Do you get useful errors messages if you try and launch respective
applications from within a terminal?
Cheers,
Steven Sykes
Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury
Chair, linux.conf.au 2019 conference
Twitter: @linuxconfau2019 <https://twitter.com/linuxconfau2019>
Web: lca2019.linux.org.au/ <https://lca2019.linux.org.au/>
On 28/03/18 12:55, [email protected] wrote:
Yesterday on boot up and numerous reboots, Mint 18 Mate confronted me with something
I've never seen before. A few icons had disappeared from the dock (network,
update). Multiple applications that I use every day refused to launch. They gave no
error messages. Trying to launch from the GUI, the "Starting (name of
application) bar would appear on the panel, then after a few seconds, nothing.
Trying to launch from the terminal, nothing, even appending -v or -vv to the
command. I tried running as root via sudo, same result.
The non functioning applications included Firefox, Chromium, Thunderbird, the
network manager when called from Settings, the PDF viewer (whether invoked from
the menu or by double-clicking a .pdf document's icon), and Synaptic.
Applications that seemed to be working normally included the Caja file manager,
the display manager, Moneydance, the terminal and, as I then discovered,
apt-get.
With respect to each of the nonfunctioning applications for which I tried
apt-get install, apt-get told me it was already installed and at the latest
version.
I was able to install Midori and xpdf, and they both worked. When I then tried
removing and reinstalling Thunderbird, though, it did remove and reinstall but
it still wouldn't launch. Thunderbird's data files seem mostly OK, although
one or two of the mail sub folders may be duplicated.
I have a quite up to date backup of my home folder, so if I have to reinstall
the OS it's a nuisance rather than a tragedy, but is there any other way
forward anyone can recommend?
TIA - Andrew
Sent from my iPad
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