[SLE] 9.3 woes (the epilogue?)
From: Carl E. Hartung (suselinux_at_cehartung.com)
Date: 08/12/05
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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 01:09:03 -0400
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
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