19 Dec
2021
19 Dec
'21
10:07 p.m.
On Sunday 19 December 2021 18:38:36 you wrote:
Hello Michele,
You are the alone member who answers me, many thanks.
The problem comes back again when I open a terminal konsole
in mode root with icon tde-desktop : "run as different user" : root
# dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity
"Failed to start tdm.service: Unit tdm.service has a bad unit file setting.
See system logs and 'systemctl status tdm.service' for details".
/etc/systemd/system/tdm.service:10: Neither a valid executable name nor an
abso...
tdm.service: Unit configuration has fatal error, unit will not be started.
tdm.service - Trinity Display Manager
Loaded: bad-setting (Reason: Unit tdm.service has a bad unit file setting.)
Active: inactive (dead)
I changed tdm.service file with the text of link above : idem.
In /run/user/1000/ I see :
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? doc
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? gvfs
Impossible to delete these 2 folders.
# cd doc or gvfs
"bash: cd: doc: permission not granted#
"bash: cd: gvfs: permission not granted#
I tried everything, I will give up tommorow to reinstall completely a new
system Bullseye and tde-desktop, I cannot pass too much time.
I think that the migration Buster to Bullseye went badly.
Thanks again for your kind help. Cheers
André
Hi André,
TGW is the TDE Gitea Workspace, that is where the code is hosted and
where the devs work :-)
The tdm.service file for debian can be found here:
https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdebase/src/branch/master/t…
The problem is
the file with these rights and user :
/run/user/1000/ICEautorithy rw root root
I correct by :
/run/user/1000/ICEautorithy rw-rw-r andre andre
or I delete the file.
The file should be own by your own user. If it is owned by
root and this is
repeatable, probably something else is wrong. It could be the fact you
login as root and start things as root after killing tdm, difficult
to say for sure.
Try to go step by step:
1) get the right tdm.service file, so tdm is started in the right sequence
2) remove /run/user/1000/* files
3) *reboot*! Don't just start things from root
4) see what happens and let us know.
dcopserver not working is probably just a consequence of the above problems. 
19 Dec
19 Dec
10:15 p.m.
New subject: TDE, error messages
On Sunday 19 December 2021 14:07:10 ajh-valmer wrote:
On Sunday 19 December 2021 18:38:36 you wrote:
Hello Michele,
You are the alone member who answers me, many thanks.
The problem comes back again when I open a terminal konsole
in mode root with icon tde-desktop : "run as different user" : root
# dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity
"Failed to start tdm.service: Unit tdm.service has a bad unit file setting.
See system logs and 'systemctl status tdm.service' for details".
/etc/systemd/system/tdm.service:10: Neither a valid executable name nor an
abso...
tdm.service: Unit configuration has fatal error, unit will not be started.
tdm.service - Trinity Display Manager
Loaded: bad-setting (Reason: Unit tdm.service has a bad unit file setting.)
Active: inactive (dead)
I changed tdm.service file with the text of link above : idem.
In /run/user/1000/ I see :
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? doc
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? gvfs
Impossible to delete these 2 folders.
# cd doc or gvfs
"bash: cd: doc: permission not granted#
"bash: cd: gvfs: permission not granted#
I tried everything, I will give up tommorow to reinstall completely a new
system Bullseye and tde-desktop, I cannot pass too much time.
I think that the migration Buster to Bullseye went badly.
Thanks again for your kind help. Cheers
André
It's not that nobody here wants to answer; it is instead difficult to tell
from your descriptions just what is the problem.
This is just a shot in the dark, but a couple things you say are vaguely
familiar. If I am completely wrong, please ignore this message!
Have you installed desktop-base-trinity? It is possible to install tdm-trinity
and other TDE packages, yet still miss this one. If not, install it, and make
sure that you uninstall desktop-base, which comflicts with the TDE version.
Then make sure that you run sudo dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity
desktop-base-trinity.
Your problems with dcop also sound familiar, but I cannot recall how I solved
that one.
yours
Bill
Hi André,
TGW is the TDE Gitea Workspace, that is where the code is hosted and
where the devs work :-)
The tdm.service file for debian can be found here:
https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdebase/src/branch/master/t
dm/tdm.service.debian.cmake
The
problem is the file with these rights and user :
/run/user/1000/ICEautorithy rw root root
I correct by :
/run/user/1000/ICEautorithy rw-rw-r andre andre
or I delete the file.
The file should be own by your own user. If it is owned by root and this
is repeatable, probably something else is wrong. It could be the fact you
login as root and start things as root after killing tdm, difficult to
say for sure.
Try to go step by step:
1) get the right tdm.service file, so tdm is started in the right
sequence 2) remove /run/user/1000/* files
3) *reboot*! Don't just start things from root
4) see what happens and let us know.
dcopserver not working is probably just a consequence of the above
problems. 
21 Dec
21 Dec
6:30 a.m.
New subject: TDE, error messages
Hi André,
The problem comes back again when I open a terminal
konsole
in mode root with icon tde-desktop : "run as different user" : root
So, in first place are you able to login as normal user correctly? Given you said you open
a Konsole I assume you are.
# dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity
"Failed to start tdm.service: Unit tdm.service has a bad unit file setting.
See system logs and 'systemctl status tdm.service' for details".
/etc/systemd/system/tdm.service:10: Neither a valid executable name nor an
abso...
tdm.service: Unit configuration has fatal error, unit will not be started.
tdm.service - Trinity Display Manager
Loaded: bad-setting (Reason: Unit tdm.service has a bad unit file setting.)
Active: inactive (dead)
First, you shouldn't reconfigure tdm-trinity from within a Trinity session, you should
switch to a terminal command line
(not Konsole).
Second I noticed that you systemctl mention the file
"/etc/systemd/system/tdm.service". In Debian bookworm the
tdm.service file is located in "/lib/systemd/system/" folder, not in
"/etc/systemd/system/". Maybe your systemd config
is messed up?? Just speculating, but worth checking it.
I changed tdm.service file with the text of link above : idem.
In /run/user/1000/ I see :
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? doc
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? gvfs
Impossible to delete these 2 folders.
# cd doc or gvfs
"bash: cd: doc: permission not granted#
"bash: cd: gvfs: permission not granted#
Not sure what the problem could be. The most I can say is that I don't have them
here.
I tried everything, I will give up tommorow to reinstall completely a new
system Bullseye and tde-desktop, I cannot pass too much time.
I think that the migration Buster to Bullseye went badly.
Thanks again for your kind help. Cheers
It may be the wisest option in the end. A full reinstall does not take long, as long as
you make sure you copy over all
your home folder :-) And you are sure to have a clean system afterwards. If you don't
use another DE, I recommend you
install a minimal debian without any DE first, then install TDE on top of it. There should
be no issue.
Cheers
Michele
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