diligentcircle
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I discovered something really odd and very bad in hotfix 5 (I don't know if it would happen in HF6). I'm not sure exactly what happened, so I'll tell the full story.
Oddly, there was a dynamic link in /mnt/utmp called "PanPlayer" (the same name as the folder for PanPlayer) pointing to /mnt/utmp/PNDStore. This prevented PanPlayer from running, so I did "sudo thunar" and used Thunar to delete the link. This fixed that problem, by the way, and didn't create any additional problems.
Unfortunately, I forgot to delete the link directly, so I then proceeded to empty the trash (something I always do if I inadvertently send something there). This is where things started acting odd: the bottom pane disappeared for a while, and so did a lot of other things. I thought I was going to need to hard reset, but then I got the standard "would you like to empty trash?" dialog. At this point, the menu button (the one in the bottom-left corner) and window borders were gone. I clicked Yes on the dialog, then, after contemplating a bit, decided to create a new FXCE menu and switch GUIs to see if it would help. I experienced a similar problem in minimenu which was corrected this way. But needless to say, that didn't work, and neither did a hard-reset.
So right now, XFCE works, but I can't move, resize, or maximize windows (even shift+click doesn't work), and since the menu has disappeared, I've created a new XFCE menu, which allows me to do stuff (though it looks a little bland; I wasn't sure where to find the icon that's on the default one).
I need XFCE to connect to a network, AFAIK (if there's a way to connect to a network in Minimenu, I'm all ears), but it stays connected after switching to minimenu, so I've decided I can live with it until the "final" HF6 is announced an then full flash, since I suspect that will fix the problem (maybe I'll just get the RC, but I don't want to have to update again if there's another RC, so probably not), but I do wonder if this problem has been experienced by anyone else, or if it's known of.
Oddly, there was a dynamic link in /mnt/utmp called "PanPlayer" (the same name as the folder for PanPlayer) pointing to /mnt/utmp/PNDStore. This prevented PanPlayer from running, so I did "sudo thunar" and used Thunar to delete the link. This fixed that problem, by the way, and didn't create any additional problems.
Unfortunately, I forgot to delete the link directly, so I then proceeded to empty the trash (something I always do if I inadvertently send something there). This is where things started acting odd: the bottom pane disappeared for a while, and so did a lot of other things. I thought I was going to need to hard reset, but then I got the standard "would you like to empty trash?" dialog. At this point, the menu button (the one in the bottom-left corner) and window borders were gone. I clicked Yes on the dialog, then, after contemplating a bit, decided to create a new FXCE menu and switch GUIs to see if it would help. I experienced a similar problem in minimenu which was corrected this way. But needless to say, that didn't work, and neither did a hard-reset.
So right now, XFCE works, but I can't move, resize, or maximize windows (even shift+click doesn't work), and since the menu has disappeared, I've created a new XFCE menu, which allows me to do stuff (though it looks a little bland; I wasn't sure where to find the icon that's on the default one).
I need XFCE to connect to a network, AFAIK (if there's a way to connect to a network in Minimenu, I'm all ears), but it stays connected after switching to minimenu, so I've decided I can live with it until the "final" HF6 is announced an then full flash, since I suspect that will fix the problem (maybe I'll just get the RC, but I don't want to have to update again if there's another RC, so probably not), but I do wonder if this problem has been experienced by anyone else, or if it's known of.
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