On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:44 am, stefmit wrote: > 1. I have been reading on this list and its archives about tons of problems > with the new release. I have already run into one that some others may have > experienced (doing an online update screwed up afterwards all the menus I > had in KDE). > [Q] - is there a repository of all the known and still unpatched screw-ups, > on the MDK web site? And possibly workarounds?
> [Q] Does anybody know if the 9.2 is still too "crude" to count on the easy > urpmi repositories of source sites? Are those still unstable for this new > release? > > [Overall-Qs] Does this whole 9.2 look really embarrassingly > unprofessionally released to any of you? > Stef Stef, Here's a copy of a post I made on the google groups & a forum. Pehaps it will help. ------------------------------------------------------- I got a 3 cd 9.2 set for $7.99 shipped on ebay, from "webberry." He says they were from Oct. 28, as I recall. Anyway, I installed from them, with no problems- I just went to init 3 in 9.1 before installing 9.2, renamed my old ~/.kde folder, and deleted a bunch of other hidden folders like .gnome, .mozilla, and .gaim, and whatever others I thought looked like might cause problems. Then I rebooted from 9.2 cd1, and did a normal expert install with custom partitioning (didn't reformat my /home partition)- everything went perfectly, as I had done many times before with 9.1. I then rebooted to my new 9.2, setup an update mirror in Mandrake Updates, and downloaded/installed all the kde updates, and most of the other ones I needed (on dialup). Then I went and downloaded the 2.4.22.21 multimedia kernel & source from a 9.2 contrib mirror, installed, rebooted, and all is running perfect for the last 10 days. Also downloaded a vanilla 2.6.0-test9 kernel, compiled manually from source, and that too works perfectly (I have had a lot of experience on Gentoo and 9.1 with 2.6 kernels). That's been my 9.2 experience so far- I must say, I have no complaints. I did receive the original 2.4.22.10 kernel however, so I guess these cd's must be from the first bittorrent version. Anyhow, I had no problems installing/updating packages or the new kernels, which was no big deal. For the menus problem, try as root: update-menus -v Robert Crawford
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