Broken Desktop(solved)

[dalebednell]

Hi Guys!

I am running puppy 528 kernel 2.6.33.2 full install on a parkard bell note book.
I tried to install blender 2.49.2 lucid52 but then openshot did not work missing libxxxx. So uninstalled blender now don't have any icons on my desktop just the clock no calender right click on desktop and i get the menu but nothing works. Does any one have any idea what can i do to fix this?

Thanks

[8-bit]

Have you tried restarting X from the menu?
I normally use frugal installs of Puppy. So help in restoring your desktop and icons might be different with a full install of Puppy.

[Monsie]

dalebednell,

If you can get to the terminal from your desktop, try these commands:

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fixmenus

then

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jwm -restart

If you are unable to access the terminal, then you can try booting Puppy with the pfix=nox parameter which will bring you to a command prompt in order to try the above fixes.

Hope this helps,
Monsie

[Semme]

Running the same, I'm always leary of pkgs that *aren't* from Ubuntus`pool direct.

Switching PPM repos would've yielded this Blender copy >> blender_2.49.2~dfsg.

Whether you'd have faired better is anybodys guess.. I run frugal.

[Karl Godt]

Trying could mean many things .

Clicking on a .pet or .dep should install it over existing bins and libs .
Uninstalling would delete files that had been overwritten by an installation .
Before uninstalling, it probably be wise to click on the main.sfs inside the .iso and open /root/.packages/PKG_NAME.files file and check things .
I usually install a frugal one inside a full one, to easily be able to access the pup-*.sfs .

Also wise : To run ldconfig ( probably part of the devx_*.sfs ) to repair evtl. broken links by an uninstallation of a package .

Wisest : Use Puppy as a compile environment and configure --prefix=/usr/local .

[dalebednell]

HI Guys


Thanks for the response i tried fixmenus and the jwm -restart running live cd in nox and i'am able to access urxvt terminal. But still nothing on the desktop.
It's not possible to idconfig i get bash command not found i have got devx sfs on my computer but i don't know how to access it.


Thanks

[Karl Godt]

Hmm seems i wrote [ L ] ldconfig - not [ 1 | I ] idconfig . What fonts are you using in your browser ?

[Semme]

If I recall correctly, 'libc-bin' wasn't included with 528. Install it from within PPM. It contains your (L)ldconfig..