Felix Miata composed on 2019-10-17 01:02 (UTC-0400):

> Felix Miata composed on 2019-09-25 22:14 (UTC-0400):

>> Looking in journal and Xorg.0.log I see no clues. X starts, but startx just starts
>> X and exits. Trinity-tdm is installed, but no other *dm, and I see no evidence of
>> its configuration in systemctl list-unit-files or systemctl list-units.
>> /var/log/tdm.log was last written over a year ago. Trinity tries to start using
>> startx /opt/trinity/bin/starttde, but a popup comes twice, then X exits:

>> "There was an error setting up inter-process communications for TDE. The messag
>> returned by the system was:

>> Could not read network connection list.
>> /root/.DCOPserver_hp945_0

>> Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!"

>> startx icewm works.

>> How does one do that, and why isn't there a TDM running?

> startx /opt/trinity/bin/starttde works, but why not TDM? MCC claims it setup TDM,
> but it's not happening. The only places dm shows up in the journal are within
> HDMI, administator, dma and loadmodules. 

Still no progress trying to figure out what is supposed to start TDM or control
which dm is configured. :-( Is it supposed to be something in /etc/alternatives?
/etc/systemd/system/graphical.target.wants? Why is there no
display-manager.service? Reinstalling trinity-tdm doesn't help.
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