unable to log in

2020-09-01 Thread anthony gennard
I am gradually getting to grips with Jessie although its difficult without any memory. Now I am lockout of my user account and do not understand the error message which is as follows:- "could not update ICE authority file /home/john/.ICEauthority" and I cannot even see the file by going into the

unable to login

2020-09-03 Thread anthony gennard
Greg Wooledge on 1st September very kindly gave me a detailed reply to my cry for help. I tried to follow his reply but I have lost all my memory following a stroke. So it took me some time to do so as I had to relearn the basic file commands. I got as far as the following:- " - bash: home/john:

booting details

2020-09-07 Thread anthony gennard
Is it possible to download an exact replica of the booting process which I see hurrying too fast to read it (at least it is for my tired eyes). I am trying to get up to date with this aspect of debian. On this machine I have Jessie installed. Thanks, Anthony.

Returning to /var/log/boot.log

2020-09-24 Thread anthony gennard
I am looking at the contents of my boot log file; when trying to get out of the very long file I thought Ctrl + c should do it - it does not and I cannot find any way. I wanted to try tail and head so see how they do. Can anyone please help me. Also is there any simple way to print out the last ru

Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log

2020-09-24 Thread anthony gennard
ever, it might got another graphical editor. > > Note: Every graphical application can be started with higher rights from > the > konsole (or terminal, how others may call it), by getting higher rights > with > su -p. (the -p stands for "preserve actual environment). > &g

Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log

2020-09-25 Thread anthony gennard
On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 10:11, anthony gennard wrote: > Thanks very much; it will take me some time to understand your advice. I > will revert as soon as I can. > > On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 15:03, Hans wrote: > >> Am Donnerstag, 24. September 2020, 15:45:47 CEST schrieb Greg W

Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log

2020-09-25 Thread anthony gennard
On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 at 10:40, anthony gennard wrote: > > > > On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 10:11, anthony gennard wrote: > >> Thanks very much; it will take me some time to understand your advice. I >> will revert as soon as I can. >> >> On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 1

Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply

2020-09-25 Thread anthony gennard
My email has gone haywire and I cannot reply to two of the messages. Fortunately, I had made copies of them. Greg Wooledge said to me >"How are you `looking at ` the file? >I would suggest using less. >You get out of less by pressing p Greg, I was using less. What I did was:- Open a terminal by

Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply

2020-09-26 Thread anthony gennard
, it`s a nightmare. I`ll likely be back asking for help with this. Regards. Anthony John. On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 at 03:48, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 25 Sep 2020 at 11:19:40 (+0100), anthony gennard wrote: > > My email has gone haywire and I cannot reply to two of the messages. > &

installing Epson XP-2100

2020-10-05 Thread anthony gennard
I am new to this list; I am 90 years old and had a serious Stroke just over 18 months ago which left me with a complete loss of memory. I had a Debian Jessie installation and have now a Debian 10 double install with Windows 10. I am now trying to set up my Debian 10. I am trying to install my XP

unable to login

2020-11-01 Thread anthony gennard
I was getting along quite well with my Debian 10.6 installation when I encountered a strange problem. I have Kde with Plazma installed in Debian and the machine is a dual installation with Windows 10. When starting I selected Debian from Grub, that was normal and went through the startup routine a

unable to log in on Gui but can log in on a console

2020-11-07 Thread anthony gennard
I have Debian 10.6 with Kde and Plasma installed. Everything was fine until the 2nd of this month when my password was turned down when I tried to install some updates and the position was the same for similar operations in the Gui - but I could open a console and log in there. Could someone assis

problems with GRUB

2020-07-25 Thread anthony gennard
Almost 15 months ago I suffered a massive stroke and am left with memory loss. I am 90 years of age, and i`m westling with trying to recover some computer skill. I have managed to build a further machine and double installed Debian 10 from a CD received with Debian magazine and Windows 10. The ins