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by Timothy Pearson

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 All, As Lisi alluded to earlier the TDE master server is continuing to experience issues causing sporadic service outages. I believe I have traced this fault to a defective CPU package; this is the first time in well over a decade that I have actually seen a defective CPU, but the certainty of the diagnosis has grown sufficiently that I have ordered a replacement. I have dsabled some secondary services to try to reduce overall system load in the hopes that this will stabilize the remaining services until the replacement parts arrive. You can follow along on the status of the repairs at this page (when available): https://trinitydesktop.org/servicealerts/ Technical details: The TDE project makes heavy use of a rather beefy server containing G34 Opteron processors (i.e. in the $1,000 USD range _per CPU package_). I started to see various MCEs (not related to DRAM) and, much more commonly, lockups several weeks ago but assumed it was a power stability issue. Unfortunately, even after swapping the PSUs the lockups are obviously continuing, and becoming more frequent. My best guess is that this particular processor has developed a somewhat unstable L2 / L3 cache; the MCEs that I did log were similar to this: [Hardware Error]: MC2 Error: VB Data ECC or parity error. [Hardware Error]: Error Status: Corrected error, no action required. [Hardware Error]: CPU:6 (15:2:0) MC2_STATUS[Over|CE|MiscV|-|-|-|-|CECC]: [Hardware Error]: cache level: L2, tx: DATA, mem-tx: EV While it would be possible to completely shut down QuickBuild (thus taking much of the load off of the affected servers) I believe this would be detrimental to the long term existence of the project. In particular, we would lose all tinderboxing; I would effectively need to pick a specific version of Debian, make sure that a specific release of TDE works on that, and ignore all the rest. Also, the release interval would jump back up into the multi-year range due to the difficulty involved in manually assembling all of the requisite repository files. There are other somewhat obvious drawbacks as well, but just those two alone would probably kill the project. I also don't reasonably see how QuickBuild's services can be replaced by anything free in the cloud. The built TDE packages occupy several hundred gigabytes of disk space, and can easily hog dozens of build machines on multiple architectures. A long time ago (back when TDE only supported a couple of Ubuntu versions) I used the free Launchpad build service, but this project rapidly outgrew that service. It rather impedes development to have your rebuild take months to work through the public build queue... So, to summarize: QuickBuild requires powerful servers, lots of power, and loads of disk space. It is also somewhat essential to TDE's somewhat rapid release schedule, serving as a QA check and release management platform. Unfortunately that means the annual cost to run the TDE services is very high, and I don't always have the funding to eliminate all sources of downtime. Thank you to those few that have donated over the years; it has helped in a small way to keep TDE alive. As Lisi said, if everyone donated annually a relatively small amount there would be no real financial concerns and both I and Slavek would have more time to actually work on the reason we are all here -- TDE itself! Thank you, Timothy Pearson Trinity Desktop Project -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlYWmYIACgkQLaxZSoRZrGGJbQDcC8KVpjjkTdNHpcq/KgrzkmsH si5WcIKxViAu6gDfXM2h1ufBHtIlp3Yi7jH7xISsY0CFQhDpMTw2NA== =3ddI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

9 years, 3 months

Slávek's repository

by Lisi Reisz

I have just tried to install TDE, but have been told that Slávek's repository is not accessible. ??? I'll try Tim's for now. Lisi

9 years, 3 months

kmail, imap, ssl issue

by Greg Madden

Trying to setup a clients new email. The new client is imap, user/passwd and ssl port 993 recieving and 465 sending mails. The sending works fine, the receiving says it is checking account xxx for new mail but that is far as it goes. No error messages popup. Never used ssl/tls before do not know where to look for error mressages. Searched the trinity user archives, not much mention of imap/ssl. Thanks -- Greg M

9 years, 3 months

The updated web-site

by Lisi Reisz

I have just been looking at the updated Debian Trinity Repository Installation Instructions page. At the risk of being castigated for my over-enthusiastic vocabulary, it is great!!! Super!!! No doubt all the other pages are super too, but I am willing to take that on trust, if one is, and go to bed. Thank you, Tim. Lisi

9 years, 3 months

TDE service upgrades

by Timothy Pearson

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 All, This is just a quick heads-up to let you know the TDE services will be going down briefly while I diagnose and fix some lingering performance issues. Estimated service restoration is 10/07/2015 20:00 UTC. Thank you for your patience, Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlYVX3sACgkQLaxZSoRZrGHHyQDbBwJI1KoyZgrM1DMwetbBgM2r 4+Sl+JZF8/T0FADgyqfaOLs8Bal9SvSGlA0R8th2HcunDdWXSJdyzw== =GW5T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

9 years, 3 months

Opening encrypted USB disk

by Curt Howland

Well, this is interesting. It looks like Debian's new version is more than just systemd. Trinity v14.0.2 Debian 8 When I plug in an encrypted USB disk, the password window opens as it always did, but now it's complaining about HAL not existing. When I tried to open it through the Konqueror device view, it also failed. Attached are two screen grabs of the failures. I'm not asking for this to be "fixed" in TDE, it seems that the underlying hardware abstraction has changed in some fundamental way. HAL isn't even in the repository for Debian 8. I expect someone will get around to harmonizing this at some point, I'm sure I'm not the only person who has encrypted external disks that used to work seamlessly. The more things change..... Curt- -- The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage. - Thucydides

9 years, 3 months

TDE Powersave "Freeze"

by Thierry de Coulon

Hello all, On my test Ubuntu install on a Thinkpad, TDEPowersave offers "Suspend to RAM" and "Freeze". The first works well and I understand what it does (I get the small "moon crescent" glowing. However, I dont really understand what "Freeze" is supposed to be. It seems it turns the screen, harddisc and WiFi off but Bluetooth stays on... and I don't know what else. Thierry

9 years, 3 months

Re: [trinity-users] Re: Failed to mount SD card [SOLVED] - NOT SOLVED

by ant

On Thu, 01 Oct 2015, ant wrote: > On Thu, 01 Oct 2015, deloptes wrote: > > > > > > > > Thank you for the hint - I didn't have udisks (or udisks2?) installed, so > > > I have installed it, and now I get no desktop icon. > > > But I can mount it from the cli, possibly because I have an fstab entry. > > > But experiments are continuing... > > > > > > > can you check if this somehow applies to you please? > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650299 > > YES! As in the bug report, I edited > /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy > > and set the section '<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount">' to > be '<allow_any>yes</allow_any>' and '<allow_active>yes</allow_active>' > > and now it works as advertised. Thank you. UPDATE: Now it has stopped working. I get an icon, and: -------------- Unable to mount this device. Potential reasons include: Improper device and/or user privilege level Corrupt data on storage device Technical details: org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.PermissionDenied: Not Authorized: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files ps aux gives: kded [tdeinit] --new-startup I am in plugdev. The .policy file is as above. Where next to look? cheers ant -- Sent from my linux system running Debian 8, desktop Trinity R14 This email is plain text, not HTML. Any attachments are either .jpg or .pdf

9 years, 3 months

Porting an app from TDE 3.5.13.2 to TDE R14.0.1

by midi-pascal

Hi, I started to port an KDE 3.5 app (Kooldock) to TDE R14.0.1. I did it years ago for TDE 3.5.13 with minimal trouble and used it since then with no trouble at all. Kooldock is automake and configure based and was developed as a kdevelop project. I have now a new machine (Ubuntu 14.04 64 bits) on which I installed TDE 14.0.1 with the live TDE ISO. I installed all required Trinity development packages. I can run the automake and configure tools inside TDevelop (TDE-C++) successfully so I am ready to build the Kooldock project. The build fails immediately because of the name of include files i.e. kpopupmenu.h -> tqpopupmenu.h and names of classes i.e QString -> TQString. Is there a way (script or utility) to convert existing KDE 3.5 or TDE 3.5.x code to TDE 14.0.1? Or at least, a documented path to port apps to TDE 14.x.? I am a developer, familiar with sed ands awk so I can manage converting the original sources if only I can get a guidance about what becomes what with TDE 14.x. After trying some manual modifications to the sources I feel some changes in include files are not this straightforward. For example some kxxxxxx.h files are now txxxxxx.h, others are now tdexxxxxx.h so porting my favorite application would become a nightmare with no how-to or minimal help. I would like to port the Baghira theme too (I did it for TDE 3.5.13 easily) but I am a bit reluctant to compile one line of code at a time, searching each include file/class name change. I love TDE and will stick to it anyway but I ask for some help here - if possible - Thanks for keeping TDE alive. It is the best DE I ever used (and I tried many, believe me!) And thanks for any feedback too. midi-pascal

9 years, 3 months

Missing task bar on a laptop with a "part time" external monitor

by Tim WIlliams

Hi All, I've got another problem after upgrading to Mageia 5/Trinity r14. When working for clients on-site, I will usually take my own laptop with me and plugin into an external monitor + keyboard while there. I have a script which automatically detects and extends the desktop to the external monitor when I log in. My task bar defaults to the external monitor when present and is shown on the laptop screen when there is no external monitor. This has been working perfectly for years. However, after my latest upgrade, the taskbar no longer displays on the laptop screen if I boot up after having previously used the external monitor, making my desktop unusable. The problem seems to be that the taskbar display is now "fixed" to whichever monitor it was last set to display on, regardless of whether that monitor is actually present or not. The external monitor output isn't actually being enabled due to a mis-detection, there is no signal output on the monitor port and the desktop has not been extended off the visible area of the laptop screen in any way. The only solution I have found so far is to plug into an external monitor, enable that monitor with an extended desktop using my script (which runs xrandr) and manually drag the taskbar back to the laptop screen. This is OK when I have a monitor available, but if I'm out and about with no monitor available, I'm a bit stuck and have to use XFCE instead. Ideally it would be nice if the prior behaviour was restored, but I'd settle for a simple script run during login which can move the taskbar back to the laptop screen every time I login, it's not a big deal to drag back to the external monitor after I login. Is there any way to achieve this? I'm thinking that either there is a command I can issue which will move the taskbar location on demand, or alternatively I could use something (eg sed with a regex?) which re-writes the underlying config setting before the task bar starts (where is the config setting?)! Thanks in anticipation, Tim Williams -- Tim Williams BSc MSc MBCS AutoTrain 58 Jacoby Place Priory Road Edgbaston Birmingham B5 7UW United Kingdom Web : http://www.autotrain.org, http://www.utrain.info Tel : +44 (0)844 487 4117 AutoTrain is a trading name of EuroMotor-AutoTrain LLP Registered in the United Kingdom, number: OC317070.

9 years, 3 months

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