On Tuesday 12 August 2014 20:25:44 you wrote: > >>My home directory is a separte hard drive, it is been reused on > >> updates or from backus sinceat least 2004. It has quite abit of > >> old config info, some xsession-errors are related to this. My > >> testing of TDE in vm's do not have any issues > >>I will try cleaning up my home dir first, thanks for your reponse. > > > > As a quick test, you can try creating a new account and make sure > > that you have no issue with it. If that is the case, the problem is > > almost surely related to some old stuff/config still present in > > your home folder. > > > > Cheers > > Michele > > And if you do manage to find the offending file I'd like to figure > out what happened so that we can prevent it occurring for anyone > else! > > Tim I created a new user, I have enclosed a pristine (new user) .xsession-errors file. snipped for all the lockfile entries. I still get the locked session dialog, lots for the new user...on one login attempt I never got an unlocked session to use. New issues 1. the new user does not have 'opt/trinity/bin' or other TDE specific entries in PATH ? I use 'adduser' (cli) to create users on my system. 2. Dual monitor, no panel on one of the monitors Xsession: X session started for debian at Wed Aug 13 15:26:23 AKDT 2014 localuser:debian being added to access control list [starttde] Starting starttde. [starttde] This script is /usr/bin/x-session-manager [starttde] TDE version is R14.0.0 [DEVELOPMENT] [starttde] TDE base directory is /opt/trinity [starttde] TDEHOME is not set. [starttde] Set TDEHOME to /home/debian/.trinity. [starttde] Setting TDEROOTHOME to /root/.trinity. [starttde] XDG_DATA_DIRS: /opt/trinity/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share [starttde] TDEDIR: /opt/trinity [starttde] TDEDIRS: [starttde] Starting Trinity... [tdebuildsycoca] tdebuildsycoca running... [dcopserver] DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. [starttde] TDE_FULL_SESSION: true [starttde] TDE_SESSION_UID: 1003 [tdeinit] Shutting down running client. --------------------------------- [dcopserver] It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure that it is not already running, remove /home/debian/.DCOPserver_tdewheezy__0 and start dcopserver again. --------------------------------- [kded] Daemon (kded) is already running. [tdebuildsycoca] tdebuildsycoca running... [tdebuildsycoca] Reusing existing tdesycoca. tdeio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file /usr/share/applications/usbview.desktop has Type=Applications/System/Hardware instead of "Application" or "Service" tdeio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : /usr/share/applications/usbview.desktop [dcopserver] DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. [starttde] tdeinit started successfully. [tdecore] Deleting stale lockfile /tmp/tde-debian/kdesktop_lock_lockfile [tdecore] Deleting stale lockfile /tmp/tde-debian/kdesktop_lock_lockfile [tdecore] Deleting stale lockfile /tmp/tde-debian/kdesktop_lock_lockfile [kdesktop] SAK driven secure dialog is not available for use (retcode 6). Check tdmtsak for proper functionality. [kdesktop] SAK driven secure dialog is not available for use (retcode 6). Check tdmtsak for proper functionality. [tdecore] Deleting stale lockfile /tmp/tde-debian/kdesktop_lock_lockfile [tdecore] Deleting stale lockfile /tmp/tde-debian/kdesktop_lock_lockfile [tdecore] Deleting stale lockfile /tmp/tde-debian/kdesktop_lock_lockfile [tdecore] Deleting stale lockfile /tmp/tde-debian/kdesktop_lock_lockfile tdeio (TDEIOConnection): ERROR: Could not write data (pid 5154 process "nit] media /tmp/tdesocket-debian/tdelauncher9oiZU") [tdecore] Deleting stale lockfile /tmp/tde-debian/kdesktop_lock_lockfile <snipped ~ 200 deleting lockfile lines> SAK is not enabled in Contro Center -- Peace, Greg