Not able to access Documents or Firefox on Acer Aspire One

[flatlanddan]

Hello!

I've had my Acer Aspire One for about 8 months with no issues. However, just this morning when I plugged it while it had low battery it suddenly crashed. When I restarted it, it refused to let me go online using Firefox or access any of my documents, music etc. It will let me run Open Office, Messenger, Photomaster and all my games. The terminal is also accessible. I'm running Linpus Lite. There is only the default user account on it. It hasn't shown any error messages (so I don't really have much to google, though I have tried!). When I click on Firefox or My Files it looks like it's starting to try to access them, as in I get my little spinning blue working icon, but suddenly stops. The next time I try it doesn't even get that far.

So far I've tried running down the battery, starting it plugged in, starting it only on the battery and the obvious restarts. I'm gearing up to voodoo...

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

[Segfault]

Welcome to the forums!

Try rebooting with forced fsck. In terminal type:

sudo shutdown -rF now

or, if sudo has not been not setup in your system

su -
shutdown -rF now

[flatlanddan]

Thanks for the suggestion! Sadly, no change

[Segfault]

OK, what happens if you start Firefox from terminal window? Does it complain about something?

[flatlanddan]

Baby steps, sorry...

What do I have to type into the terminal to start Firefox from it?

[Segfault]

It's firefox in my box ... may be different for re-branded releases. Does your Firefox call itself Firefox? May be also mozilla-firefox.

[flatlanddan]

I typed Firefox in and terminal started up briefly before shutting down. Typing in mozilla-firefox did nothing.

[Segfault]

I typed Firefox in and terminal started up briefly before shutting down. Typing in mozilla-firefox did nothing.

Terminal started up briefly before shutting down. Are you saying terminal crashed?

[flatlanddan]

Yes, I would assume so. Terminal flashed open for a few seconds and then was gone. When I typed in mozilla-firefox it opened terminal but did nothing.

[Segfault]

Yes, I would assume so. Terminal flashed open for a few seconds and then was gone. When I typed in mozilla-firefox it opened terminal but did nothing.

OK, we understand terminal differently, I think. Terminal is a window with command line prompt. If you start an application from there and this application crashes then terminal stays there and usually displays some error message about what just happened.