Hello TDE users/developers:

First, let me take this opportunity to state, once again, TDE is by far, 
my favorite desktop.� I have used it for many years, and continue to 
support it financially and encourage all users to do likewise.

I am using debian/buster now since it's release.� I am also using the 
"preliminary stable builds" of TDE using the following location:

deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity-sb buster deps-r14 main-r14

I am having 2 problems.� The first is with TDM, which I will describe 
here.� I will ask for help on the 2nd problem later.

In addition to tdm-trinity, I also have 2 other login managers 
installed: lightdm and lxdm.� Both of these are working fine. Only TDM 
has this problem.� I would much prefer to use TDM.

If I boot up under TDM (after running dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity first 
to initiate TDM into the boot sequence), it starts fine, but 
continuously hangs in the main console with one of the infamous systemd 
problems wherein we get the "a startjob is running ..." and it NEVER 
ends until rebooted.� The TDM session appears to run fine, and I can 
login and run TDE fine.� However, because the vt1 console is never 
ending waiting to complete, I have no other VT consoles.� Essentially, I 
have NO virtual consoles at all.� Further, computer resources are always 
wasted and never ends waiting for the the startup to completely finish. 
This ONLY happens when booting up with TDM.

I can bootup with LXDM or LIGHTDM and this does not happen. Further, I 
can issue a "systemctl stop lightdm" or "systemctl stop lxdm" (depending 
on which is running from the boot), then issue a "systemctl start 
tdm-trinity" and TDM runs fine and there is not a never ending startjob 
waiting to complete.� So, it appears that TDM does not start in the same 
order of the boot sequence as LXDM and/or LIGHTDM which is causing this 
problem.

It is at this point, where I need some help in how to fix it, and I 
suspect that all debian/buster users may have the same issue, but not 
sure of course.� I hope I can help get his bug fixed before the final 
release of TDE for buster.

Thanks again.

Jim Freels, PhD (retired)