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	qole	2008-06-14 , 04:50
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Originally Posted by b-man

VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM!!! this just happened just after i booted into Debain just a fuew minutes ago. When the desktop loaded, all that came up was my program icons and my wallpaper. My two panels are missing and i can't get them back. When i went into the settings manager and tap on panels, nothing happens. Can you guys help? (yes i know i have a lot of questions )

I have found that I need to clean up my Debian partition regularly; I had some serious problems after a lot of activity, and a good disk-check got things fixed. I guess this is a price you pay for multi-partitioning SD cards. I found that I needed to re-install some packages, however. You might have some file corruption, too.

Boot to an OS2008 partition, and then do an fsck (the Linux equivalent of DOS chkdsk). Replace the 0 with 1 if you have your Debian partition on a different card (I forget which is which at the moment, sorry

), and replace 3 with your Debian partition number:

fsck.ext2 -y /dev/mmcblk0p3

If the disk check finds a lot of damage, you might need to go into Debian and do some "apt-get install --reinstall <packagename>" to get things fixed (replace the damaged files).

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