raspberry pi not working after dist-upgrade

[undeadzzs]

Hello,

I just recently bought a raspberry pi, hooked it up and it worked all find. After I did a apt-get dist-upgrade it turned off and isn't turning on again. (Im using the noobs software)
the red light turns on but the green isn't anymore, anyone know what I should do.

[Rive]

Restore your backup.

I don't use apt-get dist-upgrade anymore because It is my experience that it breaks things. I also don't use NOOBS.

Every week or so, I do:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

[stderr]

Hello,

I just recently bought a raspberry pi, hooked it up and it worked all find. After I did a apt-get dist-upgrade it turned off and isn't turning on again. (Im using the noobs software)

When you run apt-get, the system doesn't "turn off", so right there I suspect there's a problem. Is your free space sufficient to be doing this sort of thing? When you do a dist-upgrade, it goes for broke and includes a new kernel if available. Since it's lower level, any issue occurring there might be more lethal than elsewhere but it always, you know, depends. I would find another sdcard to test and put R. jessie lite on it, boot up, see what is going on. You can get by with a 2gig for this test. You will need to expand the image before doing much that writes to the disk because there is little free space until you do that.

[undeadzzs]

Hello,

I just recently bought a raspberry pi, hooked it up and it worked all find. After I did a apt-get dist-upgrade it turned off and isn't turning on again. (Im using the noobs software)

When you run apt-get, the system doesn't "turn off", so right there I suspect there's a problem. Is your free space sufficient to be doing this sort of thing? When you do a dist-upgrade, it goes for broke and includes a new kernel if available. Since it's lower level, any issue occurring there might be more lethal than elsewhere but it always, you know, depends. I would find another sdcard to test and put R. jessie lite on it, boot up, see what is going on. You can get by with a 2gig for this test. You will need to expand the image before doing much that writes to the disk because there is little free space until you do that.

I gave jessie lite a try, still the same outcome red light on the pi and a black screen on the monitor
is there anyway of telling if my pi is gone for good?
thank you for the help