hi,
something strange happened to my acer aspire when I turned it off yesterday -
-network centre stopped running (no internet)
-xfce4-panel crashed and would not restart
-few other minor things that I can't recall now
I've managed to rebuild the xfce4-panel from scratch. However, the network centre is dead (I click on the icon and nothing happens).
Now I've read the threads and tried all the suggested solutions:
---> clearing the directory by rm -rf ~/.gconf/system/networking did not help. On inspection, the system directory was empty, ie the networking directory was not there.
same goes for going down to the root and repeating the same.
---> And yet typing [root@localhost bin]# rpm -qa |grep -i networkmanager gives me
NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0-daily.lp.080416
NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.0-lp.0025.o.1
NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0-daily.lp.080416
NetworkManager-0.7.0-lp.0025.o.1
NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0-lp.0025.o.1
so something exists there
--> typing sudo /usr/bin/nm-applet gives a stream of messages, events and warnings, which is too long to reproduce here. Then terminal hangs up, but interestingly, when I try to open the network centre in the usual way the terminal unhangs and goes to cursor with message (nm-applet:8316): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_window_present_with_time:assertion 'GTK_IS WINDOW (window)" failed.
--> while sudo chown user:user .optsdksettings says that .optsdksettings cannot be found
any other suggestions? Thanks. It's a refurbished computer, so I've no documentation or startup disks.
Last edited by Mooooooo; 12-22-2010 at 06:44 PM.
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