SuSE 8.1 Woes ......

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 11 October 2002 12:18 pm, Ben Duncan wrote:
> Ok .. gotta make some decisions fast and hard here now. Got some
> projects I must get done and since I was on the
> tail end of them, decided to upgrade the servers to SuSe 8.1 .... Big
> Mistake. Everthing seems to be borken, or at least
> suffering major brain damage. Coming out of AppGen in a Xterm session,
> causes  bash to go  99.5% CPU tilization and
> eating up ALL available memory. Even having having a LPRng current
> installed froms scratch results in back-to-back
> print jobs losing all but the first print job. 

This is a bug in lprng 3.8.15.    Go back to  3.8.12.  Lots of people 
reporting the loss of print jobs with 3.8.15.




This is just an example
> of some of the strange things (And there are others)
> that have been happening. There are other reports from newsgroup that
> report some weirded out things from RH 8
> and MD 9 as well.
>
> So, do i blow off SuSE 8.1 and go back to 8.0? Can this be caused by
> the GCC 3.2 stuff? Any SUGGESTION?

That would be my suggestion, and that's exactly what I did.  Too many things 
don't work (some of them not SuSE's fault)  and I finally had spent more than 
the proverbial  

<reverb> NiNe HoUrS  </reverb>  

 on it....   so I re-installed  8.0.


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