Help! Thunderbird lost my passwords

I installed tbird 78.12.0 (64-bit) and it can't find my email passwords. I have browsed signons.sqlite and the passwords seem to be there in the middle of the db. I have tried to install a prior version of tbird but dpkg has thwarted those efforts so far! Any other ideas suggestions would be apprec

help with dpkg!

When dpkg tries to build a new initrd my system crashes. how can I stop dpkg from trying to build a new initrd so I can do some other apt things to fix my system?Many TIA!!!Dennis

Help -- GPG error

I'm getting "W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 8B48AD6246925553"doing apt-get/aptitude update for wheezy. I have tried several things that I have found doing Google search

LVM Recovery

I had a drive crash and it had a little bit of a LVM volume on it. The drive that contains most of it still survives. Can anyone quickly outline what to do to get the survivor attached to LVM and working again? LVM has completely forgotten about it. TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

unzip -a strange behavior

Greetings; I regularly use the -a option in unzip to fix DOS/Windows line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday and today! Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each line. Yesterday it treated a pdf file as a text file

Help needed with xserver (plain text)

Greetings; (Sorry about the html. Different computer, different everything!) When I try to start gnome I get messages: (WW) RADEON: No matching device section for instance (Busid PCI:1:0:1) found ... drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 ": open result is -1 (No such device or address) (sam

RE: Help needed with xserver

Original Message Subject: Re: Help needed with xserver From: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" Date: Fri, December 19, 2008 10:43 am To: w...@mgssub.com Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org What you didn't say is versions of Debian and Xorg you use. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: ja

Help needed with xserver

Greetings;When I try to start gnome I get messages:(WW) RADEON: No matching device section for instance (Busid PCI:1:0:1) found...drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0": open result is -1 (No such device or address)(same msg repeated)": open failedand my desktop doesn't start.I start gnome fro

Help - Gnome won't rune

Greetings; My system hung and I had to reset it. Now gnome won't come up when I boot. I get a screen that has a little window in it that says something about it can't find a system with XDMCP(?) running. I have tried giving it the address of my machine in every form I can think of to no avail.

What's the best way to get from stable to testing?

Greetings; It seems that the testing dist has more good stuff in it than stable, but how do I upgrade? I tried doing a network install but neither of the choices to build init.rd worked, so that was a few hours wasted. I have a working install of stable/sarge running. Can I start from there some

Any feedback on Icedove?

Greetings; I just learned of Icedove today. Is anybody here using it? What do you think of it? Where caqn I find some more info on it? Thanks for any info! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to: Mount NTFS filesystems RW

> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> I am dual booting my desktop and most everything is working fine. >> >> But, I can't get to my Win 2k disks unless I am logged on as root. >> The arg line in fstab specifies rw, but they are mounted ro

How can I force a clean reinstall of xfree86?

Greetings; Before I do the Windows thing of a complete reinwtall of the system for the fourth time, can anybody tell me how to do this? There is something wrong and the xserver won't come up. All it says is "I cannot start the X server" and some other general stuff. I have tried running dpkg-rec

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

Please take this somewhere else! > Roberto C. Sánchez ha scritto: > >>What you call "W's Iraq war" had the full support (pretty close to >>unanimous) of both houses of the US congress. >> >> >> > So did they deserved to be bombed as in Santiago did the comrades of the > fascist c

qmail install help!!!

Hello everyone! By now I'm rather pissed off. I managed to install qmail 1.03 on my potato and when it comes to the point where I want to start the local delivery functionality, the log says some about "unable to switch to queue directory"... -and then I tried almost everything. read docs, faqs...

socks4.3-package

Greetings. is it possible to use the debian socks4.3 to go through a m$-proxy, or do i need socks5 from rpm-package. i tried socks4.3 added: #: sockd 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 #: rftp but it didn't work... -what might be wrong ? Thanx, Gerald -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://ww

idepci driver-disk

Hello to all! I need to import a scsi-driver module to access my drive during install. found driver, have to compile it, and got to get it on a disk to import it during installation process. theres something about modules.tgz in inst.-instructions i read, but incomplete info... Q*: -what were t