On Saturday 13 July 2024 06:17:43 Steven D'Aprano via tde-users wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 12:44:10AM -0700, William Morder via tde-users wrote: > What happens if you just install everything according to the defaults, > without your customisations? Does it still break? Actually, I don't "customize" until I get into the Trinity Desktop; and then, yes, I have been known to do a bit of customization. Maybe even more than just a bit. The problem is that whatever I do in XFCE gets saved as a session, even though I did not wish to save it. I would rather that XFCE just stays plain vanilla; not because I like it, but because I would rather not have this mess. If I have some time later this evening, I will try to track down any configuration settings for XFCE, and delete (or at least rename) those folders, and maybe that will restore XFCE to normal. > > > The problems with reinstallation do not seem to involve Trinity as such. > > For some unknown reason, the XFCE desktop has messed up my settings, so > > that I was unable to find my network, etc.; > > Are you suggesting that *out of the box* the installer installs XFCE > settings that are broken? And has done so eleven times in a row? > No, I did not say that. The installation never completed properly, so that I cannot boot into the new system. Only this last time, it finally completed, and I could boot into the new system, then finish installing my TDE packages. And everything seemed to be going fine, all looked normal, until this happened. If I recall, I was trying to install some text editors. Nothing special, I have done this a thousand times, probably in my sleep a few times, and never had any problems like this. Installations in general have been getting weird, even though, once installed, I rarely need to reinstall or make any major changes. As I said earlier, it has been about 8 months since I last had to reinstall my system. > Where are you getting the installer from? Is the media faulty? > > > And now, I get this weird error message: > > > > sudo apt-get -f install > > apt-get: symbol lookup error: > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-private.so.0.0: undefined symbol: > > _ZN11pkgDepCache24IncreaseActionGroupLevelEv, version APTPKG_6.0 > > Googling finds: > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/1469908/error-apt-symbol-lookup-error-lib-x >86-64-linux-gnu-libapt-private-so-0-0-und > > https://serverfault.com/questions/246613/suddenly-get-apt-get-symbol-lookup >-error-when-using-apt-get > > But honestly if you have installed the system from scratch eleven times, > and get this error each time, that suggests your installer is broken, > or you are starting to suffer hardware issues. I don't get this same error each time; only got it the last time, when at last I succeeded in getting the system installed. Part of this may be due to other factors: the power going out in the middle of the night, so that the machine shut down when I wasn't aware what was happening, and the internet has been unstable now for maybe 6 months, but I have no control over that. Thanks for the links. That was my next step, before I attempt anything more, and it will have to wait until this evening. 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
