Linpus Linux Lite Acer Aspire One Desktop Failure (Looks like a zebra)
 

Hi

Like the title says my desktop looks like a zebra (black and white horizontal stripes) with what looks like dead pixels in, but they are not dead as i am posting this from the same laptop and it looks fine. When i try to open a file after searching through the search bar, it says "nautilus file manager is not running". How do i get it running and is there a way to fix my desktop without reloading Linux onto my laptop?

Chris

PS: Screenshot: http://i757.photobucket.com/albums/x...reenshot-1.png

Okay, hit control+alt+backspace, and if that doesn't help, attach a copy of

You can try running from a terminal window. What happens?

You know, several acer laptops that I have purchased for friends came with Linpus and it always made me think that it was an Acer joke. I have no idea if it is any good, but from the weirdness you are experiencing I would install a different Linux distrobution such as OpenSUSE, Mint or Ubuntu. It´s up to you to continue battling with a crippled OS.

Already tried to run that, nothing

And the other suggestion?

ok weirdly it says permission denied when i enter /var/log/messages

http://i757.photobucket.com/albums/x...creenshot1.png

i don't get this, found a way into the files, but now says the executable file doesn't exist :S

You need to sudo cat, or sudo cp /var/log/messages

Like the forum says, im a real noob, what does this mean? http://i757.photobucket.com/albums/x...creenshot2.png

Sorry, my mistake there. Cat 'concatenates' files, in this context it will write them to the screen; you pass the filename as an arg.

Forgive the double post;
Where you've opened nautilus above- nautilus is a file viewer, like the view you're viewing the nautilus directory with.

Ok so if nautilus isn't running, what file viewer am i using to view it? So Confusing. I would just re-install the OS but i can't find the disc, will have another look but :(

EDIT: Found the disc, how do i put it on a pen to boot from? I don't wanna have to install the disc on another system to do it though.

Why, what was in that error file? Lets try and fix the thing first

Error file? there wasn't one, it just said what it said in the screenshot, is there a way to get an error code?

I think I may have the same problem, but only next week will I get the Netbook in my hands. I will then try to solve this problem and post the solution (if any) here.