Thank you, Richard, for your rapid reply, very much appreciated. Typing into terminal "sudo apt-get upgrade", gives me:
sudo: unable to resolve host greypoet-desktop [sudo] password for greypoet: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: f-spot mplayer The following packages will be upgraded: dpkg dpkg-dev evolution evolution-common evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common evolution-plugins libavcodec1d libavformat1d libavutil1d libcamel1.2-11 libebook1.2-9 libecal1.2-7 libedata-book1.2-2 libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserver1.2-9 libedataserverui1.2-8 libegroupwise1.2-13 libexchange-storage1.2-3 libgdata-google1.2-1 libgdata1.2-1 libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgtk-vnc-1.0-0 libnautilus-extension1 libpostproc1d libsdl-mixer1.2 libswscale1d nautilus nautilus-data rhythmbox 31 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/30.9MB of archives. After this operation, 659kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y The program goes on to unpacking, preparing and setting up the packages. Typing in "sudo synaptic gives me the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo synaptic sudo: unable to resolve host greypoet-desktop With, obviously, nowhere to login again. As to disc space, I don't know how to find this information. Can you tell I'm a ex-xp'r? Thank you for your help. jim -- synaptic doesnt open login cant update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237961 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
