On Mon Feb 03, 2003 at 07:40:27PM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote:

> >Sure, but everything tested out fine with the secteam, with QA, and
> >with me.  Without knowing the symtomd (nevermind the packages), how can
> >we fix it?  You presume too much.
> >
> >Tell us what got "clobbered".  My 9.0 machines, with all updates
> >applied, are rock solid.
> 
> Alas!  My reply was inadvertenly attached to James Sparenburgs's
> message below.   My apologies.
> 
> All Linux partitions on both machines worked perfectly for about 6 
> months after
> expert installation.  Then these problems started appearing on 3 of the 
> partitions.

The KDE issues and the mozilla printing?  Or was there more?

> Interestingly, a reinstall did not fix anything, like it does with 
> Windows 98
> (but _NOT_ always) - which is a serious requirements or design problem with
> the Mandrake installer.

The installer goes with the packages it's given... it doesn't install
something and go "hey wait a minute" and intelligently fix your problem
for you.  Unless you're referring to another issue beyond the KDE
cosmetics and mozilla printing, I'm not sure why you think DrakX has
anything to do with it.

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