Re: Re: hwclock incorrectly set ?

2018-03-10 Thread Charles E. Blair
Thank you to Rick Thomas and the many others trying to help me with my "hwclock incorrectly set". -- According to aptitude, I do not have ntp installed. -- My system is indeed a dual-boot (not counti

hwclock incorrectly set ?

2018-03-08 Thread Charles E. Blair
I have been getting messages > superblock mount time in future, > probably due to hardware clock > incorrectly set. I tried using hwclock to fix this, but don't know what I'm doing. I created the batch file: date > datetest hwclock >> datetest and ran it to get the output: Fri Mar 9 00

Re: Re: Re: blocked update: Berkeley database utitility

2017-09-20 Thread Charles E. Blair
Thanks for previous suggestions, and my apologies for violations of user-list etiquette. The output from the "why" command: > Unable to find a reason to install db5.1-util. I don't know what the package db5.1-util does. The "blocked update" led me to imagine that there was some serious bug

Re: Re: blocked update: Berkeley database utitility

2017-09-19 Thread Charles E. Blair
I am using debian version 8.9. I have received several "updates available" notices that include Berkeley database utilities that are described as "blocked". I just tried aptitude. It says that an upgrade of the package db5.1-util from version 5.1.29-5 to 5.1.29-9 is available, but that

blocked update: Berkeley database utitility

2017-09-19 Thread Charles E. Blair
I have been seeing a message about Berkeley database utility v 5.1 update being blocked. What should I do abot this?

"no public key" warning on upgrade to stretch

2017-06-22 Thread Charles E. Blair
When I type "apt-get upgrade" I get this message, and things stop: W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs: EF0F382A1A7B6500 I hope there is a simple fix.

Re: Re: claws-mail sending failure

2017-03-18 Thread Charles E. Blair
Thanks very much for your reply. I have an older machine running claws-mail 3.8.1 and a newer machine running 3.11.1. Some but not all correspondents stopped being able to receive messages from my 3.8.1 machine, while still hearing from 3.11.1. I changed the 3.8.1 "sent" configuration (whi

claws-mail sending failure

2017-03-13 Thread Charles E. Blair
I have been using claws-mail for several years. After I changed the server used for sending mail, receiving has continued to work but not sending. When I closed claws-mail after a failure, my screen displayed > Warning SSL connection failed (A TLS packet with > unexpected length was receiv

Re: Re: grub has stopped booting windows 10

2017-01-16 Thread Charles E. Blair
Thank you very much! As you suggested, typing c at the grub menu, followed by set root=(hdo,msdos1) chainloader +1 boot took me to Windows. I suspect that there must be a way to fix my grub menu, but don't know how. The output from os-prober: /dev/sda1:Windows Recov

grub has stopped booting windows 10

2017-01-15 Thread Charles E. Blair
I have been running version 7.11 of Debian for several years on a desktop with a dual boot of windows and linux via grub. I upgraded to windows 10 roughly 8 months ago, and the system continued to work. On January 9, I noticed that the grub menu no longer displayed a windows option, instead

unable to configure wireless (iwconfig error)

2016-04-29 Thread Charles E Blair
The Jessie installer did not give me an option for wireless (using ethernet). I subsequently saw, when starting the computer, a message about missing ath3k firmware. I used aptitude to install atheros and this message has gone away. I then tried to use wifi-radar. This recognized the relev

wireless problem (firmware ath3k ?)

2016-04-29 Thread Charles E Blair
I recently installed Jessie on a laptop. I was not asked to configure access to a wireless network. I have noticed that, when the machine is started, there is a message, approximately: unable to load firmware ath3k The machine, when running windows, is able to gain access to a LAN. Th