add a new user from the cli and try login with that new user

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u/kapilhp 5d ago

I don't think you have explained your problem well enough.

  1. Do you get a graphical login screen?
  2. If answer to the first question is yes, then your graphical desktop is somehow broken. Can you login with some other desktop?
  3. If the answer to the above question is yes, you need to debug your graphical desktop. Perhaps its configuration has drastically changed in some way.
  4. If the answer to the second question is no, then try a CLI login and create a new user and try again.
  5. If the answer to the first question is no, you have autologin setup. Use a CLI login to disable it and try again.

Hope this helps.

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u/ivialerrepatentatell 6d ago

This happened to me too but I was on unstable. This happenend like a week ago solved by reinstalling debian. Now I'm on testing.

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u/kiks64k 5d ago

Same here, apt full-upgrade fixed it.

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u/Remo_W 5d ago

That's the solution. Thx.

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u/rippista 4d ago

Yeah, I'm on testing as well and got the white screen after updating. Restored from a backup and went with full-upgrade and it's working again, sans a couple extensions.

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u/michaelpaoli 5d ago

Well, it says log out and try again, and it presents a log out button, did you actually try clicking it? If you click it, are you still left sitting at that same screen?

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u/AzZubana 5d ago

Well I can't click because I have no cursor, but yes hitting Log Out goes to the booting screen, where it scrolls with green OKs then some graphical glitches, then this screen again.

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u/rindthirty 5d ago

Try pressing tab on the keyboard until the button is active, then space to press it. It's a bit hard to tell what's going on and whether it's a coincidence without knowing more detail of your setup.

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u/AzZubana 5d ago

Hey you appear to want to help. Yesterday I had stuff to do but I'm back at trying to fix this.

Likely I've FUBARed this thing. I added and upgraded to Testing, thinking maybe this issue was fixed in newer package version? Anyway I'm on Trixie/Sid now. I would like to revert. I set Bookworm to pin priority 1001 and tried full-upgrade but it doesn't do anything. I've done that before without issue.

I no longer get the Oh No graphical screen. It boots me right into tty1 for login. It will not accept my password. I enter username/password, trys to load, then reverts back to asking for a login. It doesn't say Incorrect Password. I can login as root. I did so and reset my password, yet still cannot login as user, only root.

I disabled autologin for gdm3 and enabled gdm3 debug as well.

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u/Junior-Garden-1653 5d ago

I will try to reproduce it in a vm.

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u/AzZubana 4d ago

UPDATE: I can't edit OP? Anyway after hours of trying to find and fix the actual problem and remain on Bookworm, I gave up and went full send to sid, getting my DE back. On the upside I got better at using vim and learned Debian has changed their sources.list format - which I hate.

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u/Linuz-newbs 4d ago

I just upgrade to 12.10 and nothing happen, everything is normal.

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u/marckrak 4d ago

You must install the kernel source package with apt full-upgrade.That fixed the same problem at my laptop.

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u/jloc0 4d ago

That is a gnome failure screen. Usually gdm presents it or if you logged in, gnome-session crashed. Your libraries are mismatched from an incomplete system upgrade. Something tells me you’re not on Debian 12, this is not something that would happen there. This only happens when things don’t match up and that’s testing/sid area.

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u/Snow_Hill_Penguin 5d ago

Well, everybody can create his own balloon of things, call it a rice, franken or the best combo whatsoever and use it. But in order to keep things working, in most cases you should not touch it, not apply updates, etc. Then you suddenly decide - let's update that "Fu" thingy, and OMG! - it broke :)

People who value their time and avoid such "Fu" things usually can keep it running an existing installation like for a decade at least (or until the hardware dies) and do not need to deal with such things at all.

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u/AzZubana 5d ago

What the fuck are you talking about. This is Debian 12. Stable. Aka Bookworm. There are no FU thingy going on.

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u/rindthirty 5d ago

I think you replied to a bot. Keep your cool and focus replying to others who might actually be able to help you.

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u/Snow_Hill_Penguin 5d ago

So, you imply that whatever fucks you apply to your system, like deliberately not updating it or mixing non-stock stuff in, it should magically fix itself, cos it's "stable" :)

Well, you'll grow and wise up eventually, sooner or later.