I have been using Fedora (at home) for about 2 years now, to great satisfaction. However, I still refer to my computer as a magic typewriter (that is to say; I am not that computer savvy), so please be patient with me.
I am using Fedora 17 with KDE as my desktop environment. Last Friday I tried to get the open office British-English spellchecker to work, which was installed but not active. I managed to get it to work after removing and reinstalling hunspell-en-US and THEN installing hunspell-en-GB (following instructions I found online). This seemed to work. After this I updated all packages that needed updating. It seems one of these two processes disrupted something in my system. All seemed fine, until about 10 minutes later when dolphin (the file explorer for KDE) gave an error that the kio file was missing. I then decided to reboot (that solved the same issue in the past). However, upon reboot I encountered at least four problems:
1. Right after booting I got the message that the True font was missing
2. The system didnt start but just froze up at the screen with the message about the true font missing, however, I could switch to a terminal with crtl+alt+f2
3. The system wouldnt connect to the internet
4. The system wouldnt mount usb devices
The first problem was one I encountered before and was easily solved (if you experience similar problems, this seems to be the solution: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...99&postcount=2)
However, that just meant that upon a boot I get a completely black screen (in place of the login screen). An issue which I havent been able to solve. It seems my video card is recognized and the relevant drivers are installed and loaded. Using yum check indicates that no dependencies are missing. I can boot into safe mode (getting a root command terminal), but the system freezes up as soon as I press crtl+d (to return to normal mode).
As I didnt have a back-up of the document I was working on when all this occurred, my main focus was getting it to mount a usb drive. I managed to do that with the sudo mount t auto /dev/sdb1 /media command (the usb drive was listed by the fdisk l command), but it still wont auto mount.
As for the internet connection; with a lot of fiddling around I managed to get network manager working, load all the drivers for the wireless card again (realtek chipset, which I sometimes need to load again after an update) and get all the hardware to work. However, while it can scan for wireless networks (using iwlist), it wont connect to them (giving the error-message: Method "GetAll" with signature "ss" on interface "org.freedesktop.Dbus.Properties" doesn't exist). This happens both when I use iwconfig or nmcli.
I unfortunately do not have access to a wired connection (tho googling the error message gives me a lot of thread of people who experience the same issue with an Ethernet connection).
So, I am rather stuck right now. Without an internet connection my options for solving this are rather limited (ie. I cant download a package or patch that would fix it), but I havent been able to find any solutions for my internet problem online. Since I now have all my documents backed-up (back-upped?) it would be possible to just start with a fresh install of Fedora 18. However, that would be a pain in the rear (setting everything up again as I liked it) and feel like defeat.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what else I could try?
I am using Fedora 17 with KDE as my desktop environment. Last Friday I tried to get the open office British-English spellchecker to work, which was installed but not active. I managed to get it to work after removing and reinstalling hunspell-en-US and THEN installing hunspell-en-GB (following instructions I found online). This seemed to work. After this I updated all packages that needed updating. It seems one of these two processes disrupted something in my system. All seemed fine, until about 10 minutes later when dolphin (the file explorer for KDE) gave an error that the kio file was missing. I then decided to reboot (that solved the same issue in the past). However, upon reboot I encountered at least four problems:
1. Right after booting I got the message that the True font was missing
2. The system didnt start but just froze up at the screen with the message about the true font missing, however, I could switch to a terminal with crtl+alt+f2
3. The system wouldnt connect to the internet
4. The system wouldnt mount usb devices
The first problem was one I encountered before and was easily solved (if you experience similar problems, this seems to be the solution: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...99&postcount=2)
However, that just meant that upon a boot I get a completely black screen (in place of the login screen). An issue which I havent been able to solve. It seems my video card is recognized and the relevant drivers are installed and loaded. Using yum check indicates that no dependencies are missing. I can boot into safe mode (getting a root command terminal), but the system freezes up as soon as I press crtl+d (to return to normal mode).
As I didnt have a back-up of the document I was working on when all this occurred, my main focus was getting it to mount a usb drive. I managed to do that with the sudo mount t auto /dev/sdb1 /media command (the usb drive was listed by the fdisk l command), but it still wont auto mount.
As for the internet connection; with a lot of fiddling around I managed to get network manager working, load all the drivers for the wireless card again (realtek chipset, which I sometimes need to load again after an update) and get all the hardware to work. However, while it can scan for wireless networks (using iwlist), it wont connect to them (giving the error-message: Method "GetAll" with signature "ss" on interface "org.freedesktop.Dbus.Properties" doesn't exist). This happens both when I use iwconfig or nmcli.
I unfortunately do not have access to a wired connection (tho googling the error message gives me a lot of thread of people who experience the same issue with an Ethernet connection).
So, I am rather stuck right now. Without an internet connection my options for solving this are rather limited (ie. I cant download a package or patch that would fix it), but I havent been able to find any solutions for my internet problem online. Since I now have all my documents backed-up (back-upped?) it would be possible to just start with a fresh install of Fedora 18. However, that would be a pain in the rear (setting everything up again as I liked it) and feel like defeat.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what else I could try?