Re: [expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-04 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Norman Zhang wrote: As for the safety of upgrading, I prefer clean installs that retain /home, which I keep on a separate partition for exactly that reason. I also back up /etc and certain subdirs of /var before the install, to be able to quickly get the new system's

Re: [expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 12:32, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi James, I had one system hang, now everytime I start KDE I get KDE Session Manager (ksmserver) caused an SIGSEGV error. I deleted .kde from /root. But problem still persists. How can I fix this? with only a tiny bit of detail

[expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-02 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi Glenn, I've seen this problem with KDE under Mandrake 8.1 and 9.1 (i.e., several versions of KDE). It would be really nice if KDE would delete or re-create any files it needs during startup. Anyway, I've found that deleting several KDE related files cures the problem. I've put this

[expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-02 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi James, May I ask use another question? I don't know if it attributed to the KDE corruption. I'm seeing lots Samba sessions opened on my box, memory is taken up quickly. But no swap is used. Is there a way I can troubleshoot this further. I'm using the free command. When I do

Re: [expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-02 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Norman Zhang wrote: I'm going to increase the RAM to 1GB today. Be sure to install the enterprise version of the kernel (from the CDs or from the update mirrors), as you need to use that to access =1GB of RAM. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075

Re: [expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:26, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi James, May I ask use another question? I don't know if it attributed to the KDE corruption. I'm seeing lots Samba sessions opened on my box, memory is taken up quickly. But no swap is used. Is there a way I can troubleshoot this

[expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-02 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi Bill, I'm going to increase the RAM to 1GB today. Be sure to install the enterprise version of the kernel (from the CDs or from the update mirrors), as you need to use that to access =1GB of RAM. Thanks for your reminder. I'm using 9.0 here. Would it be safer if I upgrade to 9.1/9.2? I am

Re: [expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-02 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Norman Zhang wrote: Be sure to install the enterprise version of the kernel (from the CDs or from the update mirrors), as you need to use that to access =1GB of RAM. Thanks for your reminder. I'm using 9.0 here. Would it be safer if I upgrade to 9.1/9.2? I am not

[expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-02 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi Bill, Be sure to install the enterprise version of the kernel (from the CDs or from the update mirrors), as you need to use that to access =1GB of RAM. Thanks for your reminder. I'm using 9.0 here. Would it be safer if I upgrade to 9.1/9.2? I am not sure if the recent 9.0 kernel erratum

[expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-02 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi James, This is exactly what I am seeing. /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart would cause smbd trying to stop some arbitrary pids. For some of them I get warnings that they are not found. And shutdown fails. This doesn't happen every time I restart smbd. It seems to happen only when lots users

[expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-01 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi James, I had one system hang, now everytime I start KDE I get KDE Session Manager (ksmserver) caused an SIGSEGV error. I deleted .kde from /root. But problem still persists. How can I fix this? with only a tiny bit of detail here. You could try doing an rpm -Fvh