Hi,
Here's my installation report.
NFS network installation failed everytime, usually right after all
packages were installed.
Looked like a bad crash (stacks, cpy registers, more of a kernel crash).
The server was a Mandrake 8.1 box. This may be the almighty "NFS ghost"
though.
After switching to local scsi hd disk, the installation was troublefree.
Swedish locale, no problem.
Had to handle a problem with Cisco vpnclient sourcecode (3rd party
software, kernel module)
that worked because gcc 2.96 was very forgiving and gcc 3.1 is not :)
Will tell Cisco.
Gnome 2:
The terminal seems like 7 bit ascii from a swedish point of view.
National characters �, �, � translates to e, d, v on output. The
remaining gnome tools seems
to get the characters right though.
Who put the main menu up north and why isn't the placement easily
configurable?
It is still not obvious how to connect mime types and file extensions to
applications...
Back to KDE in a hurry :)
KDE 3:
Keeps displaying the "first time" wizard so I can setup KDE over and over :)
fam (File Activity Monitor) is being an *ss. If you watch a file as it's
being downloaded
from mozilla in konqueror, CPU load will be high and the icon will
flicker wildly. This is
even more fun if you download the file onto the kde desktop.
fam will create a file lock on /mnt/cdrom (if it's explored) and make it
hard to unmount the
cd sometimes.
Visit /mnt with a bootfloppy in the drive and it will start ticking,
reading the floppy.
It will continue to do this forever even if you exit konqueror.
fam? Don't know, but it is annoying after a while :)
I've seen stuff like this on MDK8.2 as well, I think it started with the
KDE3 packages I
installed.
Konqueror with integrated terminal window: Complains about a font ("13")
not being found and
tells me to read README.linux.console
RPM?:
Got this when I installed the Mandrake 8.2 acroread 5.0.5 packages from
Mandrake Club:
fel: db4-fel(-30988) fr�n dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested
page not found
(fel == error in swedish).
acroread did install.
MSEC (?):
Creating obsolete entries in the kdmrc making /var/adm/messages look like:
Jul 24 11:05:39 chiana kdm_config[2176]: Unrecognized key
'AllowShutdown' at /u
sr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc:45
Jul 24 11:05:39 chiana kdm_config[2176]: Unrecognized key 'NoUsers' at
/usr/sha
re/config/kdm/kdmrc:64
Jul 24 11:05:39 chiana kdm_config[2176]: Unrecognized key 'Users' at
/usr/share
/config/kdm/kdmrc:71
Jul 24 11:05:39 chiana kdm_config[2176]: Unrecognized key
'AllowShutdown' at /u
sr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc:81
Jul 24 11:05:39 chiana kdm_config[2176]: Invalid option value 'All' at
/usr/sha
re/config/kdm/kdmrc:68
Summary : This is an impressive and very usable beta 1 considering the
new "internal" stuff.
I will continue to use it.
// Johan
