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Re: [trinity-users] tdm doesn't start automatically

From: "ajh-valmer" <ajh.valmer@...>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 20:26:29 +0100
On Friday 03 January 2020 00:51:44 William Morder via trinity-users wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 January 2020 16:46:32 ajh-valmer wrote:
> > > First,
> > > Happy and best new year 2020 to you !
> > > Since last upgrade of tdm,
> > > tdm doesn't start automatically as before and why  ?
> > > The system starts in konsole mode.
> > > I have to login as root and type :
> > > # killall tdm
> > > and tdm starts.
> > > Even if /etc/rc1.d to /et/rc6.d and rcS.d = K19tdm OR S19tdm :
> > > system starts in konsole mode.
> > > tdm is in /etc/init.d/
> > > I use "sysv-rc-conf" to put K or S.
> > > What is the difference between tdm and tdm-trinity ?
> > > Thanks and Regards Andre

1) you don't send your wish for the new year :-)

2) you send me two mails, the number two <andre_debian@...>
is now out of use (numericable.fr has stopped).

> There are some packages which have "-trinity" added to the name. 
> This seems to  
> be an issue only of naming, in order to avoid conflicts due to legacy 
> packages left over from the old KDE3. Others may know better. 
> I believe that we have been discussing this same issue under the
> heading "tde  
> update disaster, helllppppp!!!!!!" (started by Gene Heskett). See those 
> posts. 
> If your issue sounds similar to what is described in that thread, then first
> I would try this: "sudo apt-get purge tdm-trinity && apt-get install 
> tdm-trinity" (from Slavek's recommendation), and after that, "sudo 
> dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity". 
> On reboot, your system ought to be more or less normal. (I did have to 
> reconfigure my customized login page, and again had to enable the secure 
> authentication feature, but otherwise it's all good now.  Bill

Yes, now it works.

Thanks, Regards,

Andre