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From: John Bowling on 7 Jun 2010 18:43 I had 11.2 32 bit installed and ran into a problem with ext4 (/ partition only) and as expected, the installation DVDs repair system wouldn't even try to fix it. So I did what I should have done - reinstalled (with 64 bit) and changed to ext3. I had kde 4.4 installed, but now the repository where it was is no longer, so I've got kde 4.3 and have a couple of problems: Even though I have set the default browser to Firefox, it always defaults to Konqueror except when I specifically start Firefox. I didn't have that problem with the 32 bit version with either kde 4.3 or 4.4. I also had pan installed and there is no longer pan anywhere on the repositories. 32 bit only? It was the best of the news readers. I tried slrn and it refused to create the file needed to start up properly, as myself or root. John
From: David Bolt on 7 Jun 2010 19:50 On Monday 07 Jun 2010 23:43, while playing with a tin of spray paint, John Bowling painted this mural: > I had 11.2 32 bit installed and ran into a problem with ext4 (/ partition > only) and as expected, the installation DVDs repair system wouldn't even > try to fix it. No comments as yet. I haven't had any issues that have required using the repair system to fix. I've managed all my problems just by using the rescue system. > So I did what I should have done - reinstalled (with 64 bit) and changed to > ext3. I had kde 4.4 installed, but now the repository where it was is no > longer, so I've got kde 4.3 and have a couple of problems: Which repos did you add? The various versions are available using KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Desktop for KDE4.3.5, KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop for KDE4.4, KDE:KDE4:UNSTABLE:Desktop for the KDE4.5 development snapshots. > Even though I have set the default browser to Firefox, it always defaults to > Konqueror except when I specifically start Firefox. I didn't have that > problem with the 32 bit version with either kde 4.3 or 4.4. Can't suggest a fix for that as I have Konqueror as my default browser. > I also had pan installed and there is no longer pan anywhere on the > repositories. 32 bit only? It was the best of the news readers. davjam(a)moray:~/sync> zypper se -s pan Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository --+-----------------------------------+------------+-----------------+--------+--------------------------------- <snip> i | pan | package | 0.133-127.1 | x86_64 | Buildservice_home_davjam79 v | pan | package | 0.133-127.1 | i586 | Buildservice_home_davjam79 v | pan | package | 0.133-5.2 | x86_64 | 11.2_mirror v | pan | package | 0.133-5.2 | i586 | 11.2_mirror <snip> 11.2_mirror is my local 11.2 mirror, the buildservice_home_davjam79 is my home project. You can find both packages using: <http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=pan&baseproject=openSUSE:11.2> > I tried slrn and it refused to create the file needed to start up properly, > as myself or root. It's been a while since I played about with slrn. Must do so again, just to see if I can tweak some noses again :-) Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net openSUSE 11.0 32b | | | openSUSE 11.3M7 32b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | openSUSE 11.2 64b | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | RISC OS 4.02 | RISC OS 3.11
From: John Bowling on 8 Jun 2010 12:01 houghi wrote: > David Bolt wrote: >> On Monday 07 Jun 2010 23:43, while playing with a tin of spray paint, >> John Bowling painted this mural: >> >>> I had 11.2 32 bit installed and ran into a problem with ext4 (/ >>> partition >>> only) and as expected, the installation DVDs repair system wouldn't >>> even try to fix it. >> >> No comments as yet. I haven't had any issues that have required using >> the repair system to fix. I've managed all my problems just by using >> the rescue system. > > That is already very odd. I can read it in several ways > 1) There was nothing broken, so nothing to fix > 2) The DVD was broken > 3) The system was so broken, it could not be repaired > > <snip> > >>> Even though I have set the default browser to Firefox, it always >>> defaults to Konqueror except when I specifically start Firefox. I didn't >>> have that problem with the 32 bit version with either kde 4.3 or 4.4. >> >> Can't suggest a fix for that as I have Konqueror as my default browser. > > Mmm. Weird. Two things possible. > 1) The change was not done correctly (human error) > 2) The change is not read correctly (technical issue) > > <snip> > >>> I tried slrn and it refused to create the file needed to start up >>> properly, as myself or root. >> >> It's been a while since I played about with slrn. Must do so again, >> just to see if I can tweak some noses again :-) > > I have never had slrn refused to create the file. I asume it is known > that the first time you need to run it as: > slrn -f /home/user/.jnewsrc --create > > So what would be the error that you get when you run it. Here an example > of mine where root gets an error: > penne:~ # slrn -f /media/backup/penne/.jnewsrc --create > slrn 0.9.8.1pl1 [2005-02-17] > > Using newsrc file /media/backup/penne/.jnewsrc for server news.slrn > fatal error: > Unable to create lock file /media/backup/penne/.jnewsrc-lock. > > The reason for the error is that that partition is read-only. The reason > I bring this up is because the default also does not keep. So my > suspicion of the whole problem is the HD. I think that the first susect > was EXT4 as there was a change to EXT3 and yet the problem did not go > away. > > My best guess on the information available is that the HD is on its way > to the eternal bit in the sky. Try with another HD and see if the > problem still exists. > > houghi I did use the command (slrn -f /home/john/.jnewsrc --create) to create the file, which it refused to do, and nothing else has problems in that newly formatted ext3 partition. I kept the origional / and /home for the old install intact and made new ones for this install. I prefer making a new /home so that it starts out fresh without some weird setting from the old setup. I then copy over only what's needed to get useful things back. The hard drive is not new, but has no other failures other than that ext4 problem. The change to set Firefox as default is both in Firefox when it asked, and under the kde menu Default Applications web browser. It has a browse button which brings up the same menu list and allows selection of Firefox (shows up as "firefox %u". Perhaps I should try again with a brand new drive, which I have setting here waiting to go into another system, and copy my data to it. It depends on Dave's recommendations for repositories. Kde 4.4 was working well for me before my ext4 problem. Also, news.mixmin.net allows reading of everything, but does not let me post, with or without a password in Knode. I created an account on their web site. I cancelled GigaNews, and have until the end of the month with news.cox.net. I noticed that GigaNews filtered which postings were available beyond removing spam. mixmin does a good job of spam removal vs cox. Thanks John
From: JT on 9 Jun 2010 02:32 On 08/06/10 18:23, houghi wrote: > John Bowling wrote: > >> I did use the command (slrn -f /home/john/.jnewsrc --create) to create the >> file, which it refused to do, and nothing else has problems in that newly >> formatted ext3 partition. >> > Any message it gave? Are you able to make the file manually? > > >> The hard drive is not new, but has no other failures other than that ext4 >> problem. >> > And now these problems. > > <snip> > >> Also, news.mixmin.net allows reading of everything, but does not let me >> post, with or without a password in Knode. I created an account on their web >> site. I cancelled GigaNews, and have until the end of the month with >> news.cox.net. I noticed that GigaNews filtered which postings were available >> beyond removing spam. mixmin does a good job of spam removal vs cox. >> > There are many free news servers that are free. > It's even better: _all_ free news servers are free ;-) > houghi > -- Kind regards, JT
From: Darklight on 10 Jun 2010 05:13
John Bowling wrote: > I had 11.2 32 bit installed and ran into a problem with ext4 (/ partition > only) and as expected, the installation DVDs repair system wouldn't even > try to fix it. > > So I did what I should have done - reinstalled (with 64 bit) and changed to > ext3. I had kde 4.4 installed, but now the repository where it was is no > longer, so I've got kde 4.3 and have a couple of problems: Is both your root directory and home directory ext3. I had problems with 11.2 when i first installed it. 11.2 converted my root directory to ext4 and left my home directory ext3. This caused me problems no end, did you format your home partition when you reinstalled the 64bit version.Check you home directory and see what are 32bit packages compared to 64bit packages. Second as you went from 32 bit to 64 bit. I would suggest using a third party partition manager to do a secure delete then reinstall, os of choice. For i have suffered from bleed through in the past. Concerning kde4.4.3 it is there in the opensuse repositories, i just updated as i wrote this. that being said i use the 32 bit version of 11.2. |