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DCOP error
by Robby Kitchen 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

I just installed TDE R14.0.0 on top of a Xubuntu 14.04 install, going through Synaptic. Everything went very smooth, it was done in just a few minutes and the pc restarted and logged in using the same password I had for Xubuntu, since TDE did not ask me to set a password. I just assumed that is what I needed to use. Everything was going good, I was just going through the Control Center exploring trying to get familiar with the settings, until I came across one, (I don't remember now which one), but it needed a password before I could open it to make changes. I put in the same password I had just used, but got an error message saying that wasn't the right password. Just to be sure I knew what I was doing, I rebooted and logged back in the second time with the Xubuntu password. However I could not get that password to work for anything other than logging in. I even tried to reset my password using that one, but again it said incorrect password. So I did some research on the internet, and found instructions on how to reset a users password, by booting into advanced options and going to the recovery settings, opening a command line, and typing in "password <usenamer>", so I did that and set up another password I would remember easily. Rebooted, got back to log-in screen, put the new password in, and an error msg popped up, something about not being the right password. Then gave me an error about "DCOP server error no read access to $home unable to start". I restarted tried the old password, and the new password both about three times, while searching the internet on another pc, trying to troubleshoot and find the problem, I didn't find very much and what I did find, didn't work; I tried going back into advanced start options and change password back, it failed, saying that it wasn't secure enough. I completely understand the need to keep things and people safe, and not everybody needs access to certain parts of the OS, however I feel that if I don't want a password, I should not be forced to use one. The whole point of Linux is to use what you like, and not be forced to do what someone you've never me thinks you should do. I could use a different D/E, that wouldn't require a password for anything but the terminal, but then it wouldn't be TDE. I used TDE for about 3 weeks a long time ago, then Ubuntu upgraded and TDE was no longer supported, because a different file system or something was used, and when I emailed the support people, I was told it probably wouldn't be upgraded, At least that what the email I got said. So I have just been checking in periodically to see if it ever came back up, and was very happy to see it had. . I really like TDE, so I am hoping I can find an easy fix for this. I installed it last night just before gong to bed, so it's been installed less than 12 hours right now, it wouldn't be a big deal to reinstall from here. Other than being annoying and aggregating. Has anyone seen this error, and know how to correct it? I searched google for a while before writing in, and could not find anything that actually works for me. I generally avoid this kind of issue since it's very easy to bork a system, if your not careful. Thank You Robby Kitchen

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501 Redirect to invalid target
by Roel Wagenaar 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

L.S. For the last week I keep getting a '501 Redirect to invalid target' on updateing the repository via http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian wheezy main is this a known problem? -- Roel Wagenaar, Linux-User #469851 with the Linux Counter; http://linuxcounter.net/ Antw.: Omdat het de volgorde verstoord waarin mensen tekst lezen. Vraag: Waarom is top-posting een slechte gewoonte? Antw.: Top-posting. Vraag: Wat is het meest ergerlijke in e-mail? Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.

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Timeouts and/or mirror
by rolf 03 Jan '15

03 Jan '15

Hi, first of all I wish everybody out there a happy and successfull new year and happy hacking. Now my questions: I get a lot of timeouts when I try to update trinity. Mostly because "Translation"-files where not be found. Are they really needed? Second I would to know, if there are mirrors of the trinity repositories, perhaps faster ones near by. Fine regards Rolf

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Re: [trinity-users] Libreoffice interface problem in R14
by Thierry de Coulon 03 Jan '15

03 Jan '15

On Saturday 03 January 2015 15.21:04 Robin Collins wrote: > <html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: > 12.0px;"><div> <div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"> > <div>I have installed R14 direct from the Ubuntu live CD - overall it seems > very stable compared with earlier versions, no crash boxes at all!!!</div> (snip)  </div> > > <div>Does it make any difference that the GTK-3 setings show that the > gtk3-tqt engine is not installed when it is??</div> > > <div> </div> > > <div>I know it seems a small point but it is driving me nuts as R14 is just > so much quicker and nicer to use than MATE, Xfce etc. so any help or clues > would be very welcome.</div> > > <div> </div> > > <div>Robin</div> > </div> > </div></div></body></html> a) Could you please turn off HTML? That's *very* painful to read b) I don't use Ubuntu, but I have LO running on R14/Wheezy and no UI problem, so your problem must be Ubuuntu-related and not TDe-related. By the way, I installed LO from the LO site, so maybe your problem is caused by settings chosen by Ubuntu that now are no more satisfied? Regards, Thierry

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secure desktop area popup
by David Emerson 02 Jan '15

02 Jan '15

When I use my kvm switch to switch to another computer (well .. it is actually just K/M, I have video monitors attached to both so I can see both) then TDE puts up the "secure desktop area" dialog, hiding my desktop. It says <username> is currently logged on, and gives options for Lock Session, Task Manager, Logoff, Menu, Cancel. How can I disable this "secure desktop area" dialog? I never want to see it again. If I switch my keyboard and mouse away from this computer, I want to continue to see whatever was showing before. Thanks! ~David.

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Ubuntu 14.04 TDE live CD problem
by Dan Youngquist 02 Jan '15

02 Jan '15

(the live CD on the website) The contents of Firefox's URL bar, instead of showing the text of the URL, shows a black and/or gray bar where the text should be. The text is still there -- it can be selected and copied -- it just can't be seen. This happens both when running from the live CD, and after installation. Everything else (having to do with the display, and otherwise) works fine and is perfectly normal. The problem doesn't occur when running from the Xubuntu 14.04 live CD. Is there a way to fix it? Thanks. -- PGP key: http://homestead-products.com/pubkey.htm

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adept-notifier-trinity does not show green dot in system tray
by Ken Heard 31 Dec '14

31 Dec '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The green dot was shown in the system tray before I activated my printer (HP LaserJet P1102) but not after printer activation. To activate the printer I looked at http://hplipopensource.com/ It told me that although the ppd for that printer is available in the version of hplip shipped with Wheezy (3.12.6-3.1+deb7u1), if I used the later version of hplip (3.14.10) I would benefit from ¨access to new features and bug fixes¨. So I downloaded that version and ran the command to install the later version of hplip. It wanted to install some additional packages but noticed that adept was installed and asked me to remove it before it would install them. I therefore purged all the eleven (?) trinity adept packages and their dependencies. Hplip installed some of those packages, but could not install two because of broken dependencies and then two more which did not exist. I then gave up trying to use hplip 3.14.10 and ran the two commands necessary to install the ppd from the hplip version in Wheezy, 'hp-plugin -i' and 'hp-setup -i'. The printer was consequently activated and usable. (In retrospect I should have disregarded the advice received.) I then reinstalled the eleven trinity adept packages including adept-notifier-trinity, but the green dot did not appear. Two reboots later it still has not reappeared. The only thing I could think of doing was to run deborphan and purge all orphaned libraries. After doing so the green dot still did not appear. I would consequently appreciate any advice on how to get adept to work properly again. Regards, Ken Heard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlSk+3EACgkQlNlJzOkJmTeA4wCaAqJOaAwlYvAPnGT1v47pWF9T OzsAniPpjcZcfPkCjBQbFTakqcrKYqeT =JTl4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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kdepowersave
by Werner Joss 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

so, well, today I also upgraded my good ols eeepc701 to r14 (from 3.5.13), not without some trouble (had to issue aptitude dist-upgrade several times), but finally, ran through and most things seem to work. unfortunately, kdepowersave stopped working. whien started from the cli, I get this: kpowersave --force-acpi-check kpowersave: WARNING: Acquire org.freedesktop.Policy.Power interface failed with error: Connection ":1.13" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.Policy.Power" due to security policies in the configuration file kpowersave: WARNING: HAL is not ready. We will try later... kpowersave: ERROR: Can't connect to HAL kpowersave: ERROR: Could not connect to HAL kpowersave: WARNING: HAL is not ready. We will try later... kpowersave: WARNING: HAL is not ready. We will try later... kpowersave: WARNING: HAL is not ready. We will try later... kpowersave: WARNING: HAL is not ready. We will try later... kpowersave: WARNING: HAL is not ready. We will try later... kpowersave: ERROR: This machine does not support ACPI, APM, PMU, CPUFreq, Suspend2Disk nor Suspend2RAM. Please close KPowersave now. ERROR: Communication problem with kpowersave, it probably crashed. so, seems to be related to hal. anyone got an idea how to fix this (OS is debian wheezy). Werner

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kabc/tdeabc
by Thierry de Coulon 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

Sorry to start another thread - deleted the previous one. I had an installation that I upgraded to R14. I can confirm that not only the kabc folder is neither copied nor renames to tdeabc, but actually tdeabc does not exist at all until one first starts kmail (maybe one must even start the address book). Once I got the empty address book, copying the content of kabc did the trick. Regards, Thierry

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backpedal to r14.0.0
by Felmon Davis 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

folks, I just noticed I'm up to r14.0.1 [development] on one of my laptops; what is the best way to downgrade to r14.0.0? F. -- Felmon Davis The way out is never as easy as the way in.

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