On Tue, Jul 29, 2014, at 12:44 PM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 28 July 2014, Barry sent: > > You were right. I booted with a rescue disk and fsck found many errors > > on the root partition. many Anyway they seemed to be fixable, and on > > rebooting, I was able to reinstall yum and then other stuff. > > > > The only problem is that now I lost my top and bottom panels. This is > > an XFCE spin, and I wanted to take a look at it. I liked what I saw, > > but I don't really trust the drive. it's an old laptop, and probably > > not worth a lot more time. > > To have a look, without wasting money on a new hard drive, you could try > making an install that runs off a USB flash drive. They're cheap, and > immediately re-useable, if you don't thrash it to death with your test. > > Sure, a live DVD could give you a trial look, too. But it's such a > painfully slow medium. > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp > Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 > > All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point > trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the > public lists. > > George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not > a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. > >
Thanks, that makes sense, but I managed to fix the two things that were bothering me and I'm liking XFCE. I had to fix the panel after fixing many disk problems with fsck and updating. I weirdly lost my panels. Rather the shortcuts in the panels, not the panels themselves. Once I figured out how to repopulate them, all that seemed fine. I also wanted to get multimedia playback working -- with nonfree formats. I installed all the codecs but neither Parole or VLC worked right. Mostly the video was frozen or went to black. That turned out to be a driver problem solved with installing akmod-nvidia. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
