On Wednesday June 27 2007 6:50:32 am Kevin Papineau wrote: > I'll start with some background information: > > I run a server using SuSE 9.2 and everything was great. snip > The problems: > > Some programs have no fonts.. > Gimp > Evolution > Epiphany > > many others.. > > Some programs crash on load, KTorrent primarily, but also the "Login > Window" manager when loaded directly from the KDE start menu, though it is > fine when accessed through "Personal Settings > System Administration". > > And my LAN doesn't work at all. I compared all my configuration files > between this setup and the old one (SuSE 9.2), used YAST for some of the > automagic configurations where available, still no go.
snip: sounds like you did everything right to fix this. > Any suggestions, other than "wipe and reinstall" would be appreciated. > Surely, I can't be the first/only person to have had this hiccup. > > Thanks in advance. > > Kevin Papineau The gnome apps probably are missing some dependencies, libraries and/or fonts. If you used the 10.2 install repositories listed on the opensuse.org site for OSS, non-OSS, updates, KDE, GNOME, whichever, for the update then you should be good. That can fix weird problems like you seem to have. My best guess as to what may have happened is that the install wasn't as smooth as it seemed. I've had installs go bad and the resulting system just had too many unrelated to each other problems that a re-install seemed less time consuming than trying to fix it all. It worked. The 2nd time worked just fine. Same system hardware, same install media, different end results. I know others on this list have had similar experiences and on many different versions of SUSE. If you do the bare metal re-install go for a minimal install without your previous data. Add in the repositories and update the system. If its all working fine and none of these odd problems exist, then start adding in your old data/config. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
