On Saturday 31 of December 2016 21:50:44 L.S. McCarty wrote:
Hello to all.
I'm a long-time TDE user running TDE 14.0.4 amd64 on Debian 9.x Stretch (unstable, actually Siduction, using systemd). It works well, although I occasionally run into minor issues that I eventually solve. It is after all "unstable".
Over the last few weeks a problem remains, binutils_2.27-9_amd64.deb works fine, but several updates of this program which can be loaded by itself, most recently binutils_2.27.90.201612331-1_amd64.deb, all render the system unbootable.
The boot cycle proceeds from sda1 without any errors but the tdm signon comes up with a black background rather the normal blue TDE one. When I logon I get an error message and TDE does not load, showing a problem with my home partition on sda5:
Could not read connection list /home/lsm1/.DCOPserver_LSM1_0 Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running
When I hit Enter I then get:
Could not start tdeinit, Check your installation.
This problem is specific to TDE as I can still load the backup desktop LXQT by the usual logon from the TDE signon box.
When I boot to the console and downgrade to binutils_2.27-9_amd64.deb everything works as usual on the reboot.
If anyone has any possible solutions I'd be happy to try them out and report back.
If you want to use TDE on Stretch or Sid it is a good choice to use Preliminary Stable Builds repository:
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Preliminary_Stable_Builds
For Stretch (binutils 2.27.90.20161220) and Sid (binutils 2.27.90.20161231) is updated today.
Cheers