Two Issues...

First, I have latest version of KDE installed on my Slack 10 system and last night I decided to use Swaret to update my system. I had not updated my system in a long time. I ran "swaret --update" then "swaret --upgrade". I approved all of the downloads and installed all of the new packages. After it was done I rebooted my system. Upon reboot, I noticed that ALSA didn't recognize my sound card. That problem I can probably resolve. My BIG issue is that I can't boot my system into run level 4. It goes to run level 4 and starts loading X and then comes back to a the command line and says something like "there are no more processes running at this run level." At this point my system is frozen with a blinking cursor. I have to kill the power to shut down or reboot.

Need help!!!!

Second, for a while now my system has been very picky when it comes to 1.44MB floppies. Some floppies work fine but others behave strangely. The strange ones mount, but when I copy something to it I get a message like "can not change the permissions." It doesn't matter what the file is or who I am logged in as. In addition the files get copied, BUT the file name has been shortened to 8 characters and all of the capital letters have been made lower case. What does it all mean?

this happened to me when I upgraded a while ago with slackware current. the kernel got upgraded.. so all I had to do was manually upgrade all the kernel packages.. after this happened I removed the exclude kernel line from swaret.conf despite the problems it could give me... as long as I pay attention to what I upgrade it'll be fine

How do I get my system working again? I just tried booting it up again and it appears as if KDM won't load so it goes back to the Command Line with the error I mentioned earlier. Stupid me.....I don't have a Slack boot disk. Is there a place where I can download a Slack boot disk and make the disk with my Windows XP machine?

***EDIT***

Can I use the Slack 10 CD as a boot disk...umm...err....boot CD?

just boot from the cd, and follow onscreen instructions.

egag

Hi,
The same thing happened to me when I upgraded my x.org to 6.8.1 - it refused to start. Check the logs or x.org (/var/log/Xorg.log). The problem is that the name of the driver for the keyboard has been changed from keyboard to kbd (check ur /etc/X11/xorg.conf - the keyboard section) - this change has been documented both on the x.org site and in the slackware changlog(google for this). I'm not able to give exact instructions since I'm at work... Will get u exact instructions in a couple of hours if u aren't able to figure it out...

Dunno about ur floppy problem, though..

HTH