On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 16:28 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 22:01 +0200, Sl�vek Banko wrote: > > On Thursday 11 of October 2012 21:52:48 John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > Thank you both, Slavek and Tim. I had tried re-running apt-get update > > > and then apt-get dist-upgrade but that did not help. I just followed > > > Slavek's advice and was surprised to see that packages were removed > > > rather than upgraded: > > > > > > root@denise:~# dpkg --configure -a > > > root@denise:~# aptitude dist-upgrade > > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > > gs{u} kdesdk-scripts-trinity{u} kpilot-trinity{u} > > > libavahi-compat-libdnssd1{u} libavahi-qt3-dev{u} libdbus-qt-1-1c2{u} > > > libkjsembed1-trinity{u} libogg-dev-la{u} libpisock9{u} libpoppler-qt2{u} > > > libsensors3{u} libxxf86misc1{u} > > > > > > However, it has not fixed the problem. The TDE splash screen appears > > > stuck on starting system services and, behind it, is an error message > > > about could not start kdeinit :( What next? Thanks - John > > > > > > > > > > Try to remove from /tmp folders kde-_your_login_ and ksocket-_your_login_. > > > > Slavek > Alas, that did not work. I should mention that I had previously > rebooted the system (the advantage of it being test). I removed > the /tmp files/directories pertinent to my ID; that did not work. I > deleted all files in /tmp; that did not work. I deleted all files > in /tmp and rebooted again. That did not work :( Next step? > > Would it make sense to uninstall and reinstall TDE? What would be the > best way to do that without deleting my configuration? apt-get remove > kdebase-trinity? Thanks - John <snip> Argh!! Uninstalling and reinstalling did not help. Now I am a bit stuck - although it is test, it is also a development system and we need to get back on it! What shall I try next? I did pick up this error in user.log regarding pulseaudio: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed. Is there a log file where I can see more details about why kdeinit is failing? Thanks - John