On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 12:58:33 +0100 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 07/07/13 09:44, Chris Walker wrote:
There is one further thing I thought I'd mention and that's the display corruption. When composing this message for example, I wanted to refer to the screen showing me the options for creating a new user. If I hover the mouse over the Control Centre icon on the taskbar, I get a repeating list of the same items all the way up the screen. I get the same thing for notifications. Is that another problem or likely to be related to this one?
This worries me. Could it be that this installation is completely SNAFUed?
It might well be ;-)
Presumably the version in the Virtual Machine doesn't behave like that?
Nope and it's machines, plural as I wanted to test my install procedure in case it was thrombosis of the keyboard. Those images are on a spare 1TB drive so that they can be seen and used from Windows 7 (the machine dual boots) so they won't be overwritten or lost in the procedure mentioned below.
Do you have a lot of time/effort/customisation/data etc tied up in this install?
Not too much, no. Apart from the usual stuff of different wallpapers, I've installed a copy of programs, one of which has to be compiled from source but it's not a big program so won't take too many minutes to do again.
Wondering if it would be an idea to format and re-install and try again? Or maybe try a live CD and see if that works OK.
If I'm going to download another CD/DVD, I'll try the latest installable version from the web site, run a hash program to make sure it's ok, and blast the old version out of the way. So as I type this, I have a 64 bit version downloading. I've also run rsync to copy all the existing files from "/" to a spare 500GB drive just in case there are some files I need. Once the download has finished I'll write it to DVD, boot into that and format the root partition and do a full install. If that exhibits the same problem, I'll grab a copy of Debian and try that ;-)