Hello all,
Debian 9 here. Today I updated things (I used synaptic - Mark all upgrades. That was perhaps an error). Many things got updated, included Trinity stuff.
The problem is it also reverted the DM to gdm3. I changed it to /opt/trinity/bin/tdm, but the result is that the system does not start, with
Failed to start Gnome Display Manager See 'systemctl status gdm.service' for details
Is there a way to get TDM back?
Thierry
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 11:55:14PM +0100, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
Failed to start Gnome Display Manager See 'systemctl status gdm.service' for details
Is there a way to get TDM back?
Well, what does systemctl status gdm.service say?
On Wednesday 10 January 2018 00.35:39 Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 11:55:14PM +0100, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
Failed to start Gnome Display Manager See 'systemctl status gdm.service' for details
Is there a way to get TDM back?
Well, what does systemctl status gdm.service say?
I don't know because at that point my system doesn't take any input...
Thierry
On Wednesday 10 January 2018 01.25:49 deloptes wrote:
Thierry de Coulon wrote:
I changed it to /opt/trinity/bin/tdm
how did you change it?
I directly edited /etc/X11/default-display-manager.
That was the error (but I think it worked in pre-systemd time?)
does it boot normally if you pass init=/lib/sysvinit/init to the command line (if you have sysvinit installed)?
no
can you boot to rescue or single user ?
no. you're stuck at the error message (I did not try to log in another tty because I have a secondary system so I used that to change the file back)
This morning I googled systemd change DM and got the answer: at least with systemd you must use dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity.
Thanks,
Thierry
Thierry de Coulon wrote:
This morning I googled systemd change DM and got the answer: at least with systemd you must use dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity.
yes - this is the correct way to do it, so does it work now for you? If yes, perhaps you can tag this topic as closed :)
regards
On Wednesday 10 January 2018 09.52:48 deloptes wrote:
Thierry de Coulon wrote:
This morning I googled systemd change DM and got the answer: at least with systemd you must use dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity.
yes - this is the correct way to do it, so does it work now for you?
yep
If yes, perhaps you can tag this topic as closed :)
Well - how d'you do that :() Can't find any such function in kmail
regards
Cheers,
Thierry
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