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kilaueabart wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2020 9:11 pm I found an interesting new way to screw Fienix up.
I was reading email but at some point I lost the internet connection. I closed the browser and tried to relaunch it but couldn't. So I tried to restart fienix, but clicking on the power button (or anything else) had no effect.
I did the ctrl^alt^F systemctl restart lightdm thing and got back into fienix. As it came up, I got two error messages: "The panel encountered a problem while loading MateWeatherAppletFactory::MateWeatherApplet" and "The panel encountered a problem while loading NetspeedAppletFactory::NetspeedApplet," both with an offer to delete the applet, which I declined.
Then back to email where I managed to read my digital newspaper from beginning to end, but when I tried to go to the next email item, dead again.
At some point I noticed the weather thing in the upper panel was reporting 0°. I thought resetting the panel might be part of the answer. I was warned that I would lose my custom settings but misinterpreted that to mean I would have to fill in things like time zone all over again, not that top and bottom panels would completely disappear.
When I rebooted I was able to get InterWeb Browser going by clicking something in fienix's home that brought up a non-functioning "Windows Browser" which I opened with "Another tool" namely Interweb Browser. But I was still having "Connecting ..."-forever internet problems.
I managed to get a terminal somehow and hoped maybe I could do something with apt-get update--would it notice I needed a panel? But lack of internet ruled that out too.
So I'm back in Ubuntu which rarely loses the internet, and wondering if maybe the only way to fix fienix is to clean the partition and copy the image back in. Any other ideas?

caseycullen wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2020 4:48 am @Roland: In Synaptic, please click on vlc, then Package menu, and Force Version. Choose the 3.0.10 version. After vlc 3.0.10 has installed, install vlc-fienix. If Synaptic does not allow you to Force Version to 3.0.10 you may need to remove and reinstall the vlc package.

@Roland: If your /home subdirectories are still not populating when you create a new user, try entering the following command after you add the user:

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su - username -c /usr/bin/xdg-user-dirs-update

root@Fienix:/home/fienix# /usr/sbin/useradd -m tux1
root@Fienix:/home/fienix# cd /home/tux1
root@Fienix:/home/tux1# dir
root@Fienix:/home/tux1# su - tux1 -c /usr/bin/xdg-user-dirs-update
/home/tux1/Desktop was removed, reassigning DESKTOP to homedir
/home/tux1/Downloads was removed, reassigning DOWNLOAD to homedir
/home/tux1/Templates was removed, reassigning TEMPLATES to homedir
/home/tux1/Public was removed, reassigning PUBLICSHARE to homedir
/home/tux1/Documents was removed, reassigning DOCUMENTS to homedir
/home/tux1/Music was removed, reassigning MUSIC to homedir
/home/tux1/Pictures was removed, reassigning PICTURES to homedir
/home/tux1/Videos was removed, reassigning VIDEOS to homedir
root@Fienix:/home/tux1# dir
root@Fienix:/home/tux1# 

caseycullen wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2020 4:15 am I'm don't know what may have caused this issue. If you don't have a panel/menu, you can press "Alt + F2" to bring up the Run dialog, then type fienix-desktop-reset and click the checkbox that says "run in terminal", and click the "Run" button. This will reset panels and applets back to defaults.
-Casey

caseycullen wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2020 4:48 am @kilaueabart: Please install ibus, ibus-gtk3, and whatever modules you want such as ibus-anthy (Japanese) and ibus-hangul (Korean). Hopefully this is what you're looking for, let me know.

caseycullen wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2020 4:48 am @everyone: I pushed several updates to Fienix Soar. Updating from a Soar image should go smoothly and I think I tested everything adequately but let me know if you run into any issues.