On Tuesday 31 December 2019 20:49:33 Slávek Banko wrote:
On Wednesday 01 of January 2020 01:44:44 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 31 December 2019 18:45:46 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 31 December 2019 18:26:24 Felix Miata wrote:
Gene Heskett composed on 2019-12-31 13:26 (UTC-0500):
Thanks for any help. debian stretch on amd64 if that helps.
1-Make sure tdm-trinity is installed and configured.
2-Purge lightdm, sddm, kdm, gdm and any other dm you can find besides tdm.
Did that, now the dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity kills the xsession and restarts xfce4 w/o presenting a choice menu, it just restartx xfce4 And now I've got 10 minutes or more getting everything restarted. grrr.
3-Make sure /etc/X11/default-display-manager exists and contains /opt/trinity/bin/tdm.
It exists, and does contain the above.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Got it, re-installed the heart of tde, 20 or so files with gksudo synaptic, ran the dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity again, no errors I hadn't seen before.
logged out, in due time the tdm login showed up, this time with a real window manager menu. Default (last session) checked, switched it to tde, clicked on login and everything seems back to normal.
But the damned bots are back to DDOSing me. Its one of the cz bots, and while iptables claims its running and that address is shown as dropped, it also is not incrementing ANY of the counters. I guess pita that it is restarting everything, its time for a full shutdown reboot.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Hi Gene,
now I realized one potential problem when updating from a previous version: During the tdm-trinity upgrade, the previous version of the package performs an unwanted removal of the init script /etc/init.d/tdm. If your system uses init scripts, this can be a critical issue. The best way to get the init script back is:
apt-get purge tdm-trinity && apt-get install tdm-trinity
I did re-installs, probably not exactly the same, but I do now have a tdm file in /etc/init.d. And I seem to be working ok after an extra full power down boot. Fingers crossed of coarse. Thanks Slavec.
Cheers
Cheers, Gene Heskett