All of a sudden.... default files are missing ????????

[SkittleLinux18]

Yeah, that's exactly what happened. The default icons in the konqueror toolbar are gone. I can't even find them. In face, my system has decided to stop viewing .svg files. I can't preview them or open them up. In fact, the more I try to fix my icon theme problem, the more PCLOS locks up!!!

I haven't done anything that would warrant this. And everything I've been doing the past few days from help I've been getting on here wouldn't cause this. I've seen this before, back when I was on Mandriva 2008. It's as if Linux just decides to make it's own display/icon/theme changes. The first time I thought I just messed up, but this time I KNOW I didn't do anything!!! Can anyone explain this, or is this issue isolated to the Mandrake-based distrobutions?

[Freston]

It must be an epidemic, as my box all of a sudden didn't play ogg's anymore

And trying to reinstall the codexes removed everything that depended on those codexes, like k3b, Amarok and all kinds of other stuff. I HATE when that happens. It's been a couple of days now, and I still don't have a complete picture of the full extend of the damage. I was able to repair most of it, but not without cursing out loud...

[SkittleLinux18]

...It's been a couple of days now, and I still don't have a complete picture of the full extend of the damage. I was able to repair most of it, but not without cursing out loud...

Dude I hear ya. I've had more problems since then. Never, ever, ever, ever upgrade your nVidia Driver via package manager!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I did it and now the whole screen on my PCLOS system keeps flashing in this weird way. Not like on and off. More like a kaleidescope brushing in multiple directions really fast. It's doing it so bad that it has taken me 25 minutes to turn off 3d desktop. Anyway, As much as I absolutely love Linux, I really wish people were better and programing this stuff. I would say that 70 % of all my Linux problems have come as a result of updates. That's why I wont even let my Mint system run automatic updates. It seems like the second one thing is updated, 15 other things break. My entire Mandriva system was slaughtered 3 times from it back in Dec/Jan.

Anyway, the good news is Linux still rocks. Once I got 3D Desktop turned off, everything was ok. It's just a shame that I lost the my cube.... oh well.

[bigtomrodney]

The only problem I ever had with updates was the Intel X11 problem that Ubuntu had a few years back (last year?). I always had problems with Mandriva and SUSE when it came to nVidia packages but now with Ubuntu it's smooth.

[elija]

Is there an equivilent to the System Restore Points in Windows?

[SkittleLinux18]

You know, and the truth is, everything does seem to work better when 3D desktop is turned off.

[fingal]

Once in a while an upgrade, security fix or something will break packages and remove functionality. It's really annoying.

The last one I had was a couple of years ago when I installed a fix for X. My FPS went from an already modest ~2000 to ~30. I tried to fix it, but I couldn't without thinking I was going to destroy the whole setup.

I had to wait to install a new distro to fix this one. It happens.