On Tuesday 31 December 2019 20:49:33 Sl�vek Banko wrote: > On Wednesday 01 of January 2020 01:44:44 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 31 December 2019 18:45:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday 31 December 2019 18:26:24 Felix Miata wrote: > > > > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-12-31 13:26 (UTC-0500): > > > > > Thanks for any help. debian stretch on amd64 if that helps. > > > > > > > > 1-Make sure tdm-trinity is installed and configured. > > > > > > > > 2-Purge lightdm, sddm, kdm, gdm and any other dm you can find > > > > besides tdm. > > > > > > Did that, now the dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity kills the xsession > > > and restarts xfce4 w/o presenting a choice menu, it just restartx > > > xfce4 And now I've got 10 minutes or more getting everything > > > restarted. grrr. > > > > > > > 3-Make sure /etc/X11/default-display-manager exists and contains > > > > /opt/trinity/bin/tdm. > > > > > > It exists, and does contain the above. > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > Got it, re-installed the heart of tde, 20 or so files with gksudo > > synaptic, ran the dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity again, no errors I > > hadn't seen before. > > > > logged out, in due time the tdm login showed up, this time with a > > real window manager menu. Default (last session) checked, switched > > it to tde, clicked on login and everything seems back to normal. > > > > But the damned bots are back to DDOSing me. Its one of the cz bots, > > and while iptables claims its running and that address is shown as > > dropped, it also is not incrementing ANY of the counters. I guess > > pita that it is restarting everything, its time for a full shutdown > > reboot. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Hi Gene, > > now I realized one potential problem when updating from a previous > version: During the tdm-trinity upgrade, the previous version of the > package performs an unwanted removal of the init script > /etc/init.d/tdm. If your system uses init scripts, this can be a > critical issue. The best way to get the init script back is: > > apt-get purge tdm-trinity && apt-get install tdm-trinity > I did re-installs, probably not exactly the same, but I do now have a tdm file in /etc/init.d. And I seem to be working ok after an extra full power down boot. Fingers crossed of coarse. Thanks Slavec. > Cheers Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>