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06-10-2012, 04:37 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2011
Distribution: OpenSuse 11.4
Posts: 64
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Desktop vanished/corrupted?
I tried to save an image about five minutes ago and it wouldn't work. I got a message about something crashing which I didn't think to write down. I rebooted and now my desktop is grey with several red Xs near the top. Luckily Firefox popped up since it was open when I restarted so I can get to this page. I got an error message about a URL not being able to be opened but Firefox came up too quickly for me to write it all down. One had something to do with Kget and one with Lancelot. I tried lowering the window but there's no task bar and I couldn't get back to Firefox, and the messages had gone anyway. I've rebooted twice more since that first time, the third to bring Firefox up to ask for help.
I downgraded KDE earlier as was suggested by a reply I found while google searching because Dolphin kept freezing and crashing, and it seemed ok at the time. That was a few hours ago and everything has been working well until now.
I'm in the middle of writing a novel and if the task bar etc. are gone and I can't even open a terminal then I have no idea how to get my files back. Please help.
edit - managed to minimalise the window and one error remains this time. :
URL cannot be listed
file:///home/laura/.kde4/share/apps/lancelot/systemservices
Clicking ok on that one gives another:
file:///home/laura/.kde4/share/apps/lancelot/newdocuments
Then
file:///home/laura/.kde4/share/apps/lancelot/RecentDocuments
Last edited by Glaedr; 06-10-2012 at 04:41 PM.
Reason: adding error messages
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06-10-2012, 06:10 PM
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#2
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
Posts: 17,809
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Code:
[mherring@herring-lap ~]$ urgent
bash: urgent: command not found
[mherring@herring-lap ~]$
It seems that BASH (the most common Linux shell) does not recognize this command. You could try ksh, csh, or some other shell.
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06-10-2012, 06:26 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2011
Distribution: OpenSuse 11.4
Posts: 64
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I'm sorry, which command? I haven't tried to enter any. I can't open a terminal or anything else. I can only use Firefox because it opens automatically. I've tried the repair option on the cd but it's asking for a password I don't have and I can't even install RPMs.
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06-10-2012, 06:48 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2011
Location: Trinidad & Tobago
Distribution: Debian Stretch
Posts: 612
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pixellany
Code:
[mherring@herring-lap ~]$ urgent
bash: urgent: command not found
[mherring@herring-lap ~]$
It seems that BASH (the most common Linux shell) does not recognize this command. You could try ksh, csh, or some other shell.
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Quote:
I'm sorry, which command? I haven't tried to enter any. I can't open a terminal or anything else. I can only use Firefox because it opens automatically. I've tried the repair option on the cd but it's asking for a password I don't have and I can't even install RPMs.
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Hahahahahahahaha......
Code:
[mherring@herring-lap ~]$ urgent
bash: urgent: command not found
[mherring@herring-lap ~]$ sudo apt-get install urgent
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[mherring@herring-lap ~]$ urgent --need-more-money
urgent: invalid option, try --linux-questions for help.
[mherring@herring-lap ~]$
Last edited by towheedm; 06-10-2012 at 06:57 PM.
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06-10-2012, 06:55 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2011
Distribution: OpenSuse 11.4
Posts: 64
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I know HOW to install RPMs, obviously. The corruption is preventing them from installing.
Nice to know there are good helpful people here though. Thanks. -.-
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06-10-2012, 07:02 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2011
Location: Trinidad & Tobago
Distribution: Debian Stretch
Posts: 612
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Glaedr
I know HOW to install RPMs, obviously. The corruption is preventing them from installing.
Nice to know there are good helpful people here though. Thanks. -.-
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Read the rules before posting and you'll be glad to know that there are even more helpful people here.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...Ask_a_Question
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06-10-2012, 07:07 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2011
Distribution: OpenSuse 11.4
Posts: 64
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I did read them quite a while ago. And I didn't just write the word urgent on its own. I also wrote a rough summary of the problem. Either way this site is meant to be helpful and this IS the newbie forum. All those kind of replies are going to do are damage the site's reputation.
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06-10-2012, 07:16 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Dec 2009
Location: Germany
Distribution: Whatever fits the task best
Posts: 17,148
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Words like urgent are not appreciated here. This is a forum were volunteers spend their free time to help people with their Linux problems. Demanding special attention is quite rude in this context.
But anyways, to your problem: If this happened when you were saving data to your drive I would guess that your disk may be full. Please post the output of the command Since you don't seem to have a terminal window accessible you can either try to get one with pressing Alt+F2 and typing konsole into that window, or you can change to a text terminal with Ctrl+Alt+F1, logging in, launch the command. After that you can switch back to the GUI with Alt+F7.
By the way, I hope you realized now how crucial it is to backup your valuable data on a regular basis.
Last edited by TobiSGD; 06-10-2012 at 07:18 PM.
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06-10-2012, 07:26 PM
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Member
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Distribution: OpenSuse 11.4
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I wasn't trying to ask for 'special attention'. For me, it is urgent as that hard-drive has some very important files on it but I certainly wasn't expecting anyone to drop everything to fix it. There is just a bit of a difference between minor slightly annoying bugs and something which makes a computer completely unusable. Those kinds -purposely- rude replies are unnecessary.
I was only trying to save a small image and had something like 200GB free. Everything else was saving as normal. I was just getting crash reports from trying to save images from sites. I tried two or three images on two or three sites before restarting. Some of the files are backed up, but the more recent updates from the past couple of days haven't been yet.
Thank you for the suggestions, anyway. I'll try opening a terminal in the morning and post the result.
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06-10-2012, 07:43 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Dec 2009
Location: Germany
Distribution: Whatever fits the task best
Posts: 17,148
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Well, if you have such amount of space free then it is possibly not the lack of space, but a real hardware failure.
I would recommend to boot from a Live-CD, like the SystemRescueCD and backup your data to an external storage before doing anything else. After you have done this try to repair the filesystems on your harddisk, if they are damaged and may be look for hardware errors. If you need help with that feel free to post here.
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06-10-2012, 07:56 PM
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Registered: Jun 2011
Distribution: OpenSuse 11.4
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That's what I was afraid of. Luckily I still have Live CDs from attempts to fix a previous problem so I'll try those too.
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06-10-2012, 08:02 PM
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#12
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Fargo, ND
Distribution: SuSE AMD64
Posts: 15,733
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Quote:
URL cannot be listed
file:///home/laura/.kde4/share/apps/lancelot/systemservices
Clicking ok on that one gives another:
file:///home/laura/.kde4/share/apps/lancelot/newdocuments
Then
file:///home/laura/.kde4/share/apps/lancelot/RecentDocuments
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Your errors so far seem to do with lancelot and maybe the Desktop directory. See if the /home/laura/.kde4/share/apps/lancelot/ directories were trashed. If launching konqueror from the menu doesn't work (try the F2 key to launch it) or use a terminal instead.
One technique to determine whether you have a KDE configuration error is to create a new user. Do the problems persist? If not, system files were not corrupted.
You said you were trying to save an image. An image of what? A back up image of your hard disk?
Last edited by jschiwal; 06-10-2012 at 08:05 PM.
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06-10-2012, 08:11 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2011
Distribution: OpenSuse 11.4
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Unfortunately I don't see a way to do much of anything on there. I have no icons or task bar. Just a grey background with red Xs and Firefox. I could try looking up a way to do it through Konsole if I can get that to open.
And sorry, I meant image as in a picture rather than a disk image. Just a regular right-click-save-as thing.
Last edited by Glaedr; 06-10-2012 at 08:27 PM.
Reason: typo
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06-11-2012, 02:57 AM
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#14
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LQ Guru
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Bologna
Distribution: CentOS 6.5 OpenSuSE 12.3
Posts: 10,509
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Moderator note: Please use a descriptive title for your thread excluding words like 'urgent' or 'help'. Using a proper title makes it easier for members to help you. This thread has been reported for title modification. Please do not add replies that address the thread title.
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06-11-2012, 03:23 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Bologna
Distribution: CentOS 6.5 OpenSuSE 12.3
Posts: 10,509
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Official warning: @pixellany and @towheedm: please, the next time limit your intervention about "Help" and/or "Urgent" titles to simply reporting the original post for title modification. Sarcasm or loud laughters are not deserved and we want to show a more friendly attitude, don't we? Thank you for your collaboration.
Last edited by colucix; 06-11-2012 at 03:28 AM.
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