next boot after using fslint X fails to start

[Erike Magegere]

^^ This is a kubuntu problem ***
I used fslint to clean up some of my 1000's of pictures. On the next boot the desktop (two monitors) was black and the toolbars did not exist. I hav a many boot system 13.04 (3.8.0-22,21,&19), 12.10(3.5.0-28) & a fresh 13.04(3.8.0-19). it fails on all as I have a separate home partition. System recover was done by copying all the hidden files from a spare 13.04 system. On the latest incident i only restored .kde .kde4 and from .config eveolution, kde.org and natulius and the desktop came back.

[Pádraig Brady (p-draigbrady)]

Did you clean those pictures by deletion?
I suspect you selected a "dotfile" for deletion in error

[Erike Magegere (erike4)]

all my pictures are on a different drive. I thought the same thing as
fslint starts with home/eric (ny directory). So i was very careful to
start by deleting that file from the scan area. but when I rebooted x
failed again. Is there some way I can since I have narrowed the "bad" dot
or config file down to f files/directories can you give me the command for
a diff and I can fry the system and see what has been clobbered.

On 27 May 2013 08:11, Pádraig Brady <email address hidden> wrote:

> Did you clean those pictures by deletion?
> I suspect you selected a "dotfile" for deletion in error
>
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> Title:
> next boot after using fslint X fails to start
>
> Status in “fslint” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> ^^ This is a kubuntu problem ***
> I used fslint to clean up some of my 1000's of pictures. On the next
> boot the desktop (two monitors) was black and the toolbars did not exist.
> I hav a many boot system 13.04 (3.8.0-22,21,&19), 12.10(3.5.0-28) & a
> fresh 13.04(3.8.0-19). it fails on all as I have a separate home
> partition. System recover was done by copying all the hidden files from a
> spare 13.04 system. On the latest incident i only restored .kde .kde4 and
> from .config eveolution, kde.org and natulius and the desktop came back.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fslint/+bug/1184488/+subscriptions
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[Pádraig Brady (p-draigbrady)]

Well if you wanted to compare dotfiles in 2 dirs you could:

diff <(ls -1d ~/.* | sort) <(ls -1d backup/.* | sort)

When fslint runs you can also auto deselect all files in /home/....
using the selection functions. Or you could select those
to and scan the list to see if fslint has selecte/highlighted anything you didn't expect

[Erike Magegere (erike4)]

Pádraig Thank you for your help. I made a home partition in a spare
partition
and which contained all the . files and .directories. and mounted it with
fstab.
After a reboot Dropbox tried to come up and complained as the dropbox file
was not there and i noticed that the modem light was not on meaning there
*was none of the normal internet traffic on start-up. i did not go further
in verifying*
*the system ran as I wanted a clean xsession-error file to look at.*

BUT

FSlint worked ok. I will try again when i have time on my production home
*directory. So I am sorry, but it appears the problem is not reproducible *
*in a **test *environment.

On 27 May 2013 10:25, Pádraig Brady <email address hidden> wrote:

> Well if you wanted to compare dotfiles in 2 dirs you could:
>
> diff <(ls -1d ~/.* | sort) <(ls -1d backup/.* | sort)
>
> When fslint runs you can also auto deselect all files in /home/....
> using the selection functions. Or you could select those
> to and scan the list to see if fslint has selecte/highlighted anything you
> didn't expect
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1184488
>
> Title:
> next boot after using fslint X fails to start
>
> Status in “fslint” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> ^^ This is a kubuntu problem ***
> I used fslint to clean up some of my 1000's of pictures. On the next
> boot the desktop (two monitors) was black and the toolbars did not exist.
> I hav a many boot system 13.04 (3.8.0-22,21,&19), 12.10(3.5.0-28) & a
> fresh 13.04(3.8.0-19). it fails on all as I have a separate home
> partition. System recover was done by copying all the hidden files from a
> spare 13.04 system. On the latest incident i only restored .kde .kde4 and
> from .config eveolution, kde.org and natulius and the desktop came back.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fslint/+bug/1184488/+subscriptions
>

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

what is the status here?

[Erike Magegere (erike4)]

Please close as old operating system and long time ago

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

closing as requested