On Sunday 29 March 2015 19:23:54 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Sonntag, 29. März 2015 schrieb Lisi Reisz:
On Sunday 29 March 2015 14:46:51 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Hi Lisi!
Assuming yout TDE-Installation is (almost) sane, please do from the commandline (not terminal in X11):
# aptitude install tdm-trinity
It installed and removed 0 packages!!
# dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity
Complained about a systemd stop daemon. Said, I think, that there was a systemd dm running which I had to stop. Complained, I think, about a lack of a tdm systemd service. Told me, I think, to do: (in order to run stop-daemon?)
start-stop-daemon --help
The result was illegible to me, and therefore incomprehensible.
I am really struggling here. I have lost all my nice enlarged fonts!
# reboot
Thanks, Nik.
Can anyone meake any sense of what I did manage to see and remember?
Lisi
Hi Lisi!
Oooops... systemd madness :-)
Just to make sure I understand right:
- after the reboot: is tdm-trinity running or is it any other display
manager (lightdm, gdm ..)? - you log in using tde-trinity and end up with LXDE instead of TDE?
No. I get an error message that xsession is unable to launch and it is launching the default. I have to click on OK and I end up with LXDE, which I have uninstalled and which <aptitude show> says is not installed. :-/ If you don't believe me, I don't blame you.
# aptitude install tdm-trinity
To reinstall tdm-trinity you could try: # aptitude reinstall tdm-trinity
Have just tried that. I managed to get some of the error message. Please allow for the fact that I could barely see what I was copying, not helped by the sides of the television cutting off the edges of the display. And that I am a lousy typist. There are likely to be errors. That is why I prefer copy and paste. ;-)
The left-hand edge is missing in what follows: ------------------------------------------------------ up tdm-trinity 94:14.0.1~pre21-0debian8.0.0.2~a)... top-daemon:pid value must be a number greater than 0 start-stop-daemon --help for more information
---------------------------------------- I then tried # dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity
I got the following error message, left hand edge missing again: ------------------------------------------
064319]systemd-default-display-manager-generator[1316]:/lib/systemd/system/tdm.service is not a systemd unit. we disable the systemd enabled display manager top-daemon:pid value must be a number greater than 0 start-stop-daemon --help for more information -----------------------------------------------------------
The whole thing is crackers. Since I could reinstall in a couple of hours, from scratch to the point of having configured everything including downloading large mice, is it silly to waste any more of your - or my - time?
a) This time, I shall uninstall LXDE as soon as I have TDE up and running. Ditto I shall uninstall lightdm as soon as I have tdm. I have to have a configurable terminal emulator to install TDE, or I would install without a DE and put just TDE on in the first place.
b) I shall update more often so that I do not have 313 upgrades to cause problems! Though I don't think that it was the number of upgrades that was the problem initially. I forgot to reconfigure the dm before I rebooted.
Thank you very much for all your help Nik.
Lisi