15 Jul
2018
15 Jul
'18
3:38 a.m.
On Saturday 14 July 2018 17:15:02 Nick Koretsky wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 02:04:07 +0200
Stefan Krusche <linux(a)stefan-krusche.de> wrote:
Sorry, got to add my 2 cents' worth here. I believe that this must be a Devuan
bug; there could be problems with slim and tdm-trinity, although I think it
is immaterial to my point here.
The reason I would trace it to Devuan is that I only ever ran apt-get
dist-upgrade; I never tried to install slim or xfce, nor libreoffice, etc.,
but these were installed automatically. I had assumed, wrongly, that I would
get only upgrades of what was already installed.
For about three months previously, I had made no changes whatsoever to my
system, except periodically to run apt-get dist-upgrade; then suddenly I get
these extra packages installed. That's why I say it must be a Devuan bug, and
maybe a recent bug.
It looks like some of us need to join a Devuan mailing list, as well.
Bill
Am Sonntag, 15. Juli 2018 schrieb Nick Koretsky:
Yep i missed the case with reinstalling slim while tdm is a default. That
change to slim cannot happen as a result if tdm-trinity bug. It is also
cannot be a bug in slim because a change happens while reinstalling
tdm. This is a bug in debconf probably but maybe in dpkg. Well
theoretically there is a possibility that there are bugs in both slim and
tdm-trinity packages...
> Also I found an old bug report (#36) on trinity bugzilla[1] which
> described the same problem with gdm and kdm-kde3 packages and which had
> been closed "due to lack of response". That assured me somehow of having
> run into the same one.
>
> > than this is a bug in dpkg (probably devuan one, as i dont have this
> > problem on stretch). Report this to devuan.
>
> The slim package has been adopted by devuan. After all, I think you're
> right. Thanks again. Um, no. This 99% not trinity bug. Your test
result indicate bug in
either in dpkg or debconf, and considering i dont have this problem on
debian stretch it is probably a devuan introduced bug.
I think I misunderstood your previous mail on 04.07.2018 from which I
concluded after I did the testing that it is a bug in tdm-trinity install
scripts.
If it changed to slim - Force reinstall slim.
If default dm remained slim after that than this is a bug in
tdm-trinity install scripts, create a bug report in trinity bugzilla.
That is what happened in all my tests.
If it changed back to tdm-trinity
That happened in none of my tests.