[OpenIndiana-discuss] No GUI after upgrade yesterday

[Gary Mills]

On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 08:49:06PM -0600, Tim Mooney wrote:
> In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No GUI after upgrade yesterday, Gary...:
> 
> > I have a laptop, an ASUS Eee PC 1005PE, that now has 2 gigs of memory.
> > The memory upgrade allowed me to do a package upgrade from a Hipster
> > BE of 2017-06-10 to yesterday's version of 2019-03-01 .
> 
> I haven't verified the timeline, but for an upgrade from that far out of
> date, you probably also need to look into the switch from the old desktop
> environment to MATE.

Yes, that seems reasonable to me.  The old BE runs Gnome.

> It could also be that you just need to activate the MATE graphical login.
> What's the state of  svc:/application/graphical-login/lightdm:default ?

It doesn't exist.  That's some upgrade, eh?  Is there a package I can
add to install MATE?

> I've not tried to dual-boot OI, so I won't even take a shot that this:
> 
> > Now I have another problem.  I had an entry in the GRUB menu to boot
> > the Windows FDKISK partion, but this too has disappeared.  How do I
> > boot the Windows partition now?

Yes, that's my problem now.  I know I can make the partition bootable,
but I'd prefer to chain-load it somehow.  It used to work with GRUB.


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