[SOLVED]Booting only to text console after first update

[hanspb]

Hi, first of all, I have read this thread:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,81337.0.html

and it did not help me, so I have to start a new one even though I seem to have the exact same problem. That thread is about an Nvidia card, I have Ati Radeon XPress 200M. After installation and first round of updates, the next boot ends in a text console. When I try to start X with startx, I get the mouse pointer and a message in a very basic window, saying

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Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus?

I have tried to edit xorg.conf and substitute "ati" with "vesa", but it did not help.

Edit: I tried after the startx error message to run 'qdbus' and I got the following:

Could not connect to D-Bus server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.

[Ramchu]

Did you try XFdrake from the terminal ?

[hanspb]

Yes, did that now. No change. My graphics card was not in the list, so I chose the already chosen "Ati Radeon 1950 or earlier". Test image was ok.

[Bald Brick]

I don't know the reason for your problem. It's quite possibly just related to your video card and I have no experience of Ati cards. But as the error message complains about not being able to start D-Bus, you might first of all try to reinstall dbus-x11.

Open a terminal and su to root. Then run:

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apt-get update && apt-get install --reinstall dbus-x11

[Ramchu]

Found some information here :   http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.16.20.html

Scroll down to : X Fails to Load on Systems with Linux Kernel Version 2.6.x  

At the bottom of the page is a link to:  support.ati.com

[hanspb]

So, I got it . I read the thread above, and it seems one can not update with 'apt-get upgrade'. I tried with 'apt-get dist-upgrade', and then it worked! But I don't know why, can someone enlighten me, please? And thanks for your help, I'll shure be back for more.

[Ramchu]

I don't know the reason for your problem. It's quite possibly just related to your video card and I have no experience of Ati cards. But as the error message complains about not being able to start D-Bus, you might first of all try to reinstall dbus-x11.

This is most likely what solved your problem, when you did the update .

[Bald Brick]

So, I got it . I read the thread above, and it seems one can not update with 'apt-get upgrade'. I tried with 'apt-get dist-upgrade', and then it worked! But I don't know why, can someone enlighten me, please? And thanks for your help, I'll shure be back for more.

If there are newer versions of your installed packages apt-get upgrade installs them, but it doesn't check if the dependencies have changed and it never removes an installed package. apt-get dist-upgrade takes care of changing dependencies and resolves conflicts between packages by upgrading the more important ones even if that means that it must remove another package.

This means that on a rolling release apt-get upgrade will sooner or later break your system (even if it at first may sound like the more cautious choice).

[hanspb]

Well, I learned something new, then . That's great, and thank you all!