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I've had Debian Wheezy for a long time and decided to upgrade yesterday to Jessie, a few things I did wrong, I ran autoremove because I was careless and a few things happened.

1) I have to run startx to start the window manager / GUI every time I boot

and

2) I have to run ifup eth0 to get internet access. Basically I have to manually get DHCP to assign me an IP address every time.

How could I fix this so that I can avoid doing both every time I boot into linux?

Space Ghost
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Looks like you've removed your login manager. Install a login manager(i.e. SLiM) and append ifup eth0 to your .xinitrc file.

sikerbela
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  • Also known as the display manager. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/display_manager – iyrin Mar 29 '15 at 06:03
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Edit your .bashrc file to include the following commands at the bottom of the script.

startx ifup eth0

It may not be the most elegant but it'll fix your problem.

Dylan
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Install a display manager1. If it is not working or you already have one installed, then run dpkg-reconfigure <name of display manager>2

Select your display manager in the configuration screen and you should be good to go.

Add auto eth0 to /etc/network/interfaces.3

iyrin
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