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

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

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

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. > &

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

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

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

2020-09-24 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

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

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.

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:

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

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