On 09/09/15 21:59, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Basil Chupin
[09-09-15 03:32]: On 08/09/15 21:33, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Basil Chupin
[09-08-15 03:53]: [...] (My main system [desktop] is now so messed up that I am not moving back or forward until I am sure that the kernel is OK; I am using working bits on the laptop and some working bits on the desktop to get by at the moment. The kernel is only partly to blame: I tried to recover the system on the desktop by installing the latest tumbleweed but this wiped out one of my main partitions with all my data on it by formatting it with BTFRS, or whatever that disaster is called, even though I told the partitioner not to touch that partition.) What is the bug number? Must make sure that this does not happen here. Oh, don't YOU start with this "what is the bug report number" thing! :-)
One doesn't cry 'wolf' on the first balls-up so one posts here and sees if someone else had similar problem.
Another thing, reporting bugs has an entry which "asks" if the balls-up is reproducible and I am not about to try and 'reproduce' it on whatever remains of my working system. You cannot answer that you don't know and will not attempt?
There are a number of reasons why any attempt to recover did not occur - but may now occur in the next day or so. When you have your wife getting all excited about the delivery of her new car, preparing for an interstate trip, plus a few other matters, and in the middle of all this one gets a stuff up of your system which was working almost without a hitch for years, the mind goes into "safety first" mode :-) . When I was working I was able to handle, say, a dozen problems at the same time... but no more nowadays :-) . Just dealing with the wife on a daily basis is enough. But then add something like kernel 4.2.0 and then end-of-August release of Tumbleweed and ...... :'( .
And in any case I don't have the time to even restore my system/systems because of other activities requiring my attention. You have time to complain here and rant about ...., but no time to attempt to get corrections made to the system that others might not face the same problems as you. Sounds a bit selfish or perhaps just an opportunity to cast derision upon the works of other.
I cast no derision "upon the works of other[s]". Never have, never willl - so do not put words into my mouth or provide others who may have read your post with such demeaning information. Your wording actually is a criticism of anyone who raises a question about or disagrees with anything being put forward in any of the openSUSE software. Of course you are not the only one expressing such ideas. I have dealt with programmers - when they were actually called programmers, which they are, before they started calling themselves "engineers" ("engineers", for Chrissake!) - but I won't mention here what the last one I had to deal cost the organisation I was with because HE knew what was best for the end user and not what we asked him what we wanted. Are the little bells about KDE5,also known as Plasma 5, starting to tinkle?
So there.
so here
Which, of course reminds me of the skit by Abbott and Costello where Abbott bets Costello $10 that he (Abbott) can prove that Costello in not here - that is, in front of Abbott. Naturally Costello accepts this be as he simply cannot lose this bet! And so (with pardons to the original version which I am paraphrasing) ..... ABBOTT (to Costello): Are in Paris? COSTELLO: No! ABBOTT: Are in London? COSTELLO: No! ABBOTT: Are in Tokyo? COSTELLO: No! ABBOTT: Well, if you are not in Paris and not in London and not in Tokyo then you must be somewhere else, right? COSTELLO: Yes, right! ABBOTT: Well, if you are somewhere else then you cannot be here, right? Now give me the $10.
:-) :^??
Sorry, but what exactly does ":^??" convert to as an emoticon? BC -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org