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Nexus
Joined: 08 Jun 2012 Posts: 17
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Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 02:00 Post subject:
Icons gone, background gone, nothing but terminal will run Subject description: <<NEVER MIND>>- given up, reinstalled. |
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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?
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smokey01

Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2681 Location: South Australia
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Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 02:52 Post subject:
Re: Icons gone, background gone, nothing but terminal will run |
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Nexus have you tried typing xorgwizard at the prompt?
Nexus wrote: | 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? |
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Nexus
Joined: 08 Jun 2012 Posts: 17
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Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 03:02 Post subject:
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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.
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smokey01

Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2681 Location: South Australia
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Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 03:09 Post subject:
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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"
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Nexus
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Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 03:22 Post subject:
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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
Code: | e2fsck: No such file or directory while trying to open savefile
Possibly non-existent device |
I assume I'm supposed to replace "savefile" with the name of my actual save file, but I don't know where that is stored.
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01micko

Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld
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Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 03:25 Post subject:
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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
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Nexus
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Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 03:31 Post subject:
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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:
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#geany
geany: /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
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