Am Mittwoch, 17. Februar 2016 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> On Tuesday 16 February 2016 16:53:24 Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 16 February 2016 10:10:54 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2016 schrieb Lisi Reisz:
> > > > Why not just _try_, just for - I don't know - for heck's sake -
> > > > doing *exactly* what Nik suggested?  You never know, it might
> > > > work.
> > > >
> > > > <quote>
> > > > I had to use "start with empty session" temporarily (for one or
> > > > two reboots) to get rid of some hikups.
> > > > </quote>
> > > >
> > > > Lisi
> > >
> > > I'm couriouse: Gene, could you solve the problem?
> > >
> > > Nik
> >
> > Sorry Nik, I haven't tried, been up to my tail in other projects.  But
> > I will at some point do exactly that.  And let everyone know.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 
> Dr Nik;
> 
> I had a huge update tonight, 165 packages.  So I set it to start with an 
> empty config, and alternately rebooted and edited grub.cfg to get it to 
> use the latest kernel automatically since it has been built with enough 
> stuff I can run the uspace sim version of lcnc with it.  That took 4 
> reboots to get it right, each one a blank screen except for the icons & 
> tde menu's.
> 
> Getting that right, I reset it to use a saved config, and sure as God 
> made little green apples, on the next reboot nothing had changed, it was 
> all back, and all piled up on workspace 2, with the 4 tab terminal that 
> lives on workspace 2 in my usual workflow, sitting on top of everything 
> else.  
> 
> So it appears that accomplished zero effect other than kmail wasn't 
> restarted, everything else was after 4 reboots to an empty config, 
> including kcalc on its correct workspace 3..
> 
> Is the a subdir in ~/.trinity or ~/.kde ( those file dates were all old) 
> that I can nuke, to make it resave the config as it exists at 
> logout/reboot?
> 
> IOW, What did I do wrong?  Should I have been just logging out as opposed 
> to a hot reboot?
> 
> And how does one go about "saving" the manually saved session that this 
> menu gives you the option of using. I haven't run across a menu entry to 
> do that.  That seems like it should be the real answer, saving the 
> currently running stuff, including the workspace # its running on.
> 
> But what do I know?
> 
> In the FWIW category, big story about a Glibc vulnerability, released by 
> both Red Hat and Google, a dns exploit that gives the attacker root with 
> one query.  Supposedly a year old, but I don't recall seeing anything 
> but an update to the docs for glibc in recent history.
> 
> Does anyone know if the wheezy glibc has actually been quietly patched 
> for that exploit or not in the last year?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

Hi Gene!

Ok, then there is something wrong in your ~/.trinity - and I expect it's not that easy to correct by hand.

The easiest fix is probably this:

- log out of TDE 
- go to a console <ctrl>+<alt>+<f1>
- log in as "gene" or what ever user you use
- $ mv  .trinity .trinity-old
- back to X11
- log in 
- wizard comes up, just walk through it
- test session, which I expect to work.
- no copy the configs you need from the .trinity-old to .trinity, at least mails.

I know, that's anoying, but it sometimes happens. Maybe silent bitrotting, who knows?

Nik

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