Xubuntu useless after reboot

[Lou Katz]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 08:08:36AM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> Things are slightly less dire than I thought at first.  There is only
> one usable account on the machine, but I wondered if I was looking at
> problems in user settings.  So I created a second account, and viola!
> I can type, and I have a workable workspace switcher.
> 
> I seldom have to fool with all this configuration stuff, and have no
> expertise.  I wonder if I'm going to have to switch over to the new
> account completely, or if there's any hope of isolating the problem.
> 

I had a similar problem. I use xfce4. It turned out that all the panels were
'lost'. I finally discovered that when I restored tham, all were fine.

Try right clicking on the desktop and in a terminal window type:
	xfce4-panel& 
for the xfce4 desktop. There are probably equivalents for Gnome, KDE, etc.


You could also try ctrl-alt-F1 to get a console login to see what is
going on.


> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It gets more and more weird.  Chrome browser windows *do* have
> > maximize, minimize and close boxes, but it only responds to the close
> > box.  I can type at appropriate places in gmail in that browser.
> > Firefox refuses focus so I cannot type, but it responds to some mouse
> > clicks.
> >
> > What seems oddest to me is that chrome on the afflicted machine runs
> > gmail, but gmail there seems to have lost the contact list.  I'm using
> > Chrome on the laptop and when I type "u" in an address, it
> > auto-completes to this list.  The now-afflicted desktop used to do the
> > same, but no longer.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> We had a large power outage in this part of California, and I had to
> >> shut down my desktop as the UPS became drained.  All seemed normal.
> >>
> >> Power is restored, but it's far from normal.
> >>
> >> The workspace switcher that had 10 workspaces now has 1, but the
> >> controls say it has 10.
> >>
> >> Most windows do not have the usual decorations: minimize, go away and
> >> so on.  My Tomboy notes do have the decorations, but they are inactive
> >> on some of the notes.  But not all of them.
> >>
> >> Terminal windows refuse to take the focus, so I don't have a command
> >> line under X (Ctl-alt-f1 works okay).  None of my X windows respond to
> >> the keyboard, although it works fine at login and at the console
> >> windows.
> >>
> >> The system is pretty much useless in this state.  I had to enter this
> >> message from mt laptop.   I'd sure appreciate some help.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Kevin O'Gorman
> >>
> >> programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software.
> >> Please consider the environment before printing this email.
> >
> >
> >
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