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Evil20071

I installed the Java JDK via SFS4. Immediately after, I lost my pinboard, I can't get the Package Manager to load, and basically, I have to do everything through the terminal. I'm not exactly sure what caused this. I'm having to use Windows for now. Puppy runs fine without loading a save file or any SFS files, so idk, but I can't get in to uninstall or unload the .sfs files

musher0 · Posted: Mon 17 Sep 2012, 14:21 Post subject:

Hello, Evil20071.

The window manager menu may still be working, even if you do not have a ROX-pinboard or backdrop. If so, in the menu, go to

System > Config > Bootmanager

click on the sfs button

remove the entry for the java.sfs

reboot.

I hope this helps.

Evil20071 · Posted: Mon 17 Sep 2012, 15:06 Post subject:

It won't open that either.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Mon 17 Sep 2012, 16:45 Post subject:

Boot without using the savefile, then delete or rename the Java SFS. Reboot.

Evil20071 · Posted: Mon 17 Sep 2012, 21:56 Post subject:

Tried it. Nothing. It will at least let me open the SFS Load on the Fly... However... There's nothing loaded... Sad

It seems as though it's everything with ROX has just crapped out and won't load. I'm beginning to think it's just a coincidence that it happened after I loaded that .sfs now... I can load programs from Firefox by browsing to the folder they're in, but I can't get ROX to load anything. Since the pinboard is ROX as well, that may be it, though the question is still "What caused it?"

Are there any alternatives to ROX that I could try to install just to test, or possibly a .pet of ROX?

Evil20071 · Posted: Mon 17 Sep 2012, 22:03 Post subject:

Ok... I can manually open a ROX menu from the terminal. What should I do from here?

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3012 Location: Oregon

Have you tried from a terminal,
"sfs_load -u name_of_sfs_file?
That should work if the file in question was an SFS file of JAVA.

Evil20071 · Posted: Tue 18 Sep 2012, 23:25 Post subject:

8bit: The problem I'm having is that the desktop/file manager doesn't load.

Karl Godt · Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 2675 Location: Kiel,Germany

The roxfiler resides in the directory
/usr/local/apps/ROX-Filer
and called by
cat /usr/local/bin/rox
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/apps/ROX-Filer/AppRun "$@"

script (usually) .

If some of these are broken, then you would need to restore it somehow . The easiest way would be in creating a new save-file.3fs .

Evil20071 · Posted: Fri 21 Sep 2012, 19:30 Post subject:

I can't get it to re-load the pinboard that way at all, however, I can get into a ROX-Filer window using the command for that...

EDIT: Scratch that. I had to use the following: