On Sunday 01 March 2015 12:14:52 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 01 March 2015 06:12:27 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 01 March 2015 05:54:10 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > TDE r4, kmail-1.9.10. > > > > > > Just in th last 4 or 5 days, the spell checker in the tool pulldown > > > menu has disappeared. It still works, hilighting the words it > > > _thinks_ are miss-spelled, but the only way to fix it seems to be > > > playing the 10,000 moneys writing MacBeth again. > > > > > > Any body know how to re-enable that spelling thing in the tools menu > > > and make it work again? It did work, for a few days after I > > > installed TDE, latest. but it left at about the same time it forgot > > > 40 of the 70 or so filter rules. > > > > It sounds as though you downloaded something or configured something > > or some such thing. > > I have dl some more stuff, because I use them, but I don't recall that > any of it should have had anything to do with the spell checker. Strange things affect strange things. And something changed. > > > I would: > > a) # aptitude update > > # aptitude full-upgrade > > What will this full upgrade do, to Jessie? No. It will just do all the upgrades that are pending and uninstall some stuff so that your system is fully upgraded to whatever version you have in your sources list. > If it is still wheezy, I > am uptodate as of 4 hours ago, but I generally use synaptic. > > Because I am a LinuxCNC user, there are added lines in my sources.list: That is bound to be part of your problem. That and your liking for tinkering. > > gene@coyote:/etc/init.d$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list > deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main contrib non-free > deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main contrib non-free > deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free > deb > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/debian > wheezy main deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib main > updates > deb > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0. >0/debian wheezy main > > And separately in sources.list.d, a linuxcnc.list > > gene@coyote:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ cat linuxcnc.list > deb http://linuxcnc.org/ wheezy 2.7-uspace base 2.6 > deb-src http://linuxcnc.org/ wheezy 2.7-uspace base 2.6 > > deb http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ wheezy master-rt > deb-src http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ wheezy master-rt > > deb http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ wheezy 2.6-rt > deb-src http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ wheezy 2.6-rt > > > b) If that didn't fix it, I would create a new user, set up KMail > > *minimally* (as near vanilla as possible) in the new user, see if the > > problems are still there. > > > > c) uninstall whatever you last installed. > > libgtkspell0_2.0.16-1_i386.deb > libhunspell-dev_1.3.2-4_i386.deb > both have now been purged again, but I expect I'd have to logout and > back in to see if its fixed. libhunspell seems to have a long list of > stuff that would have to come out with it, looking like it would demolish > the system. Perhaps I now need to re-install it? > > > d) rinse and repeat > > > > If the problems are still there, report back - especially if they are > > still there but have changed in some way! > > > > Lisi > > I'll reinstall libhunspell itself, take a nap & restart for S&G. > > Thanks Lisi. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett