Live update 18/9

There's another live update today. Just a single change in it.

The description says:
"Apply this patch to make xfdesktop perform better"

I haven't checked what the actual fix is but I guess prior warning for those who've updated their xfce.

 

ok it contains a single rpm:
xfdesktop-acer-lp-1652.mcs_patched.i386.rpm

ok indeed beware if you've updated your desktop and not backed it up. the rpm overwrites various files:

/usr/bin/xfdesktop2
links in /usr/share/applications/*back.desktop *more.desktop
/usr/share/backgrounds/images/[various]
/usr/share/desktop-directories/*

Doesn't do anything else. worth skipping this one if you're using the xfce desktop.... and no reason not to install it if you're using the acer desktop.

 

Well, those warnings have good reasons!

I am using the 'acer' desktop, but like many others I did enable the right-click menu and have made several modifications to my system. After applying the live update and rebooting, my system has pretty much gone to hell!

All I see of my screen is a greenish noise. The search bar is still visible, and also the menu bar at the bottom, however several tray-icons are missing.

Right click doesn't do anything, alt-F2 doesn't do anything, Internet connection is not working (I can open firefox by searching for something in the search box on the desktop)...

So without any apparant way to get into the terminal, I have no idea if I can fix this...

I thought of the recovery disk, but for some reason it freezes when I try to make a usb recover disk. sigh...

Hope someone can help!

 

Thanks for the warning, I'll be holding off on this update until it gets sorted out.

 

I had to restore my A1 earlier and just performed a live update straight after the install completed. After all the updates were installed including the new one today I only see 2 icons in each section on the default acer gui. When you expand the individual sections "connect", "work" etc all the icons are there, but scattered around the place.

Haven't yet noticed much performance difference with the update or anything else to that matter.

 

I installed the update and have had no problems... all icons in place... but then again i haven't really mucked with my system... yet!

 

I had the same problems that jammer had with this update. I even used the system recovery disc, and tried to redownload the update, but the same thing happened. Back to the system recovery disc...again. I'm not going to install this update for the time being.

 

Hi Picklehead,
You can use the search bar to do a search for 'Terminal' and then execute the terminal from the list that is returned.