Session Manager Quit working

[Member dukester]

Again after apt upgrade, my session manager quit working.
I’m using plain fluxbox WM.
The exit” menu item is dead!!

How does that get fixed? TIA

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dukester

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Please provide first
inxi -Frxz

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See attached file please!

Attachments:

1. inxi-output.txt

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dukester

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As I explained in the other post, you need to enable at least the antix bullseye repo, and then see if updating and upgrading in terminal will fix the log-in issue.
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
replace “buster” with “bullseye”, so that your repo looks like
deb http://mirror.it.ubc.ca/mxlinux/antix/bullseye/ bullseye main nonfree nosystemd
save and exit. Then try

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install --reinstall desktop-session-antix

Reboot and see if you can log in in SLIm (use F1 keys to switch between the different available desktops until you see fluxbox).

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Ran all the commands you suggested! Then:

sudo apt install --reinstall desktop-session-antix
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Reinstallation of desktop-session-antix is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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apt policy fluxbox
apt policy desktop-session-antix

I suspect I gave you an incorrect antix repo. Could you share again
inxi -r

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Here it is, but it doesn’t make sense because I edited /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list as you suggested!!

`inxi -r
Repos:
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/testing testing main nosystemd nonfree
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-backports main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org testing-security main contrib non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list`

However, your suggestions worked because I now can exit gracefully from an antix session! But I’d still like to fix this repo thing! Thanks for all your help!

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You are right. I see no trouble in the repos you reported (apart fro buster-backports and buster-updates, but that should not influence at all).

See http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/testing/pool/main/d/desktop-session-antix/
desktop-session-antix is there, but for some reason it isn’t found by your system.

At least now login/out seems to work for basic fluxbox session. Try to update a few times more and see if you can get everything else to work.

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apt policy desktop-session-antix
desktop-session-antix:
  Installed: 2.0.1
  Candidate: 2.0.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.1 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I’ll update again soon like you suggest, and see what happens. Thx!!

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by dukester.

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dukester

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Did you want to run testing/bullseye from an installed antiX buster iso (19.3)?
Your first inxi output shows you using a debian sid repo.

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LOL – I don’t know what I want for sure!

Generally speaking, just a stable system, but with the option somehow of installing newer versions of software – not bleeding edge but newer than the standard Debian stuff.

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Well you now have a franken-antiX which means it is near on impossible to get support since we have no idea what you have installed from the Debian sid/unstable repo (I see you have gcc from sid, not from buster/stable).

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So what’s the solution? Backup $HOME and re-install?

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dukester wrote:

So what’s the solution? Backup $HOME and re-install?

That’s always a good advice to follow, when we have a very messed up system. Probably, you can back everything up and reinstall wayyyy faster than following complex procedures needed to “fix” your system…
TIP: check also all the apps you have installed, if you installed any, so you can reinstall everything you need after reinstalling antiX…

In my case, on my home pc, installing antiX took about 10-15 minutes…

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dukester wrote:

So what’s the solution? Backup $HOME and re-install?

AS PPC says, it will probably be quicker to do so.

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