Ubuntu
update-manager package

GDM Uninstalled on Upgrade

Bug #67069 reported by Dan Roberts
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Bug Description

As it turned out, GDM had been uninstalled during my upgrade to edgy, which was painful. Maybe aptitude instead of apt-get would have worked better, I don't know. Regardless, it works now that i reinstalled the gdm package.

**OLD COMMENT**
I upgraded from Dapper. (Had trouble regarding the x11-common package) And now when I boot my computer, i get a plain old tty-looking boot proccess, and instead of X.org starting, I get dumped to a virtual terminal, from there I can login and startx just fine, but I shouldn't have to. I don't know if gdm is failing to start, or what.

See original description
Tags: edgy-upgrade
Dan Roberts (ademan555)
description: updated
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

Reading your bugreport I assume you didn't upgrade using "update-manager -c -d" but you used apt-get? The recommended way for gui users is using upgdate-manager because it will avoid this kind of problem.

To get your system back, try
$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop^
and let me know if it brings back the system for you.

Cheers,
 Michael

Changed in update-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Dan Roberts (ademan555) wrote :

Correct. (note i already reinstalled gdm, i just feel that SHOULD happen, i mean, its gdm, why would it get removed?) My upgrade was something like this:

//edit my sources.list to reflect edgy
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
//FAILED because of x11-common
//got a workaround from gnomefreak in #ubuntu+1
//workaround is as follows
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu5_i386.deb
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo shutdown -r now
Xorg -version //came back as 7.0.0 so i assumed the upgrade failed
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
//Here I ran synaptic and hit "remove" on a broken package, at which point it highlighted all broken packages for removal, and offered to install other packages (i don't know why)
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -f
Xorg -version //came back as 7.1.1 so i assumed the upgrade succeeded

as you can tell i was trying just about everything, but in the end it DID work, but it also cost me my GDM. I suppose it could have been my own upgrade proccess that did this, but i know other people who experienced the x11-common dependancy problems

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