Bugs under mandrake

[phredd]

Using Mandrake 9.0 which kicks *** (kicks MS windows' *** anyways...)

One bug is in Mozilla actually: when I click find; either CTRL+F or from the Edit menu, it closes the window (?) Anyone else had this happen?

Another thing: I was 'shredding' a 700MB file (is this like wiping?) and when it got to 100% it carried on (apparantly) until i stopped it at 133%. What could that be?

[sharth]

uhm.. shread overwrites the location of a file mulitple times, as well as deleting it. generally to not allow the file to ever be recovered.

man shread

you generally should not run a command unless you know what it is...

[mooreted]

I have MDK 9.1 and the find function works fine. Have you tried using CTRL+F in any other programs like Konqueror? and does it work?

You might try upgrading to the latest version of Mozilla... Lots of bug fixes.

Good Luck,
Ted.

[FlipinMonkeyPie]

Originally posted by phredd
Another thing: I was 'shredding' a 700MB file (is this like wiping?) and when it got to 100% it carried on (apparantly) until i stopped it at 133%. What could that be?

Its best to just "rm" a file (or delete on the right-click menu) unless you are worried about somebody recovering it and using it.

[phredd]

is shread the same as shred or a typo? I didn't really want to wipe this file, just selected from the menu to see how it worked....or not! I take it this function isn't stable.

The ctrl+f function only stopped working recently..

are there any 'system health check' type utilities that I could be running on Mandrake?

[FlipinMonkeyPie]

Shred is probably just a typo. Did you try a different browser? I run mdk 9.0 with the mozilla that comes on CD.. I don't think I have any problem, can't try it right now though. sorry.

[o0zi]

I found MDK 9.0 buggy as well, but when I upgraded to 9.1 everything worked fine. I'd suggest you upgrade - 9.0 seems to have been a buggy release.

[mdwatts]

It seems that Redhat and Mandrake's (and others ??) '#.0' releases seem to be buggier than their .1 or .2 releases.

[dkeav]

pretty much, personnally i think they need to work on their feedback, they do all the testing and bug reports with release copies, but the bugs that are prevalent in the betas, that get reported, always tend to show up in the .0 releases, i think they only fix them when major buyers start complaining

[chort]

It sound's to me like KDE took over the CTRL + F hotkey combo and is using it for something else. Check your KDE hotkeys.

Personally I run Mandrake 9.0 (Power Pack edition with the commercial CDs) and it works great. I've heard a lot of horror stories from the Mandrake mailing lists about things being really messed up in 9.1, so I have no desire to upgrade.

[dkeav]

your gonna hear horror stories, it depends on the person that installs it, their level of knowlege, and the hardware they have, most of the post i have seen are from people (kiddies) bragging about having the newest mb, fastest cpu's, and a couple billlion frames per second on their video card, and they actually expect for it to all be supported

9.1 seems to me to be more polished than 9.0, but really there isnt much difference there are only a few bug fixes, that if they arnt bothering you in the first place there is no reason to upgrade other than eyecandy, 9.0 is good, i would stick with it till the next major release

[mdwatts]

My favorite is when users blame 'Linux' for not having the device support for their newest, greatest piece of hardware.

As if MS writes device drivers for 3rd party hardware.

Blame the hardware manufacturers and the 'Linux' team.

[dkeav]

then they come here and ask why it isnt working, then they get mad when you tell them why, then they blame you too hehehe

[FlipinMonkeyPie]

I've heard horror storries about 9.0 and 9.1.. but im running a server on 9.0 and havn't had one problem yet, so i'm not gona upgrade. Now, you should have tried 8.0 heh, its was buggy.

[dkeav]

ive had mdk on a machine since the 7.x series, i know how buggy they were, whewww it wasnt pretty hehehe

mdk no longer supports my new workstation though, so now im using SuSE, freebsd didnt like it either, something about dual xeon they dont like, but i have to run Irix on it too, so i just keep an extra testing machine that i can play with

[Darkbolt]

Originally posted by mdwatts
It seems that Redhat and Mandrake's (and others ??) '#.0' releases seem to be buggier than their .1 or .2 releases. No, mandrake's 8.2 release was quite buggy...if what you said *is* true, i'd hate to see what the 8.0 was like

[FlipinMonkeyPie]

i ran 8.0 as a server for months (even though 9.0 was out, i didnt want to upgrade...). im glad i upgraded.. much better.

[dkeav]

the 8.x series in general was a botched group, the whole point behind it was just to put something out, to compete, but after all the complaining and loss of supporters, not too mention the updates to software that the distro was based off of, the 9 series brought a whole other level to it, anyone still on eight should have/now upgrade(d) to 9.x

[mdwatts]

Time to move this over to /dev/random so to also give that crowd something to do.

They just love stuff like this. ;)

[dkeav]

oh god i better unsubscribe from this one :D

[phredd]

Is it just me or did anyone else detect a subtle hint of sarcasm in the statement:

Originally posted by mdwatts
It seems that Redhat and Mandrake's (and others ??) '#.0' releases seem to be buggier than their .1 or .2 releases.

which is basically like saying generally early releases have more bugs than the updated versions... heheh, makes sense :p

But yeah, I guess i'll try updating to mandrake 9.1.... would i need a separate update for mozilla, or will upgrading to 9.1 include updates to some applications?

[FlipinMonkeyPie]

when you upgrade to 9.1, it will upgrade all programs that are installed and have updates released after 9.0 was released. so, yes, it should be upgrade along with it.

[dkeav]

i usually go for the clean install route, but thats just me.. actually i think you can just specify to not format your home partition, and you can do a clean install that way, but i always tend to change my partitions some when i reinstall, so ehh whatever melts your butter buddy