Tale of woe: Moz .rpm from SuSE 9.0 pro CDs.
From: Henriette Kress (spamtrap.hetta_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 02/22/04
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 22:13:18 +0200
Okay, so yesterday I bit the bullet and
1) put in the firewire card,
2) connected an external HD
3) put in the SuSE 9.0 live CD (SuSE 8.1 couldn't do firewire)
4) did a full backup (just in case)
and
5) installed SuSE 9.0 over my W98 partition.
It's a tale of woe. I got pan running perhaps half an hour ago.
I started this yesterday noonish; the backup was done an hour later,
and I popped in the SuSE CD right after that.
The install went well enough, except that my printer --- doesn't.
After the install was done I added a couple nice icons to the desktop
(how _did_ you get automatic additions to the kmenu again?), copied things
off backup to /home (now on its own partition), did a bit of new install
using Yast (pan, for instance), and surfed, using moz, installed fresh off
the CD. All of a sudden, system freeze, in the middle of all of this: no
mouse, no keyboard, nothing happening on the HD.
Okay, try reboot button - no go.
Right, reset. Reboot. Black screen. How nice.
Pop in CD 1, reset again, boot into existing system. Black screen.
Reset again, install, new install. It's not like I actually had anything
to lose on that fresh install, eh? Except perhaps half an hour's worth of
icons and the like.
Got things up and running again, except again - no printer. It's a Lexmark
Optra R+ that worked nicely under SuSE 8.1, dunno what's up there, but
I'll have to figure that out next.
Back to the tale of woe: as both new partitions were borked I had
formatted /home again, so I set about adding new icons again, and copying
stuff from backup. And surfing while waiting... a pattern emerges, no?
System freeze. No keyboard, no mouse, no movement on HD, no nothing. Sigh.
Reboot? Can't. Reset. Black screen. Sigh. Pop in CD 1.
The scary part:
Install, safe setting: black screen.
Install: black screen.
Install, acpi off: black screen.
Install manual: black screen.
Knoppix 3.3: _nothing_.
W98 CD: _nothing_.
Boot into HD system: linux: black screen.
Boot into HD system: rescue: wow, she moves after all! except, she
doesn't, after she hits "setting up network
(eth0) (dhcp)", when movement ceases, totally
and completely (what's up with that?
I thought these systems were geared to be
failsafe: if nothing happens within, say, 5
minutes, skip that part and go on without
it?)
Reboot, try again. Same.
Turn machine off, let cool. Reboot, try again. Rescue system makes it past
the (dhcp) wheee! (This should NOT happen. This is linux, not windows.
What's up, suse?)
Once past that dhcp I went su, yast, runlevel editor: swich whatever
around a bit to generate a new inittab, if that's what was in fact borked
by the sudden death. After which I told it "init 5", and actually got KDE.
Except, that printer still doesn't work, and now it can't see the backup
HD, at all. Okay, let's see if it can do a fresh install _now_.
It can. And I didn't have to ditch /home, this time.
(If this hadn't worked I'd have removed hda and popped in an unformatted
one, next.)
Moral of the story:
DO NOT INSTALL MOZ 1.4 OFF THE SUSE CDs.
It can seriously bork your system. It seriously borked mine, twice,
because I didn't remember that moz + black screen had been mentioned here,
a few times.
Remembering that would have saved me _hours_ of work.
Nice things on SuSE 9.0: it sees the firewire drive. Kodeine doesn't have
black lines all over the screen, when watching DVDs (mplayer had, ditto
for xine). KDE 3.1.4 works much better than the one I pulled on top of the
3.0.5(?) install of my SuSE 8.1; I can change time/date, if I so wish,
without going into bios... I'm sure I'll find other things to be glad
about, in time.
Hetta
-- Henriette Kress, AHG Helsinki, Finland Henriette's herbal homepage: http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed
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