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Re: [trinity-users] Text Vanished

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:52:26 +0200
Am Donnerstag, 24. April 2014 schrieb Baron:
> On Thursday 24 April 2014 00:59:52 Alexandre wrote:
> > > On 04/24/2014 01:38 AM, Baron wrote:
> > > > Hi Guys,
> > > >
> > > > Just had a friend call me and tell me that all the text in his
> > > > applications and logout window has disapeared !
> > > >
> > > > He is running Alexandre's PCLinuxOS with the Trinity desktop.
> > > >
> > > > I don't have a clue where to look to sort this issue.
> > > > Any suggestions welcome.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been round and had a look at his machine and seen the problem 1st 
> hand.
> 
> In every application the letter on the menu bar that has an underscore 
> either at the begining or end has the letter missing.
> 
> Many of the folders have no visible name, but if you click to rename the 
> folder a blue bar appears the same length as the name if you could see 
> it.  Most of the flyout menus have either the full name missing or part 
> of the name.  There are spaces in the menus that a completly blank.
> On logout there are similar missing letters and blank spaces.
> 
> I also discovered that a number of items on the desktop were 
> marked "Read Only" and making them read/write allowed the app called to 
> work.
> 
> Hope this helps to find out what he has done.  He swears that the last 
> thing he did was to copy pictures off his phone before going on 
> holiday, at which time everything was working.  Since calling me he has 
> tried to update his machine by running Synaptic, without any success.
> 
> Thanks Guys:
> 


And he is sure his harddrive is OK?

Nik



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