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Nexus · Joined: 08 Jun 2012 Posts: 14

Okay, so I followed the directions in this thread and now, after rebooting, I find that there are no icons or background in the desktop and nothing will run except urxvt. I followed the instructions on the first page of that thread to the letter, except for having to SFconvert the devx_301.sfs to version 4.

How can I fix this?

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1741 Location: South Australia

Nexus have you tried typing xorgwizard at the prompt?

Nexus · Joined: 08 Jun 2012 Posts: 14

Yes, I have. It won't run from urxvt, so I tried it from shutdown->exit to prompt. It ran there, but it has not fixed the problem.

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1741 Location: South Australia

Have you tried running the propriety driver for your card?

You will probably need the devx installed to compile it though.

Another thing you could try is "e2fsck savefile"

Nexus · Joined: 08 Jun 2012 Posts: 14

I don't think the problem is the driver. It worked just fine for weeks before I installed gcc today.

I tried "e2fsck savefile", but I got the error

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7331 Location: qld

So, going by that other thread you have a FULL install right?

Often problems can be fixed in full installs by reinstalling but DO NOT wipe!

And doing an fsck on the partition before you do that is a good idea.

Good Luck

Nexus · Joined: 08 Jun 2012 Posts: 14

Yeah, it's a full install.

If it helps any, I tried to figure out why things aren't running by calling them from the terminal. These are the kinds of errors I get: