Miark,

>> After some repair-attempts I did a reboot after which /usr
>> suddenly turned out to be full. And the scroll-wheel stopped
>> working immediately with that. Un- and replugging it did not
>> help.
>
>Might a full /usr cause other problems? I know that full
>partitions have caused me great headaches in the past. Did you
>make more room? What happened after that? 

Usually I dimension the partitions with plenty of space. This is my
first experience with a full partition, so I can't really say that a
full partition does something special. I can think of a few things
though, that might present problems.

Last evening I decided to set things up again. /usr was 4Gb, /var was
8Gb, so I reformatted those and then switched the designated partitions
around.

Things now look like this

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ df
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5             5,8G  911M  4,6G  17% /
/dev/hda10             62G   33G   26G  57% /files
/dev/hda9              30G 1021M   29G   4% /home
/dev/hda8             7,9G  2,9G  4,7G  39% /usr
/dev/hda7             3,9G  233M  3,5G   7% /var
/dev/hdb5              18G   11G  6,4G  62% /big
/dev/hdb6              11G   78M   11G   1% /big2

and that should be fine. Except for a compilation problem with spamprobe
I have things up and running again, and everything looks nice and stable
again. Galeon, pan and gqview (those gave me the problems) all are alive
and kicking again, and the scrollwheel is scrolling again. This did not
go well after install, I had to tweak xorg.conf to get that going.

It is a bit of a pain to get all other installed things together again,
but it does look worth the while.

>My experience with 2006 has been _very_ smooth. CUPS is a bit
>slow because of a recent update, but that's about my only
>complaint (and I could technically install a cooker RPM to fix
>that).

I was very surprised to have this problem happen also. M2006 has been
very stable since I installed it. But it is clear that a full partition
has some suprises in store that I had not anticipated.

Paul
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