I am running Mepis 8.0 on a computer with an AMD 64 bit cpu. It has worked beautifully until today. While I was saving a Open Office Spreadsheet file the computer suddenly went crazy. The cursor began jumping all over the screen and never stopped long enough for me to click on anything.

I tried Cntrl Alt Delete without success and finally just turned it off with the power button. When I subsequently re-booted I had no desktop icons and got a series of error messages:

1. Could not find mime type application/octet-stream
2. No mime types installed
3. malformed URL file:///home/dick/Desktop

I would appreciate any help.

Dick Rounds

There are a few truly unique tools in Mepis that may help with this. If you boot up a live cd, you can login as root (horrors!) and launch any of the Mepis tools from the System>Mepis Settings group. The system assistant allows you to repair the partition (among other things). I have found that this will correct many issues.
Post back with more info if this doesn't work...

OTOH, Mepis installs so fast, maybe you should just reinstall....

Are you aware that 8.0.06 & 8.0.10 are out?

AFAIK, these are just "maintenance" releases, FWIW.

Thanks for the inputs guys.

I took the easy way out and installed SUSE which is working just fine.

Dick