Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, drew wymore wrote: > > >> Can you try running the application as root or another user and see if it >> starts correctly? I am wondering if it has to do with her prefs file being >> mucked up. >> > > Drew, > > Will do later this afternoon. She has messed up the system by filling her > ~/ with copied music cd-roms. I've no idea what she did when trying to make > room on the partition. > > Strangely enough, when I tried to upgrade the system (last done 83 days > ago so I suspect the 'your system is up to date' is incorrect), it kept > failing to download links to archives and files. > > Not sure how I get everthing back to working again, but I'm open to all > advice and suggestions. > Install Ubuntu on an empty disk, then copy over the old 'home' directory?
It may serve as either a diagnostic or a fix. (I rarely stay happy with Ubuntu after more than one or two upgrades; I often take an upgrade as an opportunity to clean house on the hard drive in just this way). -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services Voice: 503-631-7815 Cell: 503-349-8432 http://www.wescottdesign.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
