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Since this is my first post I would like to say hi to everyone here at Linux Questions.
Now then, I screwed up my installation of Fedora 17 because I was looking for a media player that had the codecs I need to order to watch a video using the repository. Later on I found out that the codecs I need are not available from there. Anywho, after the players I tried didnt work I uninstalled them along with their dependencies (including totem). Now when I click on anything in the "places" menu I get the error message could not open location 'file:///home/john' No application is registered as handling this file. It is the same story when I try to access another partition or my flash drive. I already tried using GNOME Commander to get around this problem but I still cannot get to the previously mentioned locations. This does not happen when I boot from the live CD.
Would anyone tell me what package I probably uninstalled by accident that caused my problem? Much appreciated.
Here is some relavent info:
Processor 1Ghz
Ram 512mb
Swap 1024mb
Model IBM A30
Hard Drive 32GB
Partitions Fat32 with windows XP and encrypted EXT4 with Fedora 17
By the way, I have dabbled with several distros and I think Fedora is the best with Puppy Linux coming in second. Great Job Guys!
Edit: I have not updated anything so my OS is the same version that is provided on Fedora's homepage. I would like to solve this problem before doing so since I am unsure if that will take care of this or not.
Last edited by Mr. Newbtastic; 12-09-2012 at 10:33 PM.
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Would anyone tell me what package I probably uninstalled by accident that caused my problem? Much appreciated.
I can't tell you what you uninstalled that you shouldn't have, but if you check your yum.log file it might give you the clue.
Look in /var/log/yum.log. You will need to be root (or sudo) to do so.
There is the 'gnome-system-log' application to assist viewing log files.
I tried following your instuctions using GNOME commander when I tried to open it I got an error message
No default application found for the MIME type text/x-log
open the "file types and programs" page in the controll center to add one.
The only thing I could think of was going to applications > system tools > system settings > details
here is what I saw:
web-Firefox
mail-kmailservice
calendar - (blank)
music-movie player
video-movie player
photos-shotwell viewer
Not sure what to do with that.
I checked to see if gnome-system-log was installed and it is. There is not a newer version available
I tried using commander to access my windows partition but it said permission denied. When I started it as root the partition did not show. I do not know if this is relavent or not...
If noone can figure out how to solve this then is there a way to unencrypt my EXT4 partition? I can then copy my data using Puppy Linux so I can then start fresh with Fedora
I tried following your instuctions using GNOME commander when I tried to open it I got an error message
No default application found for the MIME type text/x-log
[snip]
I checked to see if gnome-system-log was installed and it is.
Then, unless I am mistaken, you should be able to go to Applications > System tools > Log file viewer, which will ask for root password (not sure if you have to have sudo setup or not), then display a list of the log files, so choose yum.log and have a look at the end of the file for the packages you deleted.
The alternate, is to simply go to /var/log and run sudo gedit yum.log. The log files are usually just text files.
Normally speaking this should reinstall nautilus and its requirements.
Otherwise without wanting to look up what went wrong: If you have a sepparate /home partition and do not mind losing your programs:
just reinstall Fedora with your current /home as your new systems /home
ps. When using codecs for video's > use the RPMfusion repositories. Or simply use VLC media player.
Last edited by Air-Global; 12-11-2012 at 06:19 AM.
Your instructions did not solve my problem. However since the terminal told me that Natilus is not installed I went and got it from the repository and presto! problem solved.
Thanks much
Now I just need to figure out how to mark this thread as [Solved]
Edit: I figured it out, and sorry for the double post.
p.s. I also tryed playing my .avi file with vlc but no luck, but that is a problem for another thread... Thanks again!
Last edited by Mr. Newbtastic; 12-13-2012 at 11:13 PM.
Reason: figured it out
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