On Sun, 05 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> Dear John:
>
> Thanks a million! At last, that dreadful error message is gone! I've
> been seeing this error message ever since I switched to Linux early this
> year. I won't say that it has driven me crazy. Not really. But it has
> made me feel very uneasy, anxious just as the message about "You have
> new mail" does (which I understand is another meaningless error message
> generated by Pine in Linux). Look at it from a newbie's point of view:
> Don't you agree that it would be wonderful if Mandrake, the
> user-friendly distro (and, as someone who is very pleased with Mandrake,
> I mean that sincerely), eliminated that anxiety-inducing error message.
> If it were a real error message, that would be one thing. But it if is
> an obvious bug, why not remove it in the next version and make a
> newbie's life a little less difficult than it already is.
>
Ben...You sent me a private email stating that, although it APPEARED
to be working, it wasn't really, and then followed that up a few
minutes later with a message that you'd rebooted and it was now
working. I just got to thinking about it... You probably didn't need
to reboot, just restart X. :-) Oh, well... :-)
John
