Allegedly, on or about 28 July 2014, Barry sent: > You were right. I booted with a rescue disk and fsck found many errors > on the root partition. many Anyway they seemed to be fixable, and on > rebooting, I was able to reinstall yum and then other stuff. > > The only problem is that now I lost my top and bottom panels. This is > an XFCE spin, and I wanted to take a look at it. I liked what I saw, > but I don't really trust the drive. it's an old laptop, and probably > not worth a lot more time. To have a look, without wasting money on a new hard drive, you could try making an install that runs off a USB flash drive. They're cheap, and immediately re-useable, if you don't thrash it to death with your test. Sure, a live DVD could give you a trial look, too. But it's such a painfully slow medium. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org