acer one aspire linpus question

[xilbus]

Hi everyone,

Got the litle acer one aspire laptop with Linpus, got to the advanced section with
xfce-setting-show

got to the Add/Remove Software section and by mistake removed the xfce interface. Wanted to see if gnome would get setup.

now i boot up to a black screen with the scross hair mouse pointer, I cant do anything. Is there a way to get the interface back ?

Thanks

[rokytnji]

Don't know how to recover your desktop. Here is one suggestion.

Acer Aspire One Linux recovery DVD available for download

Another would be to install
Easy Peasy - Ubuntu for Netbooks

Or
Eeebuntu Official Site - Main

I have never ran Linpus or rpm based distro so I am not familiar with the command for root in terminal to restore XFCE on such a distro. Maybe somebody running Fedora or such will jump in and help you out. My above suggestions are just alternative options. Nothing more. Good Luck.

[xilbus]

Thanks for your reply. I was hoping to get a way into text based mode in order to reinstall the xfce gui.

If theres no way then ill reinstall via usb

[rokytnji]

There is probably a way. I just am not familiar enough with the command for your distro is all. Give it a day to see if anybody more knowledgeable than me can give you the command.

[jos_dk]

Hi,

Maybe this is too late to help you, but in that case maybe this is usefull for others having te same problem. If you have access to a command line you could probably reinstall xfce by issuing this command:

sudo yum install xfce

If you end up in a graphical screen with no menus and cannot leave it by the usual ctrl-alt-F1 command (which seems diisabled by default on these Acer Aspire One machines) then a solution would be to temporarily boot using a live distribution (from usb or cdrom) and modify a few settings files by hand (see also this post on www dot linuxquestions dot org/questions/linux-laptop-and-netbook-25/no-console-in-linpus-lite-691693/
(sorry for this strange notation, but the forum does not allow me to insert valid url's because I just joined ...)

edit /etc/inittab and allow one or more mingetty commands that are specified at the end of this file

Also you need to edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf and set the DontVTSwitch to "no". Default is "yes" on this machine, which disables the possibility to switch to text mode, even if the getty commands are activated in /etc/inittab ! (usefull to make it fool-proof, but a problem if you have to fix things manually in text mode).


regards,

Jos.