<G> New developments! When I turned my machine on this morning, I was given
a lovely blue screen with "Alan McConnell" in a box in the center and a space
for
the password just below. I typed in my password and was presented with a bunch
of
icons on the left hand side of the screen. Very pretty. But when I clicked on
any
of them, trying to find a terminal emulator so I can run from the command line,
I
get a frowny face, telling me that an error occurred(???) and the system is
suspending.
All I can do is click OK and then I get put into the original login screen, as
above.
I am not given a clue what the problem is. I do know that I don't have an
.Xauthority
file in /home/alan, and this may be part of the difficulty. Does anyone know
how to
create an .Xauthority with xauth? I find the man page of xauth pretty
impenetrable.
[ What is the difference between hitting the reset button, causing a reboot,
and
turning the machine off? It seems that there is one; otherwise why didn't I
get this
result yesterday? ]
I am still not able to connect to "the Internet" aka the outside world, and I
don't
know why this is. I am living in a retirement community and when I first moved
in, in
December, a staff member came in with a router, connected my machine to it, and
it
"worked". That was with wheezy . I haven't a clue why it doesn't work with
jessie . Of course this is a problem that I can expect only suggestions from
the
friendly and innovative members of this E-list<G>.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian" <a...@cityscape.co.uk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 5:51:25 AM
Subject: Re: Modified Rapture<g>, and a new question
On Mon 04 Apr 2016 at 16:51:23 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> <G> solved now, I hope! Now my progress report: after futzing around
> and
> trying to install this and that, I decided to bite the bullet/go with
> the
> flow, and install GNOME, the whole thing. Which I did, and it took
> just
> short of an hour. For some reason, Libreoffice was not installed. I
> hope
> I can get it later, since I know no other method of reading the
> occasional
> .doc and .docx files that come my way.
Strange. Libreoffice packages are dependencies of gnome (as is gdm3). You
could try
I did get it later(apt-get install libreoffice).
> [ By the way: I could and did get emacsen-common, but still have no
> working
> emacs. How does one get such? ]
emacs24 is on DVD-2, so either you obtain this disk or (as was suggested
earlier in this thread) set up sources.list for an external mirror and
get it over the network.
Once I get the network working, I can try this. I think I will have
to
edit /etc/apt/sources.list, a ticklish procedure. I am going to ask
my
GSFC friend if he can burn me the Official Debian jessie disks 2 and
3,
which should keep be busy for a while.
The saga continues!
Alan, swimming through molasses
