It seems a backporting conflict in update/upgrade (with apt-get) has been the problem. After various daily upgradings, the things are fine again. Why, ...? I don't know ! Had to do with Xorg and the sh command. B4, to get out of the desktop back to tdm, i had to perform, as root from the console or from another ctrl+alt+Fx bash : killall Xorg or, better, killall sh . That made me fall back to the tdm desktop manager. But it was still with difficulties to shutdown the PC, which i achieved the hard way. BRgds to all. On Sunday 26 January 2020 02:50:34 David C. Rankin wrote: > On 01/25/2020 11:48 AM, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote: > > I'm late into this, so I maybe missing something... however... > > > > There are a couple of things I can think of to test things out. > > > > 1. Create a new user see if anything changes. > > 2. Grab another HD, install and createa new user. If you see some > > improvement, copy the old user dir over and recreate the old users. > > > > Maybe it's a corrupted user dir or a bad HD? > > Only other thing I could thing of would be a bad/missing udev rule. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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