5 Nov
2011
5 Nov
'11
12:22 p.m.
On 05/11/11 08:21, Greg Madden wrote:
FYI,
I have been using TDE 3.5.13 nightlies in Virtualbox, Debian Squeeze host, it was
working great,
I decided to upgrade my workstation, TDE 3.5.12 to 3.5.13, Debian Squeeze from the
nightlies server.
Failed miserably. the upgrade/install went without a hitch, but upon starting,
KDM-Trinity would crash. Never got a login scren. Removing desktop-base-trinity
made it possible to get a login screen. Logging in I get an error 'kdeinit
failed to start' so no TDE apps worked.
I run dual monitors and after the upgrade only one monitor would work. I have a
custom xorg.conf file that has been working for several releases of Debian, it
seems TDE 3.5.13 handlles X differently than 3.5.12.
All in all the most trouble I have ever had on a Debian box. I purged 3.5.13 and
re-installed 3.5.12.
In my case, I got the wrong impression from the virtualbox install.
Peace,
Greg
3 machines; HD installs and various virtualbox setups running 3.5.13 so
far flawlessly here.
How did you do this upgrade? Got the latest Squeeze updates installed
first? Proprietary graphics drivers? The old custom xorg.conf sounds
suspect.
I use only apt-get (apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade) Nik is
absolutely right, any major upgrade in X is asking for trouble, maybe
that should be clarified in any official TDE upgrade instructions.
It's probably best to do just the squeeze updates first and reboot,
there could be a new kernel, new xorg... proprietary graphics drivers
might need reinstalling before X will run
Regards,
David