Yes, my latest upgrade left X totally unuseable, it goes to the blue screen,
I see the mouse pointer for a few milliseconds, then it exits, NO errors
tho....
Duron 700, voodoo3 3000 AGP, KDE manager, I think it might have been libs
related? I'll try a fresh install tomorrow and see what happens, too tired
right now..
Eugenio Diaz wrote:
> Ever since I upgraded to the new cooker (2.96 based) from the old cooker
> (2.95), several things seem to die unexpectedly leaving no trace.
>
> For example:
>
> 1. I have a backup script that uses dump. Some times it runs fine, but
> some times the spawned dump processes stop dumping and hang in there
> doing nothing; I do an strace on them and they show to be in "pause(".
>
> 2. The xfs server dies without leaving any trace of it's dead when you
> probe some fonts with any application; those fonts worked fine before.
>
> 3. Some times when my ISP hangs my ppp connection, pppwatch dies
> unexpectedly while reconnecting, again without a trace, and my machine
> just stays off-line. This is very bad, since if I am traveling, there is
> no way to access my machine if it falls into this condition (unless I
> run a script to monitor for this problem). Anyway, this happens only
> some times.
>
> This could all be several different problems, but I doubt it, since all
> started at the same time when I upgraded to the new cooker, and they all
> exhibit the same behavior of not leaving any trace in any log or
> anything.
>
> Any one having similar problems?
>
> --
> Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
> Linux Engineer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
