Hello list, just to recall the item: SuSE 8.1, KDE 3.2..x: when logging out, I get a screen freeze. As somebody noted on the list, this happens on SuSE 8.2 as well (do not know, whether 9.0 is concerned as well). I got some useful hints, such as from Mario: ---start quote To prevent this problem at logout, add TerminateServer=false in the [X-*-Core] section of /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. ---end quote However, this is not helping at all, it is definitely not a driver/XFree problem. What is really happening: -> change in the control center some settings concerning colours, background or whatever. -> log out -> screen freeze / crash If i am logged in as root, my root reiserfs partition is corrupted, and if I am logged in as user, the user reiserfs partition is corrupted due to the necessary reset ! As long as you do not to change any settings, the screen frees does not show up. It seems (with my limited knowledge) that KDE is trying to write some configuration files at logout which makes the system going out for lunch. I am interested in your ideas... Regards, Udo
Hi Udo,
If i am logged in as root, my root reiserfs partition is corrupted, and if I am logged in as user, the user reiserfs partition is corrupted due to the necessary reset ! I am interested in your ideas...
... I don't know about that driver problem. But what I do know about is loads of problems with the combination of SuSE 9 and reiserfs! reiserfs used to be a very reliably file system which is why SuSE chose it to be default. Following my own bad experience with the combination reiserfs and SuSE 9 I can highly recommend xfs. reiserfs was great up to and including SuSE 8.2 but has trouble with 9.0. This may be different in 9.1, who knows? But until then I can only recomment xfs. And don't worry about the performance. I checked both and they're both the same. Also, if you have firewire drives attached then xfs is definitely the file system you want unless you like millions of messages of buffer overflows and a resulting corrupted filesystem on your firewire drive... Hope this helps. -- cul8er, Paul paul.foerster@gmx.net
Am Sonntag, 14. März 2004 20:00 schrieb Paul Foerster:
Hi Udo,
If i am logged in as root, my root reiserfs partition is corrupted, and if I am logged in as user, the user reiserfs partition is corrupted due to the necessary reset ! I am interested in your ideas...
... I don't know about that driver problem. But what I do know about is loads of problems with the combination of SuSE 9 and reiserfs!
reiserfs used to be a very reliably file system which is why SuSE chose it to be default. Following my own bad experience with the combination reiserfs and SuSE 9 I can highly recommend xfs. reiserfs was great up to and including SuSE 8.2 but has trouble with 9.0. This may be different in 9.1, who knows? But until then I can only recomment xfs. And don't worry about the performance. I checked both and they're both the same.
Also, if you have firewire drives attached then xfs is definitely the file system you want unless you like millions of messages of buffer overflows and a resulting corrupted filesystem on your firewire drive...
Hope this helps. -- cul8er,
Paul paul.foerster@gmx.net
That is the bug !!!!!!! (at least for now) I replaced a reiserfs partition by xfs and no more locking !! So I will change now step by step all user partitions to xfs and let the users play with kde 3.2.1. They are the best testers. If the locking does not show up again, it was indeed the reiserfs (on the kernels 2.4.19, 2.4.21, 2.4.25 and 2.6.3). Stay tuned... Udo
Paul Foerster wrote:
Hi Udo,
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... I don't know about that driver problem. But what I do know about is loads of problems with the combination of SuSE 9 and reiserfs!
reiserfs used to be a very reliably file system which is why SuSE chose it to be default. Following my own bad experience with the combination reiserfs and SuSE 9 I can highly recommend xfs. reiserfs was great up to and including SuSE 8.2 but has trouble with 9.0. This may be different in 9.1, who knows? But until then I can only recomment xfs. And don't worry about the performance. I checked both and they're both the same.
Also, if you have firewire drives attached then xfs is definitely the file system you want unless you like millions of messages of buffer overflows and a resulting corrupted filesystem on your firewire drive...
Hope this helps.
I got SuSE 9.1 and tried installing it. XFS appears to be a complete show-stopper on that front, although it *might* have been my ext3 partition. Whatever, the 9.1 install refused to work at all until I converted those partitions to ext2 (reiser would presumably also have worked). The install threw up all sorts of other problems - including a read-error on the dvd - so I backed it out again and will try again later. This has nothing to do with kde, but a lot to do with xfs :-) -- opinions personal, facts suspect. http://home.arcor.de/36bit/samba.html
Paul Foerster wrote:
Hi Udo,
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... I don't know about that driver problem. But what I do know about is loads of problems with the combination of SuSE 9 and reiserfs!
I'm running reiserfs, before with SuSE 8.1, 8.2, and now with 9.0 on several pc's, and no problem at all. I change hdds often, and use hdds from different manufacturers, and now also serial ata drives. reiserfs has proven for me to be very robust, and fast.
reiserfs used to be a very reliably file system which is why SuSE chose it to be default. Following my own bad experience with the combination reiserfs and SuSE 9 I can highly recommend xfs. reiserfs was great up to and including SuSE 8.2 but has trouble with 9.0.
again, no problem with reiserfs for my systems, also not under SuSE 9.0, none at all! <snip>
Hi Andrew,
I got SuSE 9.1 and tried installing it. XFS appears to be a complete show-stopper on that front, although it *might* have been my ext3 partition. Whatever, the 9.1 install refused to work at all until I converted those partitions to ext2 (reiser would presumably also have worked). The install threw up all sorts of other problems - including a read-error on the dvd - so I backed it out again and will try again later. This has nothing to do with kde, but a lot to do with xfs :-)
... I heard of problems with 9.1 and xfs. Since my system runs fine now with 9.0 and KDE 3.1 I see no reason to change that. So I will skip SuSE 9.1. -- cul8er, Paul paul.foerster@gmx.net
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