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Icons gone, background gone, nothing but terminal will run
Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 06:00
by Nexus
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?
Re: Icons gone, background gone, nothing but terminal will run
Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 06:52
by smokey01
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?
Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 07:02
by Nexus
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.
Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 07:09
by smokey01
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"
Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 07:22
by Nexus
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
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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.
Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 07:25
by 01micko
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
Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 07:31
by Nexus
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