Re: My first brush with systemd

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Monday 30 March 2015 11:25:57 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> The situation:
> I need to reinstall tdm-trinity.  It's a long saga.  I am getting the
> following.  The left hand edge is missing (on the display so on my copy)
> and I can't see the text very well, so I may have miscopied.  But here it
> is, for what it is worth:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-- # aptitude reinstall tdm-trinity
>
> up tdm-trinity 94:14.0.1~pre21-0debian8.0.0.2~a)...
> top-daemon:pid value must be a number greater than 0
> start-stop-daemon --help for more information
>
> ----------------------------------------
> I then tried
> # dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity
>
> I got the following error message, left hand edge missing again:
> ------------------------------------------
>
> 064319]systemd-default-display-manager-generator[1316]:/lib/systemd/system/
>tdm.service is not a systemd unit. we disable the systemd enabled display
> manager top-daemon:pid value must be a number greater than 0
> start-stop-daemon --help for more information
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Any useful suggestions for what I could try?  In my book, chuck systemd
> would not count as useful.  Though it has crossed my mind. :-(

Yes, I did try <start-stop-daemon --help>, but I couldn't read the output.

Lisi