On Tuesday 31 December 2019 12:26:17 pm Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings all;
I updated tde about 2 hours ago, 300+ files.
Its totally fscked, defaulting to xfce4 and nothing but a tiny terminal works. But that terminal is enough to get more started.
Can't find kmail from the xfce4 menu but kmail is what it reports it cannot find so $path is screwed.
I've gone single and tried to relink default-display back to /opt/trinity/bin/tdm, failed. Tried to reset it in /etc/default, failed. Tried just about everthiing including re-installing the trinty-base & twm/tdm stuffs. no luck
I finally found /opt/trinity/bin/kmail and have it running but no clue if I can send this.
How in tuncket do I restore my default desktop to tde now??? I asccidently touched the folder icon, it opened a huge requester asnd froze everthing but gkrellm which I had found and started so I could see if the robots were DDOSing me, so I had to re-start it with the front panel reset button.
I likely have the whole thing to fix as right now its cycleing back and forth as its starting x with a tde login but clears that screen and eventually starts xfce4. And here come the damned bots, so I gotta get iptables running.
Thanks for any help. debian stretch on amd64 if that helps.
Gene I feel your pain, been there, hated it...
Everyone who hasn’t updated yet, make sure to do a full disk clone of your OS and Home dir disks!
General Instructions:
- Make and Boot into a Live CD/USB - Mount an external disk [bigger than your OS and Home disk(s)]
- Command prompt (root) - - fdisk -l # (Identify your partition information) - - blockdev --getbsz {partition} # (Find your block size) - - Use dd to clone the entire OS and Home disk(s) to a file on the external drive. *
* Do NOT use noerror * If you’ve never used dd before, read 3 to 6 web guides first!
Best All, Michael
PS: Gene, my best guess for a fix at your point is to make a backup of your home dir, do a full wipe, and then full reinstall. I have some partial scripts I use to re-integrate the old home dir into the new home dir, send me a mail if you want them.