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Carl E. Hartung wrote:
Hi All,
Am I the only one having serious problems getting 9.3 to straighten out and fly right? I don't want to drag everybody through all of the gory details again, but the problems I've experienced are:
- apps crashing when menus are clicked - the file system getting severely corrupted, twice (ext3 and Reiserfs) - artifacts (leftover bits and pieces of windows) remaining after resizing windows and closing programs - in gnome, netapplet closing 'suddenly' when I log in - SuSE Watcher & Plugger not 'embedding' correctly in the panel - knights.desktop came with 'illegal characters' in the mime type - SuSEconfig laboring extensively over gtk2 (takes a looooong time) - there are others, but this is getting too long already...
These problems aren't being caused by hardware: I've got two other OSs installed and running beautifully (XP Pro is a business necessity and SuSE 9.2 Pro.) I have only two hard disks attached... no cdrom or dvd (I access these through the LAN when I need them), no usb devices, no add-in graphics card, no directly attached printer, etc.. I have ample memory (512MB) consisting of a single Crucial name brand module with lifetime warranty that tests fine with memtest86. My drives are SMART enabled and reporting nothing out of the ordinary. My fans are all running and the mainboard voltages and temperatures are well within spec.
The installation runs fine, as does YOU and all the dependencies are met. I've tried it 'stock' plus YOU a couple of times, and a couple of other times with supplementary upgrades of KDE and GNOME.
The only success I seem to have had (so far) is avoiding a third occurrance of the file system corruptions. I've had 9.3 running as an alternate to 9.2 now for a couple of days and I've spent several hours solid updating and fine-tuning it; lots of logging in and out and shutting down and restarting and the file systems have remained intact. However, the other problems are persisting and making it impossible to use 9.3 for daily work.
So, I guess my questions are really these:
1. Am I the only one this has been happening to? 2. Is there light at the end of this tunnel? 3. Is 9.3 worth my time and effort since 9.2 is being so nice?
I'd really appreciate hearing your ideas and opinions.
TIA & regards,
- Carl
I haven't experienced any of the problems I had with 9.1 --> 9.2 upgrades, 9.2 --> 9.3 x86 and x86_64 have been solid. A few weeks ago the HD in the x86_64 laptop died so I did a fresh install without problems. I run kernel.org vanilla kernels (2.6.13-rc6), the latest NVIDIA driver (on x86) and lots of other bits of software I built and installed from sources or downloaded binaries like OOO.org and firefox. My hardware on x86 ... USB printer, USB scanner, CH Joystick and pedals, plus a crappy Skypephone for which I can't raise anyone from the dead at their support, crappy received audio and possibly dead hardware bits. On the x86_64 laptop ... webcam, kodak DX3600 camera, USB 120G HD (at times these get moved to the x86 box) and a bluetooth dongle. I have 2 Mandriva LE 2005 boxes, one that loses its keyboard from time to time, whether it's PS/2 or USB connected, it used to work OK, at first I thought it was software, probably kernel, but I suspect it's the keyboard I bought some months ago when the other one died. I still have a gut suspicion that your hardware is on the edge of tolerance. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks