I posted some initial problems the other day. Let me say again that LM7.2 looks
great; but right now I'm very seriously contemplating going back to 7.1 where I
had total stability...
So far: $ uptime
10:33pm up 3 days, 10:24, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.05, 0.69
during which I have experienced:
- the problems in my original post requiring a reboot
- several X Ctl+Alt+Bkspc restarts :
- a complete keyboard hang (bugzilla #1530)
- mouse clicks ignored (seems to be a race condition; still tracking)
- rpmdrake CPU/memory hog while trying to install opensshd (#1533)
(memory usage was over 700MB for grpmi)
- CD won't read data disks after audio disk played (#1534)
- X hang; even killed networking requiring ifdown/ifup eth0 (#1538)
I've been using Linux for several years now and this is the worst situation I've
ever encountered. LM7.2 is quickly approaching the reliability of Winblows.
I did a full ("100%") developer (X4.0.1, KDE2) install after formatting / and
/usr.
Pierre
In "LM7.2 post-install problems" (which was not responded to), I wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Last night I finally got around to installing LM7.2 on my main system and today
> am both pleased and disappointed. Installed 100% of developper class.
>
> On the whole, 7.2 looks great. The only install problem was the failure to find
> my Intel Ether Pro at 0x210,11.
>
> After a bit of use, the system now gives me all sorts of errors...
>
> First, some info:
> [root@localhost sysconfig]# df
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda5 295564 89798 190506 32% /
> /dev/hdb1 297603 21013 261220 7% /hd/b1
> /dev/hdb3 1585000 273057 1230018 18% /hd/b3
> /dev/hdb6 9121903 6261014 2387685 72% /hd/b6
> /dev/hda7 6151076 2690564 3148052 46% /home
> /dev/sda1 2063504 4 1958680 0% /sd/a1
> /dev/sdc1 495666 2586 467481 1% /sd/c1
> /dev/sdd1 325154 141057 167305 46% /sd/d1
> /dev/hda6 3020140 1300624 1566100 45% /usr
> /dev/hdb5 2970455 1571661 1245177 56%
> /usr/local
> [root@localhost sysconfig]# swapon -s
> Filename Type Size Used Priority
> /dev/hda1 partition 248968 0 -3
> /dev/sdb1 partition 1034216 0 -4
> # sdb1 was added before doing the install.
>
> >From top:
> 8:52am up 9:22, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.09, 0.09
> 118 processes: 117 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 1.5% user, 3.5% system, 0.0% nice, 94.9% idle
> Mem: 261664K av, 252536K used, 9128K free, 0K shrd, 2344K buff
> Swap: 1283184K av, 0K used, 1283184K free 109576K
> cached
>
> On my older system, upgrade took over 24 hours, so I decided to reformat / and
> /usr and install vs upgrade.
>
> At startup, memory usage was 258K(!); now, with loads of stuff running, it's
> only 252K.
>
> I have a few applications started; but when I now try to start anything, I get:
> Sorry - The KDE Panel
> ! Couldn't launch <application>
>
> Some applications report:
> DCOP communications error (KDE Control Module)
> X There was some error setting up inter-process
> communications for KDE. The message returned
> by the system was:
> Could not read network connection list.
> Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!
>
> [root@localhost sysconfig]# ps auxww | grep dcop
> pfortin 20210 0.0 1.7 13856 4668 ? S Nov17 0:00 kdeinit:
> dcopserver
> root 21178 0.0 1.7 13796 4616 ? S 01:26 0:00 kdeinit:
> dcopserver
>
> Clicking OK then gives the application (i.e., Panel Menu>Configure>Settings...);
> but the Apply doesn't do anything (such as changing Location from Bottom to
> Top).
>
> cron does not appear to be running anymore (see uptime in signature):
> --
> Linux (Up 1:57 hours) -- Reboots are for system upgrades...
> Last reboot reason: 11/18/00: installed Mandrake 7.2, +2 SCSI HDs
>
> System has been up overnight. Even Netscape 4.76 does not appear to check mail
> at requested intervals.
> Could this be related?:
> Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily'
> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 21:25:15 -0500 (EST)
>
> DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified
> slocate: this is not a valid slocate database:
> /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db
>
> [saving this post and restarting KDE...]
>
> <sigh> Even Logout did not work; I had to Ctl+Alt+Bksp...
>
> Now, KDE is up again; but the icons are across the top instead of down the left
> side. Even though "Align Icons Vertically on Desktop" was set, toggling and
> applying it restored the appearance.
>
> Interesting... having restarted KDE, my memory usage is still dropping...
>
> 9:31am up 10:00, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.08, 0.07
> 87 processes: 86 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 1.1% user, 1.5% system, 0.0% nice, 97.2% idle
> Mem: 261664K av, 200644K used, 61020K free, 0K shrd, 5488K buff
> Swap: 1283184K av, 0K used, 1283184K free 125856K cached
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 30105 root 3 0 23772 23M 1708 S 0.3 9.0 0:11 X
> 30278 pfortin 0 0 15600 15M 9416 S 0.0 5.9 0:05 netscape
> 30322 dfortin 1 0 12412 12M 7888 S 0.0 4.7 0:01 netscape
> 30245 pfortin 0 0 9252 9252 7784 S 0.0 3.5 0:02 kdeinit
> 30226 pfortin 0 0 9168 9168 7944 S 0.0 3.5 0:02 kdeinit
> 30261 pfortin 0 0 7680 7680 6820 S 0.0 2.9 0:00 kdeinit
> 30285 pfortin 0 0 7680 7680 6820 S 0.0 2.9 0:00 kdeinit
> 30325 pfortin 4 0 7676 7676 6816 S 0.9 2.9 0:00 kdeinit
> 30109 root 0 0 6936 6936 6156 S 0.0 2.6 0:00 kdm
> 30260 pfortin 0 0 6860 6860 6156 S 0.0 2.6 0:00 kdeinit
>
> Stopping and starting eth0 via webmin causes loss of the default route; the only
> way to restore it is with "route add default gw <gw>"...
>
> [this is too much... rebooting entire system...]
>
> OK... now cron et al seems to be working again (except for location of icons):
>
> --
> Linux (Up 12 min) -- Reboots are for system upgrades...
> Last reboot reason: 11/18/00: installed Mandrake 7.2, +2 SCSI HDs
>
> Is this KDE(X4.0.1) 'disaster' atypical...?
>
> Pierre
--
Linux (Up 3 days) -- Reboots are for system upgrades...
Last reboot reason: 11/18/00: installed Mandrake 7.2, +2 SCSI HDs
