However, some odd things began to pop up: gftp (which I love) crashes. I tried to reinslall from the rpms on the CDs of the non-64 bit version of suse 9.0, which I also have. (I thought maybe the dvd disc was corrupted.) It failed too. xftp crashes. (The text-based ftp however works.) Another program I use a lot, kdvi (kde's dvi previewer for latex documents), also crashes:-(. I've recently been having problems wth kmail, and had to switch over to mozilla. I'm not sure if that's related though.
I've had similar problems, though I do not use these programs -- the only one I remember offhand was xscreensaver crashing [and taking X with it]. I know SUSE does not recommend this, but I fixed the problem in every case by downloading the source and recompiling. Also, switching to a 2.6.x kernel fixed a lot of strange crashes and kernel panics. If you're going to compile source yourself, you'll need to be aware of the following changes to the `./configure && make && make install` process: * run `./configure --prefix=/usr/local --libdir=/usr/local/lib64 --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib64` * after this, edit ./libtook and add "/lib64 /usr/lib64 /usr/local/lib64" to sys_lib_search_path_spec and to sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec There is probably a way to do that last one automatically, but I've been too lazy to look for it ;) _m _________________________________________________________________ Check out the coupons and bargains on MSN Offers! http://shopping.msn.com/softcontent/softcontent.aspx?scmId=1418