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Re: What package contains the time daemon?



On Sunday 26 July 2015 15:14:03 Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 26.07.2015 um 14:57 schrieb Lisi Reisz:
> > Yes, on my one systemd box, I had a problem with which no-one could help
> > me.
> >
> > I do not allege that systemd directly caused it, but that the advent of
> > systemd caused a lot that had worked one way before, to have to work
> > differently now; that there are still some glitches in this, and that we,
> > as a group, do not know the answers.  I asked on two lists, fiddled, went
> > spare, decided that life is too short and reinstalled.  With Jessie
> > again.  It is lovely, but ...
>
> Can you point me to your problem please?

Basically, I couldn't reconfigure, reinstall, purge and reinstall tdm, 
reconfigure and use LightDM, purge and use LightDM, I couldn't do anyhting 
without getting an error message about PID 0. 
As in this (left hand edge is missing):
------------------------------------------------
# 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
----------------------------------------------

And I couldn't - and this is totally mad - purge LXDE to the point where it 
wouldn't be brought up in as an emergency offering.  I could find no way of 
getting back to TDE, and I kept getting this wretched message about PID 0.  I 
thought that if I purged LXDE it would have to give me TDE - or only the CLI.   
But it went on booting into LXDE.  :-(

Here is the beginning of the thread on this list.

https://lists.debian.org/201503301125.57809.lisi.reisz@gmail.com

I didn't try Darac's suggestion, because it had been going on for a long time 
by then, and I could barely see what I was doing.  So I'm afraid that that 
was the point at which I chickened out and reinstalled.

Here are two of teh threads on the Trinity DE list:

http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::8090
http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::8232

I have now, of course, reinstalled.  Though it would be nice to think that I 
don't have to reinstall next time I make a mistake. ;-)

I have made this mistake a number of times over the years.  It has never 
before been a problem to sort out.

Lisi


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