I'm running F19 with all the latest updates. I did something as a normal user that has made my system unusable. I'm running the mate desktop and here are the issues I'm having:
1) No applets in the notification area except the date/time applet.
2) Only one of 2 Ethernet interfaces comes up. Even after rebooting.
3) The only desktop I can use is Mate, there is no option for me to choose something else.
4) Why is one network interface labeled em1 and the other enp4s4?
What I did that may have caused the problem is to change the name of the network interface as shown in nm-applet. nm-applet showed the name as enp4s4 while ifconfig showed it as p5p1. After I did this I could no longer get that interface to start. I tried deleting the interface and adding it back in and I still could not get the interface to come up. In fact at some point in time after stopping and restarting Network Manager the p5p1 interface no longer showed up in nm-applet. Finally I killed nm-applet assuming it would restart, but nothing happened. I tried to add the notification area back in, but this doesn't work. I can click on add to panel and select the notification area and click on add, but nothing happens. I even tried logging in as a different user and there was no nm-applet in the notification area. Running ps showed nm-applet to be running as the user id I was logged in as, but it didn't show up in the notification area.
So how the F*** do I get the notification area restored? and how the F*** do I get Network Manager to see and configure both network interfaces?
Of course I can re-install F19 and re-download all the updates, but I hope there is a better way than that.
Paolo
On 10/22/2013 07:04 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
- The only desktop I can use is Mate, there is no option for me to
choose something else.
What other desktops do you have installed? When you log in, if you have more than one, there should be a drop-down box listing all of them after you select your username but before you give your password.
My system gives each install its own bootloader, old grub in a partition. The old grub in the MBR will chain load to one of them depending on my menu selection.
As it turns out I checked after I sent the email and apparently I only installed Mate when I installed the OS, I was sure I had installed the default Gnome, oh well, too many systems too many OS's :-)
Paolo
On 10/22/2013 07:43 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/22/2013 07:04 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
- The only desktop I can use is Mate, there is no option for me to
choose something else.
What other desktops do you have installed? When you log in, if you have more than one, there should be a drop-down box listing all of them after you select your username but before you give your password.
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