On 12/11/11 19:54, Neil Youngman wrote:
> Unwisely, perhaps, I attempted an upgrade from within a running desktop.
>
> I replaced my sources.list entries for TDE with:
>
> # Trinity desktop
> deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian
> squeeze main
> deb-src
> http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian
> squeeze main
> deb
> http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.13/debian
> squeeze main
> deb-src
> http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.13/debian
> squeeze main
>
> aptitude update succeeded on the second attempt and then I ran aptitude
> upgrade.
>
> The first sign of trouble was that the window manager crashed as the update
> was applied. I was left with only the running windows and no borders. The
> only way to switch windows was to click in a different window, so I shut them
> all down with CTRL-Q and then I selected "end current session from a
> right-click menu. This dropped me straight back to a command line. All
> attempts to restart X and KDM failed, so I rebooted to see if that made any
> difference.
>
> I was still stuck at the command line, so I reverted my sources.list and tried
> to revert kdm. That failed with dependency issues, so I wiped all of trinity
> 3.5.13 and reinstalled 3.5.12, which restored my desktop to normal
> functioning.
>
> Neil Youngman

On 7th Nov. I posted here "Squeeze/TDE3.5.13 - Successful upgrade" There 
were no replies. Still, I read of failures, using other methods like 
upgrading in X and using aptitude-upgrade.

Please read that and try again! 3.5.13 is very good.

David