> Selective use of the "cruft" program will help you clean up an existing
> system. It compares the list of normal files and conffiles for installed
> packages against the file system and reports extras--cruft.
The concept fits the bill. :) Unfortunately, I tried it out and there
were too many
> Unfortunately, that project appears to be dead. There has not been a
> release or even an SVN commit since Lenny, and I suspect cruft will
> report a lot of false positives in Squeeze.
Cruft seems like it would be an ideal tool, but you're right that there
were some false positives. It reporte
> Although some people think that APT's new autoremove feature will make
> deborphan obsolete I still find it useful. 'sudo orphaner' or 'sudo
> orphaner -a' for the full list. (I expect many will reply that
> aptitude does it better. That's nice. I like deborphan better.)
Thanks for the tip.
> Perhaps 'aptitude search ~c' will fill your needs. It will search for
> unused configuration files.
Ok, I tried that, but that command lists deleted packages that left
config files behind; I'm looking for a way to delete abandoned config
files that belonged to packages that have been upgraded.
Ok, so I got hardware rendering to work and the weird colors to go away
on my ppc machine with a radeon card.
I installed firmware-linux and rebooted, after getting the tip when I
posted another bug-report to:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608513
-Drew
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> > Maybe your icon's cache file is corrupted somehow :-?
> >
> > You can try to update it with "gtk-update-icon-cache" command (read the
> > man page for a proper usage). Or you can also try by renaming the
> > original "/usr/share/icons/your_theme/icon-theme.cache" file so it gets
> > recreat
> Hummm... you can download a new icon set from here:
>
> http://art.gnome.org/themes/icon?page=1
>
> Uncompress it and put the folder under "/usr/share/icons/" and then
> customize your Clearlooks theme by selecting this new icon set to be
> used. Relogin and check for any improvement.
>
>
> Maybe your icon's cache file is corrupted somehow :-?
>
> You can try to update it with "gtk-update-icon-cache" command (read the
> man page for a proper usage). Or you can also try by renaming the
> original "/usr/share/icons/your_theme/icon-theme.cache" file so it gets
> recreated from scra
> > Since my upgrade to squeeze, many menu icons, scrollbars, and some
> > images displayed in browsers have been displaying funky colors. I don't
> > know which package is causing this bug, so can anyone offer any advice?
>
> (...)
>
> Quick check: does it happen when you login with a fresh new
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