Hi guys,
New problem ! Following an upgrade to Debian Jessie, TDE 14 Desktop, when booting up, everything is fine until the machine gets to "Loading the Desktop". At this point it seems to hang for a minute or so before becoming a blank blue screen with only the mouse cursor present. From here the only thing that can be done is to select VT1 and login manually, typing "startx" gets to the Desktop.
I've noticed that only VT1 will get to the Desktop and all the other terminals except VT8 leave you with a blue background, whilst VT8 now has just a tiny blinking cursor on a black screen which has no response to anything.
Where do I need to look in order to put things back to normal ?
Thanks in advance.
On Sunday 19 April 2015 12:11:47 Baron wrote:
Hi guys,
New problem ! Following an upgrade to Debian Jessie, TDE 14 Desktop, when booting up, everything is fine until the machine gets to "Loading the Desktop". At this point it seems to hang for a minute or so before becoming a blank blue screen with only the mouse cursor present. From here the only thing that can be done is to select VT1 and login manually, typing "startx" gets to the Desktop.
I've noticed that only VT1 will get to the Desktop and all the other terminals except VT8 leave you with a blue background, whilst VT8 now has just a tiny blinking cursor on a black screen which has no response to anything.
Where do I need to look in order to put things back to normal ?
Thanks in advance.
I've got display manager problems with TDE 14 on Jessie, after an upgrade where I stupidly rebooted before running dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity. Problem solving was taking so much time that I am living with it until I have the opportunity to reinstall.
Mine emergency boots into LXDE, which I uninstalled and which <aptitude show> and <aptitude search> both say is not there. To use the American term, I hope correctly, go figure.
Lisi
On Sunday 19 April 2015 07:28:53 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Sunday 19 April 2015 12:11:47 Baron wrote:
Hi guys,
New problem ! Following an upgrade to Debian Jessie, TDE 14 Desktop, when booting up, everything is fine until the machine gets to "Loading the Desktop". At this point it seems to hang for a minute or so before becoming a blank blue screen with only the mouse cursor present. From here the only thing that can be done is to select VT1 and login manually, typing "startx" gets to the Desktop.
I've noticed that only VT1 will get to the Desktop and all the other terminals except VT8 leave you with a blue background, whilst VT8 now has just a tiny blinking cursor on a black screen which has no response to anything.
Where do I need to look in order to put things back to normal ?
Thanks in advance.
I've got display manager problems with TDE 14 on Jessie, after an upgrade where I stupidly rebooted before running dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity. Problem solving was taking so much time that I am living with it until I have the opportunity to reinstall.
Mine emergency boots into LXDE, which I uninstalled and which <aptitude show> and <aptitude search> both say is not there. To use the American term, I hope correctly, go figure.
Lisi
That is about as correct a usage as you'll see. And a problem that I hope is fixed by the official Jessie release.
Is this "dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity" the whole fix?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Hi Gene,
On Sunday 19 April 2015 16:26:25 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 19 April 2015 07:28:53 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Sunday 19 April 2015 12:11:47 Baron wrote:
Hi guys,
New problem ! Following an upgrade to Debian Jessie, TDE 14 Desktop, when booting up, everything is fine until the machine gets to "Loading the Desktop". At this point it seems to hang for a minute or so before becoming a blank blue screen with only the mouse cursor present. From here the only thing that can be done is to select VT1 and login manually, typing "startx" gets to the Desktop.
I've noticed that only VT1 will get to the Desktop and all the other terminals except VT8 leave you with a blue background, whilst VT8 now has just a tiny blinking cursor on a black screen which has no response to anything.
Where do I need to look in order to put things back to normal ?
Thanks in advance.
I've got display manager problems with TDE 14 on Jessie, after an upgrade where I stupidly rebooted before running dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity. Problem solving was taking so much time that I am living with it until I have the opportunity to reinstall.
Mine emergency boots into LXDE, which I uninstalled and which <aptitude show> and <aptitude search> both say is not there. To use the American term, I hope correctly, go figure.
Lisi
That is about as correct a usage as you'll see. And a problem that I hope is fixed by the official Jessie release.
Is this "dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity" the whole fix?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
I tried running that command and got a message about a PID of 0 and having to specify a PID. In any event nothing useful came of it.
On Sunday 19 April 2015 13:03:55 Baron wrote:
Hi Gene,
Is this "dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity" the whole fix?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
I tried running that command and got a message about a PID of 0 and having to specify a PID. In any event nothing useful came of it.
That is I believe correct. What its telling you is that it will run only as root (PID 0) And, since root doesn't normally fix user problems caused by a miss-config in the users own X startups, is why I asked if that was the whole of the fix in this case.
I'd not normally expect it to be. However Lisi hasn't replied yet, I assume because the machine is being contankerous.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Hi Gene,
On Sunday 19 April 2015 19:32:05 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 19 April 2015 13:03:55 Baron wrote:
Hi Gene,
Is this "dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity" the whole fix?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
I tried running that command and got a message about a PID of 0 and having to specify a PID. In any event nothing useful came of it.
That is I believe correct. What its telling you is that it will run only as root (PID 0) And, since root doesn't normally fix user problems caused by a miss-config in the users own X startups, is why I asked if that was the whole of the fix in this case.
Thankyou for that interesting bit of info, I hadn't understood what that message was trying to tell me.
I've just had to go through the VT1 steps to get back to a useable desktop. I've also noticed that a number of things no longer work when I login this way.
I'd not normally expect it to be. However Lisi hasn't replied yet, I assume because the machine is being contankerous.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Thanks:
Hi Lisi,
Thanks fo your reply.
On Sunday 19 April 2015 12:28:53 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Sunday 19 April 2015 12:11:47 Baron wrote:
Hi guys,
New problem ! Following an upgrade to Debian Jessie, TDE 14 Desktop, when booting up, everything is fine until the machine gets to "Loading the Desktop". At this point it seems to hang for a minute or so before becoming a blank blue screen with only the mouse cursor present. From here the only thing that can be done is to select VT1 and login manually, typing "startx" gets to the Desktop.
I've noticed that only VT1 will get to the Desktop and all the other terminals except VT8 leave you with a blue background, whilst VT8 now has just a tiny blinking cursor on a black screen which has no response to anything.
Where do I need to look in order to put things back to normal ?
Thanks in advance.
I've got display manager problems with TDE 14 on Jessie, after an upgrade where I stupidly rebooted before running dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity. Problem solving was taking so much time that I am living with it until I have the opportunity to reinstall.
Mine emergency boots into LXDE, which I uninstalled and which <aptitude show> and <aptitude search> both say is not there. To use the American term, I hope correctly, go figure.
Lisi
As far as I am aware LXDE has never been installed on this machine ! Though you having mentioned it, I looked through the menu on the login screen and clicked on TDE and then Login. Behold the machine started up as normal. At this moment I don't know if I'm going to have to do this every time or if its just a one off. It is not normal behaviour at all, and I haven't seen anything in the logfiles that would give me a clue.
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