14 Jul
2018
14 Jul
'18
10:03 p.m.
On Saturday 14 July 2018 14:38:56 Stefan Krusche wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2018 schrieb Nick Koretsky:
From these details, I assume that you are running Devuan. I was just about to
write something about similar problems that I have had over the past week or
ten days. When I run apt-get dist-upgrade (running Devuan), it installs slim
and xfce (neither of which I want), as well as libreoffice packages (which I
also don't want, as I prefer OpenOffice). When I tried to get rid of these
items and reinstall only OpenOffice and tdm-trinity as my default dm, I ended
up with a system that booted, then halted at a login prompt; I tried to
login, but neither user nor root logins worked, and I couldn't boot into
failsafe or anything else that worked.
On the whole, Devuan runs much faster than Debian, and also my system doesn't
hang. I started having these and other problems, and returned for the moment
to Debian Jessie, which runs okay, but hangs a lot, and when I try to reboot
seems to get permanently stuck on some stuff called rpcbind and watchdog.
(Also I note that systemd is always doing something, don't know what.)
I am contemplating some kind of FrankenDebian hack (or rather, FrankenDevuan).
I seem to recall that somebody mentioned that sysvinit could be installed,
and systemd purged, on a Debian system. The do upgrades from the Debian
repositories, but keep sysvinit and avoid the systemd problems.
Any ideas, guys?
Bill
Ok, this looks normal. At this point if you want
to track down the bug, i
suggest following:
Force reinstall tdm-trinity (unless you clean apt-cache the package is
in /var/cache/apt/archives, just dpkg -i the last version.
Okay, I tested that. Here are the results:
Summary:
Installing either slim or tdm-trinity overwrites the default display
manager to /usr/bin/slim not depending on the way I changed default dm,
manually or with dpkg-reconfigure.
Note: dpkg-reconfigure slim says:
Please be sure to run "dpkg --configure tdm-trinity".
But also after doing so, the faulty behavior persists. See below.
So, I should create a bug report in trinity bugzilla, I think.
Kind regards,
Stefan
Test results:
Reinstalling tdm-trinity:
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/opt/trinity/bin/tdm
$ sudo dpkg -i tdm-trinity_4%3a14.0.5~pre42-0debian9.0.0+6_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 156996 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack tdm-trinity_4%3a14.0.5~pre42-0debian9.0.0+6_amd64.deb
... Unpacking tdm-trinity (4:14.0.5~pre42-0debian9.0.0+6) over
(4:14.0.5~pre42-0debian9.0.0+6) ...
Setting up tdm-trinity (4:14.0.5~pre42-0debian9.0.0+6) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/usr/bin/slim
Result: The default display manager got changed to slim again.
$ sudo dpkg -i slim_1.3.6-5.1+devuan2_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 156996 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack slim_1.3.6-5.1+devuan2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking slim (1.3.6-5.1+devuan2) over (1.3.6-5.1+devuan2) ...
Setting up slim (1.3.6-5.1+devuan2) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/slim/themes/default to
provide /usr/share/slim/themes/desktop-slim-theme (desktop-slim-theme) in
auto mode
[ ok ] Reloading system message bus config...done.
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/usr/bin/slim
Result: default display manager is slim as before
Reinstalling tdm-trinity -- /etc/X11/default-display-manager not changed:
$ sudo dpkg -i tdm-trinity_4%3a14.0.5~pre42-0debian9.0.0+6_amd64.deb
[...] (same as above)
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/usr/bin/slim
(Manually) changed /etc/X11/default-display-manager back to tdm-trinity
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/opt/trinity/bin/tdm
and reinstalled slim:
$ sudo dpkg -i slim_1.3.6-5.1+devuan2_amd64.deb
[...] (same as above)
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/usr/bin/slim
Result: installing slim changed default display manager to slim !
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/opt/trinity/bin/tdm
$ sudo dpkg -i tdm-trinity_4%3a14.0.5~pre42-0debian9.0.0+6_amd64.deb
[...] (same as above)
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/usr/bin/slim
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure slim
Please be sure to run "dpkg --configure tdm-trinity".
[ ok ] Reloading system message bus config...done.
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/opt/trinity/bin/tdm
$ sudo dpkg -i tdm-trinity_4%3a14.0.5~pre42-0debian9.0.0+6_amd64.deb
[...] (same as above)
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/usr/bin/slim
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure slim
Please be sure to run "dpkg --configure tdm-trinity".
[ ok ] Reloading system message bus config...done.
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/opt/trinity/bin/tdm
$ sudo dpkg -i tdm-trinity_4%3a14.0.5~pre42-0debian9.0.0+6_amd64.deb
[...] (same as above)
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/usr/bin/slim
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure slim
Please be sure to run "dpkg --configure tdm-trinity".
[ ok ] Reloading system message bus config...done.
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/opt/trinity/bin/tdm
$ sudo dpkg -i slim_1.3.6-5.1+devuan2_amd64.deb
[...] (same as above)
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/usr/bin/slim