[ale] Further forensics

[Jerald Sheets]

As you know, the thing that started one of our continuing threads here (Re:
, I believe) :)  was that I did an upgrade from FC2 Final to FC3 Final.

Well, problems have ensued, and I thought I'd share my findings here.

It appears that FC3 started having odd little glitches here and there.
Among them, the system would hang at desktop for no reason.  And I mean
*HANG*.  Nothing.  Nada.

I did a major up2date, and everything seemed to go back to normal, but then
I started seeing odd little goofiness here and there.  Evolution would hang
in mid-air, and I'd kill it and try to relaunch.  I'd then lose the panel
and couldn't launch anything from menu.

I could still go to a VT, but that was the extent of it.  A reboot, and all
would come back until the next hang.

Since then, I've reinstalled fresh, and all that silliness has disappeared.



Moral:  Don't upgrade.

I don't know why its given me the grief it has.

No /var/log/messages, no X messages, no libraries dumping errors into any
other logfiles that I could see.


System reinstlaled and reconfigured.  Works great, and now even faster than
my previous rantings about how fast it was.

>shrug<   go figure.

Jerald M. Sheets jr.
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
Datatrac, Inc
770.552.3866 x2494 
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> su -
Password:
# cat /dev/flood > /dev/earth
# rdev noah+beasts
# dd if=noah+beasts of=/dev/earth