On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 19:01:11 -0500
Frank McCormick wrote:
>I did indeed. In checking what I had there were a couple of
> differences which hadn't seemed to make much difference. But I have
> fixed those now.
>
> I appreciate your help.
Glad to help. Now you might wonder what might have cau
Frank McCormick wrote:
...
> my toes. I guess I am a bear for punishment. One day soon I will drop
> two of the three. Until then I appreciate
> everyone's help.
always a good idea to keep a stable booting partition handy,
especially when running sid (my opinion of course :) ).
normally i
On 1/5/23 13:12, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
I am getting close to reinstalling Debian ( shades of Windows) !
Debian sid is unstable by name mostly because of package churn and large
transitions like this. Unfortunately, it's not intended for inexeperienced
users - you are expected to be abl
On 1/5/23 14:45, Charles Curley wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 09:12:58 -0500
Frank wrote:
Yes, the file exists and is owned by lightdm. I don't know whether
this is
correct as I can't find any info on who should own it.
It would be more useful to those trying to help you if you showed the
On 1/5/23 13:44, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 06:12:07PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 09:12:58AM -0500, Frank wrote:
There are other strange things going on which may or not be related. I tried
to
reinstall lightdm and the greeter using apt. (The D
On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 09:12:58 -0500
Frank wrote:
> Yes, the file exists and is owned by lightdm. I don't know whether
> this is
> correct as I can't find any info on who should own it.
It would be more useful to those trying to help you if you showed the
actual results rather than telling us w
On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 06:12:07PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 09:12:58AM -0500, Frank wrote:
> >
> > There are other strange things going on which may or not be related. I tried
> > to
> > reinstall lightdm and the greeter using apt. (The Debian partition is
> > moun
On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 09:12:58AM -0500, Frank wrote:
>
> There are other strange things going on which may or not be related. I tried
> to
> reinstall lightdm and the greeter using apt. (The Debian partition is
> mounted
> on my Fedora partition) but apt failed saying it could not contact
> debi
On 1/5/23 09:53, Greg Wooledge wrote:
/snip/
Error writing X authority: Failed to open X authority
/var/lib/lightdm/.Xauthority: Permission denied
Does that file exist? If so, ls -ld /var/lib/lightdm/.Xauthority
If not, ls -ld /var/lib/lightdm
Hell, just do both regardless of whether the f
On 1/5/23 09:24, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
On 05/01/2023 11:12, Frank wrote:
Is there a way to reinstall lightdm and the greeter from Fedora ??
Perhaps using chroot
which I have zero knowledge of.
Since the problem seems to be the display manager/greeter, there's a
good chance that you
On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 09:12:58AM -0500, Frank wrote:
> On 2023-01-04 11:23 p.m., Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 11:03:15PM -0500, Frank wrote:
> > > ** (process:734): WARNING **: 22:32:38.355: Error reading existing
> > > Xauthority: Failed to open file ?/var/lib/lightdm/.Xautho
On 05/01/2023 11:12, Frank wrote:
Is there a way to reinstall lightdm and the greeter from Fedora ??
Perhaps using chroot
which I have zero knowledge of.
Since the problem seems to be the display manager/greeter, there's a
good chance that you can press Ctrl+F1 (or F2, F3...) to reach a
cons
On 2023-01-04 11:23 p.m., Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 11:03:15PM -0500, Frank wrote:
** (process:734): WARNING **: 22:32:38.355: Error reading existing
Xauthority: Failed to open file ?/var/lib/lightdm/.Xauthority?: Permission
denied
Error writing X authority: Failed to open X a
On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 11:03:15PM -0500, Frank wrote:
> ** (process:734): WARNING **: 22:32:38.355: Error reading existing
> Xauthority: Failed to open file ?/var/lib/lightdm/.Xauthority?: Permission
> denied
> Error writing X authority: Failed to open X authority
> /var/lib/lightdm/.Xauthority: P
On 2023-01-04 7:30 p.m., Frank wrote:
Just went back to my Debian Sid installation this evening to discover
it won't boot.
There were 88 updates this morning so I suspect my problem is
related to that.
Has anyone else run into this? How would I go about diagnosing
what's wrong? I tried booting i
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