On Wednesday 14 April 2021 16:43:11 Slávek Banko via tde-users wrote: > On Thursday 15 of April 2021 01:16:32 William Morder via tde-users wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 April 2021 23:28:10 Stefan Krusche via tde-users wrote: > > > Hi Bill, > > > > > > > error message: > > > > > > > > "unable to change expired password: Authentication token > > > > manipulation error" > > > > > > > > But when I try to remove these pkgs, pretty much all essential TDE > > > > packages get removed. > > > > Okay, so some more information on this issue. An old note to myself > > advises *not* to install kdesktop-trinity, as this "installs > > ldap-heimdal-kerberos krap!" And this does ring a faint bell. > > > > When I try to uninstall this package, however, I am told that this > > cannot be done without uninstalling lots of Trinity stuff. In > > particular, konqueror-trinity depends on kdesktop-trinity. > > > > (Sorry I cannot give more information, but readers may recall that I > > have a hard drive that crashed, which I still have yet to recover; and > > on that drive I kept very detailed notes about such issues, and moreover > > managed to keep my life organized and reasonably tidy; now everything is > > a mess, and I am working to rebuild what was lost.) > > > > It seems to be kerberos that interferes with changing passwords; heimdal > > must get dragged in with it. In any case, I have superstitiously avoided > > both; I don't know quite what they do, but they don't suit my purposes. > > Regarding ldap, that doesn't seem to be a problem with Trinity ldap > > packages, only other ldap that get called as dependencies. > > > > So, if I can uninstall kdesktop-trinity without also removing other > > crucial packages, this (at least, according to my notes) ought to > > resolve the issue. > > > > Bill > > ____________________________________________________ > > You seem to have now installed TDE 14.1.0~pre - ie repository PTB. Unlike > R14.0.x, tdm in PTB has fixed dependence on libtdeldap, which has fixed > dependence on kerberos. Currently, you cannot uninstall libtdeldap and > kerberos packages in R14.1.0~pre. Uninstalling the kdesktop-trinity > package is not a good idea because it provides desktop as such. > > Exactly this dependence on libtdeldap and kerberos is one of the points > that is blocking R14.1.0 to be considered ready for release. > > Cheers a~HA! Gotcha! ;-) I had a hunch that something had changed. I suppose that I could revert to stable builds. But unless it can be resolved in future, I will still have to deal with it whenever I finally upgrade out of Devuan Beowulf. That will be a few more years, as it is an LTS release, so I can at least work around it for a while. Thanks, Slavek! Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
