Nov 4, 2026 7:06:42 PM Franco Martelli <[email protected]>: > > On 04/11/26 at 07:43, Donald MacDougall wrote: >> Thanks for doing that for me, I'd have to commandeer my wife's computer >> to do it. I see that it probably wouldn't accomplish much. >> >>>> Maybe I should uninstall XFCE and just go back to X11. >>> >>> I doubt that will solve your problem, for reasons Greg just explained. >>> > > maybe at this point you could double check your /etc/apt/sources.list > that for Trixie it must have the lines: >
My /etc/apt/sources.list file is set to use a mirror at UC Berkeley which is the nearest mirror site to me. It works fine, been using it since my university inexplicably did away with it's own mirrors quite a while ago. I have all four archive components like so: trixie main contrib non-free non-free-firmware both deb and deb-src. I also have the same from http://security.debian.org/debian-security Both deb and deb-src. I don't have either the updates or the backports lines in the file. I haven't needed backports and I'm not sure what the updates archive might be. I've done some searches and so far I haven't found any references to it. In any case I've been able to do upgrades successfully without either of them and it worked fine prior to my ill-advised use of the systemctl halt command which started this whole mess. > > ~$ sudo -i > ~# tasksel > > Tasksel also offers you the opportunity to install the SSH server, since > you planned to ssh-in to this PC via your wife's PC. So mark both "... > LXQt" and "SSH server" options. If also LXQt doesn't work you are > running trouble with the graphical server. Sadly I don't know how to run > LXQt from the command line, maybe a "startx" is enough. The lxqt metapackage wants to install 176 packages. Is that excessive? I already have the ssh clients and servers set up, it's just a matter of time to get to use it. > Another thing that I'd like to check is the output of the "inxi" > command, that obviously makes sense when you can copy and paste the > output of commands and logs, into your emails. If you're able to do that > first install "inxi" and then paste the output of the command: > > ~$ sudo apt install -t trixie-backports inxi > ~$ inxi -Fxpmzr I have inxi. It wasn't necessary to get it from backports. It is in the regular Trixie archive. Just got to get to it. > Kind regards, > -- > Franco Martelli > Thanks for your help, Don MacDougall
