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I have been running Lenny and it has worked OK
Recently I tried to upgrade to Sid and did following:
1. chanced lenny to sid in source.list
2. sudo aptitude update
3. sudo aptitude full-upgrade
After rebooting there is now GUI ... I just get a login prompt
There must be something basic I have missed ...
@zkab, I suggest that you look at the xorg logs to see what's wrong.
If you're not very familiar with Linux in general, and Debian in particular I strongly recommend that you stay with testing. If you decide to stay with SID, also look at apt-listbugs, mailing lists, etc.
I got it working after login, startx and installing some GNOME desktop software ... the system boots OK into a GUI environment
During boot process it suggests that I install GRUB2 with command 'upgrade-from-grub-legacy' which I did and after reboot I get:
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