System gives me error message after trying to change icon theme

tuxfanatic

Hey all, I downloaded an icon theme from gnome-look.org to use in my system running Solus budgie. I extracted the folder and moved it usr/share/icons. Then, when I tried to change to the new icon theme in budgie desktop settings, I got the following error message:

How can I fix this issue? Thanks

JoshStrobl

It is recommended you use an icon theme that is, at the very least, provided in our repository, as you are going to run into these issues when either the icon theme you download is incomplete, or requires other icon themes not available on your system.

Log into your system using TTY (when you are at the log in screen, do Ctrl+Alt+F3, as an example). Type your username and password (your password won't get echoed back, meaning you won't see * when you type it, but it is indeed being entered). Once you're in the tty, do: gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.interface 'icon-theme' and remove the icon theme from /usr/share/icons. Then switch back to the log in screen (typically Ctrl+Alt+F1) and try logging in again.

tuxfanatic

Hey Josh, thanks for the reply. I decided to reinstall the OS (before you replied) and I believe I screwed up even more now, because when I booted into the live USB and finished going through all the steps in the installer, I got an error saying something like "the kernel is already in use" or something along those lines. So I plugged out the USB, and when I tried booting up my computer normally, I got this message:

So because reinstalling Solus didn't work, and I can't get into my original Solus install, I'm going to have to try installing windows then maybe installing Solus again after that. Anyways, thanks for your help.

EDIT: I took another shot at installing Solus and it worked! I think etcher wasn't able to burn the ISO properly the first time, but it worked when I tried again. Thankfully I didn't have to install windows.

brent

tuxfanatic truly gut-wrenching story as your poor narrator (me) has seen this "sad face" screen a couple times.
When you get the sad face you are d-e-a-d.

You got sad face by shoehorning foreign packages into system files. My sad face comes from normal stuff like opening an email or or launching an app or nautilus work. Neither here nor there.

Josh gave you some advice but you were too impatient to try it. I understand, I am totally that way too: fix mode.

So you re-install. You make aother live usb. Instead of the normal "stuck at examination of device" (whatever) error that's common, you get an error I never heard of: "kernel in use"? Something is occupying the kernel outside of the live usb?? Huh??

I assume you shut down when you 'plugged out' your usb and rebooted. The "can't find a disk to mount" screen is a classic bios. A greatest hit. An oldie but a regular goodie, like Free Bird.....it means boot record gone or usb never installed this. you got this.

so......you tried a mystery app to burn yet your 3rd live usb and had success. As a result you had success in reinstalling solus proper. A reboot, as you specified at the end, suprsingly cures a lot.

You know what was really unusual about this story? Nothing 🙁

I'm a 3-4 yrs linux noobie and this is so Linux. It creates an ulcer but it does not create an ulcer in the ballpark of using win****s. But I'm not ever going back to MS world, like you, so there's that pioneer appeal with the big penguin🙂