On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 15:49:06 +0200 Stefan Krusche <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Good day everyone, > > I'm using trinity 14.0.5 from preliminary stable builds on devuan ascii > (debian stretch). > > Through the most recent upgrade, that I executed on 2018-07-02 11:42:01, > tdm (amongst a couple others) got upgraded: > > tdm-trinity:amd64 (4:14.0.5~pre39-0debian9.0.0+6, 4:14.0.5~pre42-0debi > an9.0.0+6) > > After this upgrade tdm wouldn't start anymore and in /var/log/boot I > found this error message: > > Not starting Trinity Display Manager (tdm); it is not the default display > manager. > > The file is there: > $ ls -l /etc/X11/default-display-manager > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14 Jul 2 11:42 /etc/X11/default-display-manager > > And it says: > $ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager > /usr/bin/slim > > Solution: > > $ dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity > > Of course, tdm was the default display manager already before the > upgrade, and, as you can guess from the above, slim is installed, too. > > I think, it should not be necessary to reconfigure the display manager, > or, least, the user should be prompted to do so at installation. > > IIRC, this happened already at the previous upgrade to ~pre39. > > Has anybody seen this? Do you think it is a bug? > First, a you sure that slim wasnt updated too? Because if it was it is most likely bug in slim. If not than this looks like a problem with debconf database (or a bug in debconf). Look in /var/cache/debconf/config.dat for shared/default-x-display-manager and post a context of this section -- Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky@xxxxxxxxx) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
