On 08/06/2017 06:11 PM, Tim Williams wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having a trouble getting Trinity working on Mageia 6. I've installed > via the official URPMI repositories, using the trinity-desktop package > to ensure all dependencies are present. > > Note, I've got Trinity running OK on my laptop with Mageia 6, but on my > desktop system it's badly broken for reasons I can't trace. My desktop > uses an NFS mounted home directory and and is a dual-monitor system. > > If I use TDM as the login manager, the I get dropped out of X back to > the terminal, TDM seems to be unable to start at all. I've switched to > LightDM, which fixed this but TDE isn't listed as an available desktop > in the relevant menu. Fixing this required a symbolic link from > /opt/trinity/share/apps/tdm/sessions/tde.desktop to /usr/share/xsessions. > > If I login the initial splash screen appears, but I then get a crash > message which closes before I can read the details, I then get dumped > back at the login manager. If I login using XFCE and try to run > starttde, then I get same behaviour and again, the crash handler > vanishes before I can get at anything useful. I see the following at the > command prompt: > > [starttde] Starting starttde. > [starttde] This script is /opt/trinity/bin/starttde > [starttde] TDE version is R14.0.4 > [starttde] TDE base directory is /opt/trinity > [starttde] TDEHOME is not set. > [starttde] Set TDEHOME to /home/timw/.trinity. > [starttde] Setting TDEROOTHOME to /root/.trinity. > [starttde] XDG_DATA_DIRS: /opt/trinity/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share > Start gpg-agent > gpg-agent[18838]: /home/timw/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:4: obsolete option > "use-standard-socket" - it has no effect > gpg-agent: a gpg-agent is already running - not starting a new one > End start gpg-agent > [starttde] TDEDIR: /opt/trinity > [starttde] TDEDIRS: > [starttde] Starting Trinity... > [starttde] Trinity hardware control dbus daemon running. > [tdebuildsycoca] tdebuildsycoca running... > [dcopserver] DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. > [starttde] TDE_FULL_SESSION: true > [starttde] TDE_SESSION_UID: 500 > [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/timw/.DCOPserver_baa.sheep__0 > and start dcopserver again. > --------------------------------- > [kded] Daemon (kded) is already running. > [tdebuildsycoca] tdebuildsycoca running... > [tdebuildsycoca] Reusing existing tdesycoca. > tdeio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : khtmlimage.desktop > [dcopserver] DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. > [starttde] tdeinit started successfully. > [kcrash] TDECrash: Application 'ksmserver' crashing... > [starttde] Shutting down Trinity... > [tdelauncher] Exiting on signal 1 > [starttde] Running Trinity shutdown scripts... > [starttde] Running /home/timw/.trinity/shutdown/stop-gpg-agent.sh. > Stop ssh-agent > unset SSH_AUTH_SOCK; > unset SSH_AGENT_PID; > echo Agent pid 18843 killed; > Finish stop ssh-agent > [starttde] Trinity shutdown complete. > > Note, I'm not sure why this is complaining about > /home/timw/.DCOPserver_baa.sheep__0, I've checked prior to start up and > this dir does not exist, nor is it left behind after the crash. > > I've tried using a clean user account and also running this as root, but > there is no difference, the start up just crashes. > > I've audited my system and have removed all the left behind Mageia 5 > packages, so the installation is clean as far as I can tell. TDE > programmes such as konqueror, kate etc start up OK running on XFCE. > > Any help much appreciated, I'm somewhat lost without my Trinity desktop > and this is my primary work computer. > > Thanks in advance, > Tim W > make an other user, change tty and log in as that user. you can use "starttde" from there (this is for convenience) try editing "/opt/trinity/bin/starttde" so that it launches or narrow down the problem....