Disappearing programs

[fobsta]

Hail fellow Zaurians

I turned on my Zaurus today after about a week of it being suspended and it seems like all the programs I installed myself (xmms, Strategic Command, Python etc) have disappeared  

I wasn't mucking around all I did was suspend it.

The internal storage is quite full so I don't think the programs have been wiped from memory but icons and tabs have disapeared. I can't start programs from the command line either.

Does anyone know how to fix this? Without reinstalling everything?

thanks in advance

[zenyatta]

Puzzling. If they were installed to a CF/SD card try running "ipkg-link mount /mnt/card" or "ipkg-link mount /mnt/cf".

z.

[Elleomea]

Is the RAM disk being mounted? What are the contents of /mnt/ram?

[fobsta]

Elleomea - ' Is the RAM disk being mounted? What are the contents of /mnt/ram?'

yes ls /mnt/ram produces 'opt usr' but the contents of these directories only have information relating to progrmas that I have installed since all my icons and tabs disappeared

zenyatta -' Puzzling. If they were installed to a CF/SD card try running "ipkg-link mount /mnt/card" or "ipkg-link mount /mnt/cf".
'
gives

ls: /mnt/cf/usr/lib/ipkg/info/*.list: No such file or directory

Could my disappearing icons be related to taking the compact flash from the Zaurus (where I had installed packages from) and putting it in my camera and probably deleting the 'usr' directory at the root of the cf card. Then putting that card back in my Z?

again thanks in advance

ps maybe my stupidity is telling me to upgrade to OZ 3.5.1  

[Elleomea]

Try visiting /mnt/cf with no CF card in, do you get the same as you get in /mnt/ram? If so the ram disk isn't being mounted and it's only writting to the 14mb main image (the pretend 'rom').