hardware issue -- update

[Matthew Carpenter]

While I refuse to comment on the color and music-choices for KDE Developers (nor defend them), I can comment on the flu...  but I won't :)

As for your odd config files issues, it sounds like possibly when the power supply died some changes were not written completely to disk.  Sometimes even journaling filesystems don't deal well with the crash, they just don't seem to corrupt everything in sight.  What filesystem is in use?


On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:23:31 -0500
dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:

> quoth Stuart Biggerstaff:
> | Don't want to do that!  Sometimes it's the easiest way to invalidate
> | them.
> |
> | Nice that your vendor will take care of this.  Not long ago I found
> | the switch in an ATX case can be hard to find and replace.  I found
> | several sources for AT switches, but everyone I asked said they
> | didn't have ATX ones.  We wound up buying a new case--though rigging
> | a doorbell button should have done the job if we really wanted to
> | keep the case.
> 
> well, it's back and running and i'm using it at this very minute -- but 
> much strangeness has ensued. fired up kmail and got word that the index 
> files were from *a different version of kmail* and much though not all 
> of my kde configuration was lunched. many config things, such as 
> settings for getting mail, were fine, but all the appearance stuff, 
> look and feel, was utterly gone, and a good portion of it won't come 
> back. (and it is pure hell trying to find the source for mosfet's 
> latest liquid theme, as well as the strange and order-critical 
> instructions for configuring it afterwards. have failed in this 
> regard.) opera 6.12, the last version that runs on my paid-for license, 
> renewed its earlier strange behavior, segfaulting at start about five 
> out of six times (for some reason, after awhile it stopped doing this 
> several weeks after it started with the upgrade to suse-8.2, but now 
> has started again). which is all mighty weird for a machine whose power 
> supply simply failed. there was no evidence at boot of anything having 
> been damaged on the drive. this is just irredeemably strange. (all the 
> more so for the fact that this frigging flu *still* hasn't gone away. 
> okay, okay, two thousand-mile hops in a pickup truck in the last eight 
> days, plus getting shanghied into being best man at a long and 
> elaborate wedding yesterday, are not conducive to speedy recovery, but 
> still . . . this thing has been with me for two and a half weeks, and i 
> am not getting used to it but instead want it to go the hell away!)
> 
> anyway, it *was* the power supply.
> 
> (anybody know why the kde designers are so in love with pinks and 
> lavendars and purples plus really crappy "music"?)
> -- 
> dep
> 
> But Tonto, he was smarter, one day said "Kemo sabe,
> Kiss my ass --  I bought a boat; I'm going out to sea."
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