On 12/11/11 19:54, Neil Youngman wrote: > Unwisely, perhaps, I attempted an upgrade from within a running desktop. > > I replaced my sources.list entries for TDE with: > > # Trinity desktop > deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian > squeeze main > deb-src > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian > squeeze main > deb > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.13/debian > squeeze main > deb-src > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.13/debian > squeeze main > > aptitude update succeeded on the second attempt and then I ran aptitude > upgrade. > > The first sign of trouble was that the window manager crashed as the update > was applied. I was left with only the running windows and no borders. The > only way to switch windows was to click in a different window, so I shut them > all down with CTRL-Q and then I selected "end current session from a > right-click menu. This dropped me straight back to a command line. All > attempts to restart X and KDM failed, so I rebooted to see if that made any > difference. > > I was still stuck at the command line, so I reverted my sources.list and tried > to revert kdm. That failed with dependency issues, so I wiped all of trinity > 3.5.13 and reinstalled 3.5.12, which restored my desktop to normal > functioning. > > Neil Youngman On 7th Nov. I posted here "Squeeze/TDE3.5.13 - Successful upgrade" There were no replies. Still, I read of failures, using other methods like upgrading in X and using aptitude-upgrade. Please read that and try again! 3.5.13 is very good. David