Re: [CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

2008-06-12 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Jun 5, 2008, at 10:23, Johnny Hughes wrote: I would initially start out but looking at any 3rd party installed products. One of our third party applications (SlickEdit) has been having its share of issues. We finally had an error message (Xlib: resource ID allocation space exhausted)

Re: [CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

2008-06-05 Thread Johnny Hughes
Alfred von Campe wrote: I've been a big fan of CentOS for a while, and didn't have many issues with CentOS 4.X over the past few years. However, since moving to CentOS 5.1 a few weeks ago, I have received more problem reports from my users than in the last year and a half on CentOS 4.X. I've

[CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

2008-06-04 Thread Alfred von Campe
I've been a big fan of CentOS for a while, and didn't have many issues with CentOS 4.X over the past few years. However, since moving to CentOS 5.1 a few weeks ago, I have received more problem reports from my users than in the last year and a half on CentOS 4.X. I've previously reported

Re: [CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

2008-06-04 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Wed, June 4, 2008 4:14 pm, Alfred von Campe wrote: snip So, does anyone else have the perception that CentOS 5.X (particularly Gnome) is a little less stable than CentOS 4.X or is it just me? Alfred, I can tell you that five (very different) desktop machines that I manage work without any

Re: [CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

2008-06-04 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Marko A. Jennings wrote: On Wed, June 4, 2008 4:14 pm, Alfred von Campe wrote: snip So, does anyone else have the perception that CentOS 5.X (particularly Gnome) is a little less stable than CentOS 4.X or is it just me? I can tell you that five (very different) desktop machines that I

Re: [CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

2008-06-04 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Wed, June 4, 2008 4:52 pm, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Marko A. Jennings wrote: On Wed, June 4, 2008 4:14 pm, Alfred von Campe wrote: snip So, does anyone else have the perception that CentOS 5.X (particularly Gnome) is a little less stable than CentOS 4.X or is it just me? I can tell you

Re: [CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

2008-06-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:14 -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote: snip I would suspect the hardware or some configuration issues. But these issues started cropping up after I upgraded our existing systems to CentOS 5.1. The upgrade was a complete reinstall via a kickstart script (I

Re: [CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

2008-06-04 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Alfred von Campe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been a big fan of CentOS for a while, and didn't have many issues with CentOS 4.X over the past few years. However, since moving to CentOS 5.1 a few weeks ago, I have received more problem reports from my users than

Re: [CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

2008-06-04 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Jun 4, 2008, at 16:59, William L. Maltby wrote: As to your specific problem, since hardware is not common among the users reporting problems, I suspect that the only commonality is the configuration *beginning* with the automated install. My thought is there is some flaw in it that becomes