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On Friday 12 August 2005 06:09, 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
Try installing an DVD drive on the machine and reinstall i have found install data sometimes gets clobbered over network installs . -- If Bill Gates had gotten LAID at High School do YOU think there would be a Microsoft ? Of course NOT ! You gotta spend a lot of time at your school Locker stuffing underware up your ass to think , I am going to take on the worlds Computer Industry -------:heard on Cyber Radio.:-------