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From: Rick Thomas on 13 Dec 2009 15:20

Installing squeeze on a G4 PowerMac from the "sid d-i" daily
"Businesscard" CD.

All seemed nominal during the install. But after the reboot,
the login screen did not appear. I was left sitting at a text
console. In fact, it appears that gdm and nearly all of the
gnome-desktop-environment task is missing. (And yes, I did check
"desktop" during the tasksel phase of the installation!)

When I logged in and typed "startx" I was left with a black
screen.

For what it's worth, an i386 install at about the same time went
flawlessly.

This is repeatable. I've tried it with two different dailys. And
with Businesscard and Netinst CDs.

Anybody else seen anything like it? Anybody know what's going on?



Thanks!

Rick

PS: The full details are in the installation report at Bug#560684.


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From: Clark Martin on 13 Dec 2009 18:10
Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> Installing squeeze on a G4 PowerMac from the "sid d-i" daily
> "Businesscard" CD.
>
> All seemed nominal during the install. But after the reboot,
> the login screen did not appear. I was left sitting at a text
> console. In fact, it appears that gdm and nearly all of the
> gnome-desktop-environment task is missing. (And yes, I did check
> "desktop" during the tasksel phase of the installation!)
>
> When I logged in and typed "startx" I was left with a black
> screen.
>
> For what it's worth, an i386 install at about the same time went
> flawlessly.
>
> This is repeatable. I've tried it with two different dailys. And
> with Businesscard and Netinst CDs.

I just updated Lenny to Squeeze on an i386 and had the same problem as
far as gdm being missing. It came up in the text console so I started
fiddling with the xorg.conf file. It seems like 3/4 of the Debian
installs I've done have needed such fiddling. I fired up X and also got
a black screen. I finally realized gdm was missing so I used aptitude
to install it. It came up in the GUI okay after that. The one item I
have to had is that postgresql and a couple of related packages threw
out errors when aptitude ran. I've tried re-installing them with no
luck. Postgresql appears to be running and I haven't seen anything
complaining about it. Oh, I did notice that only postgresql 8.3 was set
up in init.d. I disabled it and enabled 8.4. No change though.


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