25 Apr
2014
25 Apr
'14
1:40 a.m.
On 04/25/2014 03:52 AM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 24. April 2014 schrieb Baron:
Hi
Nice to find 42 emails in your inbox when you wake up in the morning :-)
Baron, this is what I would do/would advice your friend.
It's not satisfying from a technical point of view, .....but.....since
Alexandre is coming out with a brand new remaster in a couple of days, I
would ignore the whole tutti and backup what needs to be backed up and
install the << new >> remaster as soon as it's available..
Alternative, he can re-install the old one in a << separate >>
partition. Just install, no configuration or updates.
This may or may not help to determine if hardware is involved, and then
take it up from there.
That is, if he is the tinkering-kind-of-person
Thirdly, the obvious choice, use his backup to restore the defect one.
That's what backups are for.
But I bet my last dollar he hasn't a backup, otherwise he wouldn't have
asked for assistance.
I am guilty of that crime too :-) more often than not !
And now I have to go. It's an important day for my grand-son , and I am
supposed to be there
See you guys later
Have fun
Tony
On Thursday 24 April 2014 00:59:52 Alexandre
wrote:
And he is sure his harddrive is OK?
Nik
> On 04/24/2014 01:38 AM, Baron wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> Just had a friend call me and tell me that all the text in his
>> applications and logout window has disapeared !
>>
>> He is running Alexandre's PCLinuxOS with the Trinity desktop.
>>
>> I don't have a clue where to look to sort this issue.
>> Any suggestions welcome.
>>
>> Thanks in advance:
Hi All,
I've been round and had a look at his machine and seen the problem 1st
hand.
In every application the letter on the menu bar that has an underscore
either at the begining or end has the letter missing.
Many of the folders have no visible name, but if you click to rename the
folder a blue bar appears the same length as the name if you could see
it. Most of the flyout menus have either the full name missing or part
of the name. There are spaces in the menus that a completly blank.
On logout there are similar missing letters and blank spaces.
I also discovered that a number of items on the desktop were
marked "Read Only" and making them read/write allowed the app called to
work.
Hope this helps to find out what he has done. He swears that the last
thing he did was to copy pictures off his phone before going on
holiday, at which time everything was working. Since calling me he has
tried to update his machine by running Synaptic, without any success.
Thanks Guys: