Hi Gene,

On Sunday 19 April 2015 16:26:25 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 19 April 2015 07:28:53 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Sunday 19 April 2015 12:11:47 Baron wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > New problem !  Following an upgrade to Debian Jessie, TDE 14
> > > Desktop, when booting up, everything is fine until the machine
> > > gets to "Loading the Desktop".  At this point it seems to hang
> > > for a minute or so before becoming a blank blue screen with
> > > only the mouse cursor present.  From here the only thing that
> > > can be done is to select VT1 and login manually, typing
> > > "startx" gets to the Desktop.
> > >
> > > I've noticed that only VT1 will get to the Desktop and all the
> > > other terminals except VT8 leave you with a blue background,
> > > whilst VT8 now has just a tiny blinking cursor on a black
> > > screen which has no response to anything.
> > >
> > > Where do I need to look in order to put things back to normal ?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > I've got display manager problems with TDE 14 on Jessie, after an
> > upgrade where I stupidly rebooted before running dpkg-reconfigure
> > tdm-trinity. Problem solving was taking so much time that I am
> > living with it until I have the opportunity to reinstall.
> >
> > Mine emergency boots into LXDE, which I uninstalled and which
> > <aptitude show> and <aptitude search> both say is not there.  To
> > use the American term, I hope correctly, go figure.
> >
> > Lisi
>
> That is about as correct a usage as you'll see.
> And a problem that I hope is fixed by the official Jessie release.
>
> Is this "dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity" the whole fix?
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

I tried running that command and got a message about a PID of 0 and 
having to specify a PID.  In any event nothing useful came of it.


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Best Regards:
            Baron