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[SOLVED] Upgrading to Stretch i can't see GUI

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[SOLVED] Upgrading to Stretch i can't see GUI

#1 Post by ratrace »

Hello,

i upgraded from jessie to stretch by following the instructions that i found in installation guide https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch ... ading-full. The commands that i used where, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade, aptitude search '~c', aptitude purge '~c', apt-get autoremove.

When i'm trying to restart the system i'm getting a prompt line where i'm logging in to my account by my username and password, but i can not see the graphical user interface (gnome). To the start of the command line it shows 'Debian GNU/Linux 9 ratraceoff tty1' 'ratraceoff login:'.

What should i do to make my system start by showing gnome, as it did in jessie?
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Re: Upgrading to Stretch i can't see GUI

#2 Post by stevepusser »

Maybe what video hardware and driver you were using in Jessie could have some bearing on the issue. Since this would seem to be a video issue, how about providing a little information?
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Re: Upgrading to Stretch i can't see GUI

#3 Post by wrmelgaard »

This sounds like the same issue that I reported earlier.
After logging in, type "startx" in a command line. That should bring up the GUI.
Then, using synaptic package manager (or similar) do a search on "sddm". I found that kde-config-sddm was installed, but the sddm package was not installed.
After installing sddm (the default is "maui"), I got a login screen that allows listed users (but not root) to log in.
ratrace wrote:Hello,

i upgraded from jessie to stretch by following the instructions that i found in installation guide https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch ... ading-full. The commands that i used where, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade, aptitude search '~c', aptitude purge '~c', apt-get autoremove.

When i'm trying to restart the system i'm getting a prompt line where i'm logging in to my account by my username and password, but i can not see the graphical user interface (gnome). To the start of the command line it shows 'Debian GNU/Linux 9 ratraceoff tty1' 'ratraceoff login:'.

What should i do to make my system start by showing gnome, as it did in jessie?

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Re: Upgrading to Stretch i can't see GUI

#4 Post by ratrace »

I tried the solution that is described in the link below and it worked. Now i can see gnome. Although i don't now if i did anything wrong in the first place.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... 175612214/

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