On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:12:03 -0800 Scott Garman <[email protected]> dijo:
> John Jason Jordan wrote: > > I know that Fedora 12 uses Gnome 2.28.0. I could swear that Debian > > testing did as well, but I have to check on that to be sure. If I am > > right, then there is no point in installing a distro that uses 2.28.0. > > I have no idea what I am doing that causes this, but I do know that I > > need all the applications that I have installed. > > > > I'm also running out of patience. :( > > I have to say it is very unusual that you are running into this > repeatedly, especially using different distributions and desktops. > > Are you running the same hardware each time? When you reboot your system > does the fsck disk checker get run? I suppose hard disk corruption could > break things this badly. Check the output of the command "dmesg" every > so often when you're logged in and using your system and look for errors > - especially ones related to your disk drives/filesystem. Back when I was spending days trying to solve the problem in Debian testing I did check dmesg periodically. I never saw any error messages at all. I also checked /var/log/messages, the xorg logs and lots of other things. At one point I had rebooted so many times that I hit the "30 boots = forced fsck" limit. Fsck didn't find any errors. Besides, if it was a disk error it would be a colossal coincidence that another disk error caused exactly the same problem after the disk was reformatted to install Fedora. No, it has to be a bug in something that some package or configuration I am doing is causing. It would take weeks of logging out, making one change, logging back in, making one change, logging out, logging back in, and so on. At this point my #1 suspect is Gnome 2.28.x. I need to go check the Gnome bug reports, but haven't gotten that far yet. Meantime, I can run Fedora fine on Xfce4. I don't care much for Xfce4, but it suffices until I can decide what to do next. Push come to shove I can put the old hard disk with Jaunty back into the Thinkpad. Then I can chalk this adventure up as one of those "sadder but wiser" experiences that life dishes out from time to time. But I am too pigheaded to give up. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
