[tde-users] TDE does not open

Sometime since 2023-11-10, when it was created, an email thread with this title disappeared from my email client. Fortunately I had the presence of mind to copy to a text file the contents of that thread; so the content was not lost. Three people also contributed to this thread, Mike Bird, Thierry de Coulon and Peter. I hope that they at least still have that that thread so they will know what it am talking about in this posting, as it is a continuation of that thread and would not have been possible without their collective help. I was able to download from the desktop computer a copy of file ‘.xsession-errors’. It is attached to this posting, all 924 linesof it, with the title ‘TDE-xsession-errors.odt’, no more dot and everybody has permission to read it. Interestingly enough, the ‘.xsession-errors’ file for the laptop contains only 894 lines. After examining the desktop .xsession-errors of all the possibility for errors which could cause TDE not to open, I was able to identify only one, the UID. The .xsession-errors used 1001 as the UID. At some point I changed my default UID from 1001 to 1000. (The UID on the .xsession-errors for the laptop is and always was 1000.) In view of the foregoing I think the best thing for me to do now is to reinstall Bookworm and TDE completely. For Thierry’s information both computers have four partitions, boot/efi, root (/), /var and /home which is encrypted. I no longer have a swap; I had them since 2008 in several computers – but never were they ever used. ‘Partition’ /tmp is now part of tmpfs and set up as so by a line in the /etc/fstab file. In retrospect, the original message – Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full ?). Check your installation. – was misleading. If my analysis herein is correct a full temporary directory is not the issue. The command lnusertemp, if it is a command, could refer to a UID number; which it could not do for the desktop but could for the laptop. One final comment. I will not be able to do the reinstalments before 26 November. I will report results when done. Regards, Ken Heard