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11-13-2009, 12:23 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2006
Posts: 18
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No mime types installed
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
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11-14-2009, 07:35 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: palmdale, california
Distribution: MEPIS 8; Debian (stable/testing)
Posts: 83
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Kinda hard to guess...
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....
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11-15-2009, 10:26 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Houston, TX (usa)
Distribution: MEPIS, Debian, Knoppix,
Posts: 4,727
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Are you aware that 8.0.06 & 8.0.10 are out?
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11-15-2009, 12:18 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: palmdale, california
Distribution: MEPIS 8; Debian (stable/testing)
Posts: 83
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Mepis point releases
Quote:
Originally Posted by archtoad6
Are you aware that 8.0.06 & 8.0.10 are out?
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AFAIK, these are just "maintenance" releases, FWIW.
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11-17-2009, 11:07 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2006
Posts: 18
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No mime types installed
Thanks for the inputs guys.
I took the easy way out and installed SUSE which is working just fine.
Dick
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