[SOLVED] change from Debian 7 testing to Jessie mess up the system

xiongnu · 01-09-2014, 09:05 PM

hi,

i changed Debian7 xfce 'testing' to 'Jessie' on my thinkpad laptop in order to get e17 windows manager working. but after the change, Debian 7 xfce taskbar, menu, firefox launch icon on desktop have all stopped working.

not sure what should i do to make it working again, any ideas?

k3lt01 · 01-09-2014, 10:42 PM

Debian 7 is not testing, Jessie is testing. If you changed from Debian 7 which is Wheezy and also the current Stable to Debian testing which is Jessie what did you do to attempt this change?

xiongnu · 01-09-2014, 11:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by k3lt01

Debian 7 is not testing, Jessie is testing. If you changed from Debian 7 which is Wheezy and also the current Stable to Debian testing which is Jessie what did you do to attempt this change?

i started with Debian 7 xfce, upgraded to 'testing' in order to try out E17 WM, which didn't work, then i changed to 'Jessie', but now i've got a broken Debian system whose menu, icons, taskbar all stopped working.

all of these is done through /etc/apt/sources.list replacing "stable" with "testing" then with "jessie" and run "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade "

descendant_command · 01-09-2014, 11:21 PM

testing=jessie (currently) so putting either of those in your sources.list has exactly the same effect.

You probably need to complete the upgrade.

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

evo2 · 01-09-2014, 11:21 PM

Hi,

as already stated at the moment jessie is testing. Anyway, to start debugging this you should look at your ~/.xsession-errors.

Evo2.

k3lt01 · 01-09-2014, 11:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xiongnu

i started with Debian 7 xfce, upgraded to 'testing' in order to try out E17 WM, which didn't work, then i changed to 'Jessie', but now i've got a broken Debian system whose menu, icons, taskbar all stopped working.

all of these is done through /etc/apt/sources.list replacing "stable" with "testing" then with "jessie" and run "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade "

Changing testing to jessie would have had no effect at all because testing is jessie.

At what point did the system "break"?
Have you tried reinstalling xfce using

Code:

apt-get install xfce4

in the new testing/jessie system?

xiongnu · 01-10-2014, 06:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by evo2

Hi,

as already stated at the moment jessie is testing. Anyway, to start debugging this you should look at your ~/.xsession-errors.

Evo2.

thanks, '~/.xsession-errors' shows that xfce can't load a module 'scim' (which i use to input multiple languages on my system, worked both in 'wheezy' and 'testing').

i then completely remove 'scim' 'e17' etc from my system, afterwards i could use xfce normally again

now reflecting back, during my change from 'testing' to 'jessie', i received some warnings

Code:

W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/e100/d102e_ucode.bin for module e100
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/e100/d101s_ucode.bin for module e100
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/e100/d101m_ucode.bin for module e100

so i used following commands to locate the missing package 'nonfree-firmware-linux' and installed them, and afterwards my system was wrecked

# apt-get install apt-file
# apt-file update
# apt-file search /lib/firmware/e100/