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PRSoftware

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From: France

Registered: 2023-07-23

Posts: 19

Desktop not displayed after upgrade

Hello,

I have upgraded my machine (named DELL-1) from Gemini to Aquarius and, after rebooting, the desktop is not displayed.

I have only the following text on the screen :

Debian GNU/Linux 12 DELL-1 tty1
DELL-1 login:

What can I do ?

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Laptop DELL Latitude D610 : CPU Pentium M 32 bits / RAM 2 GB / SSD 256 GB - Q4OS Aquarius

PRSoftware

Member

From: France

Registered: 2023-07-23

Posts: 19

Re: Desktop not displayed after upgrade

I have investigated a bit more...

If I log in with my account, I can execute manually the command "startx" and the desktop is displayed !

How can I automate the launch of the command "startx" ?

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Laptop DELL Latitude D610 : CPU Pentium M 32 bits / RAM 2 GB / SSD 256 GB - Q4OS Aquarius

Senas Komunistas

Member

From: Lithuania

Registered: 2016-04-17

Posts: 50

Re: Desktop not displayed after upgrade

Hello,

I have upgraded my machine (named DELL-1) from Gemini to Aquarius and, after rebooting, the desktop is not displayed.

I have only the following text on the screen :

Debian GNU/Linux 12 DELL-1 tty1
DELL-1 login:

What can I do ?

Hello. Type in terminal command systemctl --state=failed and post output here.

PRSoftware

Member

From: France

Registered: 2023-07-23

Posts: 19

Re: Desktop not displayed after upgrade

The command "systemctl --state=failed" gives the following result : 0 loaded units listed.

I investigated a bit more and I saw errors in the file /var/log/tdm.log :

[2023/07/26 18:16:58.876] [tdeinit] Fatal IO error: client killed
[tdelauncher] Exiting on signal 15
There was an error setting up inter-process communications for TDE. The message returned by the system was:

Could not read network connection list.
/tmp/1610069968/.DCOPserver_DELL-1__0

Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!
[2023/07/26 18:16:58.914] [dcopserver] DCOP aborting (delayed) call from 'kded' to 'tdelauncher'
[2023/07/26 18:16:58.915] kded: Fatal IO error: client killed
[2023/07/26 18:16:58.954] [dcopserver] DCOP aborting (delayed) call from 'anonymous-952' to 'kded'
[2023/07/26 18:16:58.974] [kded] [952] ERROR: Communication problem with kded, it probably crashed.
X connection to :0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
(II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

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Laptop DELL Latitude D610 : CPU Pentium M 32 bits / RAM 2 GB / SSD 256 GB - Q4OS Aquarius

Senas Komunistas

Member

From: Lithuania

Registered: 2016-04-17

Posts: 50

Re: Desktop not displayed after upgrade

Hello. Try to delete folders in ~/.local(/share) and ~/.config too for config files, related to trinity. If that doesn't help, then create an account with same name and uid

PRSoftware

Member

From: France

Registered: 2023-07-23

Posts: 19

Re: Desktop not displayed after upgrade

None of the suggestions are working.

I will do a fresh install of Aquarius with disk formatting

I must say it is not a very good experience with Q4OS ...

The other Linux system I use on my main PC (Linux Mint) has a very simple and reliable upgrade procedure.

I never had such problems with this system but it doesn't have a 32 bits version now and it is why I searched for a 32 bits compatible Linux system for my old laptop.

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Laptop DELL Latitude D610 : CPU Pentium M 32 bits / RAM 2 GB / SSD 256 GB - Q4OS Aquarius

bin

Member

From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,305

Re: Desktop not displayed after upgrade

The general recommendation from the Q4OS team - repeated in many places throughout the forum - is that upgrading from previous versions is not a good idea. Usually a change of Debian base is accompanied by the latest version of TDE (modified for Q4OS) and this can bring pain when trying to upgrade. Maintaining your /home in its own partition is therefore a good idea and makes the job a lot easier.

PRSoftware

Member

From: France

Registered: 2023-07-23

Posts: 19

Re: Desktop not displayed after upgrade

Thanks for the advice.

Is it a guide to explain how to do it ?

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Laptop DELL Latitude D610 : CPU Pentium M 32 bits / RAM 2 GB / SSD 256 GB - Q4OS Aquarius

Rademes

Member

From: Latvia

Registered: 2015-12-13

Posts: 636

Re: Desktop not displayed after upgrade

Since you have already broken your system, personally I think, it will be much easier and faster for you to backup all your documents to removable drive and then wipe your disk (if you do not have another OS on it) and perform a clean install of Q4OS Aquarius. Because after such Gemini to Aquarius upgrade you may have problems in future.
Also, please, read this: https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.ph … 034#p25034

Last edited by Rademes (2023-07-28 17:30)

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