da fuck? that's weird. anything in the logs (/var/log/mesages and so on) when you try to launch them?
On 3/28/18, [email protected] <[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 > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
