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upgrade to Squeeze from Lenny, no icons or toolbar

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upgrade to Squeeze from Lenny, no icons or toolbar

#1 Post by fishtoprecords »

I have a server that was happily running Lenny. Last reboot was over 100 days ago. So I decided to fix it and install Squeeze.

the upgrade went well, booted into grub. (with the grub2 test menus).

When I login using the console, I get the nice GUI login, and something looks like the graphics world is being setup. The screen goes to a pretty light blue background. But there are no icons, no toolbars, no windows.

I could believe something in the Xconfig is broken, say it thinks I have a much larger screen, and all the icons are off the edges. But that is only a guess.

I've tried both the default grub2 and the old grub menu, no difference.

How do I debug this?

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Re: upgrade to Squeeze from Lenny, no icons or toolbar

#2 Post by paivakil »

It just may be that metacity and gnome-panel are not installed. Check if the basic gnome desktop is installed.
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Re: upgrade to Squeeze from Lenny, no icons or toolbar

#3 Post by kiyop »

If you do not know how to enter into terminal and/or tty, try the following.
At grub2 menu, type "E" and add "single" to the end of the line starting with "linux", and type "CTRL" and "x" at the same time.
You may enter into recovery menu. Select "(root) shell" then you can use CLI shell.

If GUI login manager has started, press "CTRL" and "ALT" and "F2" at the same time. You will enter into tty2.
Login as root. Or login as ordinary user and type

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su
If you do not know how to check if gnome-panel is installed or not, type at CLI shell as root user,

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apt-cache policy gnome-panel
Edit at 7:30 on 2011-07-31 at Japan
4D696B65 wrote:You do not need to be root for apt-cache policy, normal user is fine.
Thanks 4D696B65. I has not known that. :oops:
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Re: upgrade to Squeeze from Lenny, no icons or toolbar

#4 Post by 4D696B65 »

kiyop wrote: If you do not know how to check if gnome-panel is installed or not, type at CLI shell as root user,

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apt-cache policy gnome-panel
You do not need to be root for apt-cache policy, normal user is fine.

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Re: upgrade to Squeeze from Lenny, no icons or toolbar

#5 Post by fishtoprecords »

Looks like gnome-panel is not there:


pfarrell@beatles:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-panel
gnome-panel:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.30.2-2
Version table:
2.30.2-2 0
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main i386 Packages


First attempt to install it with apt-get failed, lots of dependancies.

Now trying a quick
apt-get -f install to fix that stuff.

I'll let you know if that fixes it all.

Thanks so far

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Re: upgrade to Squeeze from Lenny, no icons or toolbar

#6 Post by fishtoprecords »

That all worked fine. Thanks.

Any guesses as to what caused this? Normally I find Debian upgrades to be totally painless. Could it have been something I did wrong (wrong order, wrong step, etc.). or perhaps it was just because this is a pretty old system, at least 8 or 9 years.

Thanks again

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