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Re: [trinity-users] Re: One more question for the TDE guru's

From: Gene Heskett <gheskett@...>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 13:10:06 -0500
On Wednesday 17 February 2016 03:43:56 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:

> 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

I did an ls -lR in ~./.trinity, and saw that I own everything, and that 
several files were updated last night, but nothing that looks like a 
usual suspect.  Only 4 files in the session directory

So next time I am in need of a reboot, I'll do that.  Thanks Nik.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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