Re: [SLE] 9.3 woes (the epilogue?)

From: Sid Boyce (sboyce_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 08/12/05

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    Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:21:35 +0100
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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. 

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Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot
Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support 
Specialist
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