Hi,
Last night I finally got around to installing LM7.2 on my main system and today
am both pleased and disappointed. Installed 100% of developper class.
On the whole, 7.2 looks great. The only install problem was the failure to find
my Intel Ether Pro at 0x210,11.
After a bit of use, the system now gives me all sorts of errors...
First, some info:
[root@localhost sysconfig]# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 295564 89798 190506 32% /
/dev/hdb1 297603 21013 261220 7% /hd/b1
/dev/hdb3 1585000 273057 1230018 18% /hd/b3
/dev/hdb6 9121903 6261014 2387685 72% /hd/b6
/dev/hda7 6151076 2690564 3148052 46% /home
/dev/sda1 2063504 4 1958680 0% /sd/a1
/dev/sdc1 495666 2586 467481 1% /sd/c1
/dev/sdd1 325154 141057 167305 46% /sd/d1
/dev/hda6 3020140 1300624 1566100 45% /usr
/dev/hdb5 2970455 1571661 1245177 56%
/usr/local
[root@localhost sysconfig]# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/hda1 partition 248968 0 -3
/dev/sdb1 partition 1034216 0 -4
# sdb1 was added before doing the install.
>From top:
8:52am up 9:22, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.09, 0.09
118 processes: 117 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 1.5% user, 3.5% system, 0.0% nice, 94.9% idle
Mem: 261664K av, 252536K used, 9128K free, 0K shrd, 2344K buff
Swap: 1283184K av, 0K used, 1283184K free 109576K
cached
On my older system, upgrade took over 24 hours, so I decided to reformat / and
/usr and install vs upgrade.
At startup, memory usage was 258K(!); now, with loads of stuff running, it's
only 252K.
I have a few applications started; but when I now try to start anything, I get:
Sorry - The KDE Panel
! Couldn't launch <application>
Some applications report:
DCOP communications error (KDE Control Module)
X There was some error setting up inter-process
communications for KDE. The message returned
by the system was:
Could not read network connection list.
Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!
[root@localhost sysconfig]# ps auxww | grep dcop
pfortin 20210 0.0 1.7 13856 4668 ? S Nov17 0:00 kdeinit:
dcopserver
root 21178 0.0 1.7 13796 4616 ? S 01:26 0:00 kdeinit:
dcopserver
Clicking OK then gives the application (i.e., Panel Menu>Configure>Settings...);
but the Apply doesn't do anything (such as changing Location from Bottom to
Top).
cron does not appear to be running anymore (see uptime in signature):
--
Linux (Up 1:57 hours) -- Reboots are for system upgrades...
Last reboot reason: 11/18/00: installed Mandrake 7.2, +2 SCSI HDs
System has been up overnight. Even Netscape 4.76 does not appear to check mail
at requested intervals.
Could this be related?:
Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily'
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 21:25:15 -0500 (EST)
DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified
slocate: this is not a valid slocate database:
/var/lib/slocate/slocate.db
[saving this post and restarting KDE...]
<sigh> Even Logout did not work; I had to Ctl+Alt+Bksp...
Now, KDE is up again; but the icons are across the top instead of down the left
side. Even though "Align Icons Vertically on Desktop" was set, toggling and
applying it restored the appearance.
Interesting... having restarted KDE, my memory usage is still dropping...
9:31am up 10:00, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.08, 0.07
87 processes: 86 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 1.1% user, 1.5% system, 0.0% nice, 97.2% idle
Mem: 261664K av, 200644K used, 61020K free, 0K shrd, 5488K buff
Swap: 1283184K av, 0K used, 1283184K free 125856K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
30105 root 3 0 23772 23M 1708 S 0.3 9.0 0:11 X
30278 pfortin 0 0 15600 15M 9416 S 0.0 5.9 0:05 netscape
30322 dfortin 1 0 12412 12M 7888 S 0.0 4.7 0:01 netscape
30245 pfortin 0 0 9252 9252 7784 S 0.0 3.5 0:02 kdeinit
30226 pfortin 0 0 9168 9168 7944 S 0.0 3.5 0:02 kdeinit
30261 pfortin 0 0 7680 7680 6820 S 0.0 2.9 0:00 kdeinit
30285 pfortin 0 0 7680 7680 6820 S 0.0 2.9 0:00 kdeinit
30325 pfortin 4 0 7676 7676 6816 S 0.9 2.9 0:00 kdeinit
30109 root 0 0 6936 6936 6156 S 0.0 2.6 0:00 kdm
30260 pfortin 0 0 6860 6860 6156 S 0.0 2.6 0:00 kdeinit
Stopping and starting eth0 via webmin causes loss of the default route; the only
way to restore it is with "route add default gw <gw>"...
[this is too much... rebooting entire system...]
OK... now cron et al seems to be working again (except for location of icons):
--
Linux (Up 12 min) -- Reboots are for system upgrades...
Last reboot reason: 11/18/00: installed Mandrake 7.2, +2 SCSI HDs
Is this KDE(X4.0.1) 'disaster' atypical...?
Pierre
