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

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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:44:44 +0100

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 .

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