Re: [opensuse] Desktop Wierdness

David C. Rankin wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Kai Ponte wrote:
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 02:26:02 am Clive Rogers wrote:
I too had this not so long ago after an update.
I had to manually go into kmail and reset the fonts.


Well, being a windows-weenie, i first rebooted to see if anything changed. Nada.


Consider that a lesson then. In Linux you rarely have to reboot. I just checked the uptime on one of my home systems:
1:15pm up 248 days 3:09, 2 users, load average: 1.07, 0.99, 0.91

That's over 35 weeks of uptime and the last reboot was due to a UPS battery replacement.




You don't use "networkmanager" do you James? I agree on the rarely need to reboot. I have had similar uptimes in excess of 400 days, shortened only by hurricane Rita with servers using the traditional ifup method for network device control. However, I will swear that when networkmanager goes on the blink, no amount of "rcnetwork restart" "rcnetwork stop/start" or otherwise will fix it. It's disheartening, but I too try the reboot on that occasion. Trouble is -- it works...

I only use Knetworkmanager on my ThinkPad, which has both ethernet and WiFi and I also often use static configs, as well as DHCP.


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