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Re: [trinity-users] Re: [catastrophe] (was: kicker does not work)

From: "William Morder via trinity-users" <trinity-users@...>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 10:10:25 -0700

On Wednesday 16 September 2020 09:57:06 Sl�vek Banko via tde-users wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 of September 2020 18:52:23 Uwe Brauer via tde-users wrote:
> > >>> "UB" == Uwe Brauer <oub@...> writes:
> >    >> On Wednesday 16 of September 2020 18:22:47 Uwe Brauer via
> >    >> tde-users wrote:
> >    >> <ml-migration-agent-AA1CGeSZfcB6iVtQByZ3Ah2eb7JE58TQ-XMD5yJDbdMReX
> >    >>Y1tMh2IBg@...> writes:
> >    >> wrote:
> >    >>
> >    >> When you have added apt sources for PSB, you simply use "apt-get
> >    >> dist-upgrade" to upgrade packages that are newer. Updating
> >    >> meta-packages does not cause an overall update. At the same time,
> >    >> meta-packages themselves usually contain a minimum of updates.
> >    >
> >    > I run apt-get upgrade (not dist-upgrade)
> >    >
> >    > And obtained
> >    >
> >    > Fetched 139 MB in 21s (6.633 kB/s)
> >    > E: Failed to fetch
> >    > http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-sb/pool/ma
> >    >in-r14/t/tdeutils-trinity/kregexpeditor-trinity_14.0.9~pre25-0ubuntu
> >    >20.04.0+3_amd64.deb Error reading from server. Remote end closed
> >    > connection [IP: 37.205.10.16 80]
> >    > E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try
> >    > with --fix-missing?
> >    >
> >    > I tried fix-missing
> >    >
> >    > But this is now the second time this happens, I am a bit worried
> >
> > I rebooted, then trinity was gone, so I logged into the GNOME
> > environment
> > and run
> >
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity
> > Upstart is not active - masking initctl
> > Adding 'local diversion of /sbin/initctl to /sbin/initctl.distrib'
> > tdm.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
> > Removing 'local diversion of /sbin/initctl to /sbin/initctl.distrib'
> >
> > Now, I am really worried!!
>
> When updating tdm-trinity package, there may happen that the "alternatives"
> mechanism causes a switch to another logon manager. It is not yet clear to
> us why this is happening. You use "dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity" to fix
> the situation.
>
> Cheers

Sometimes for me, desktop-base (or any other variants than 
desktop-base-trinity) may also need to be manually removed using 
dpkg --purge. I don't know if it applies here. 

Then run dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity and maybe also dpkg-reconfigure 
desktop-base-trinity. 

Bill