Let me first save you a flame and say that I swear by Slack 8.1... its my distro... I love it to death and recommend it to everyone. So when Slack 9 came out, with the great fonts and Gnome2 I had really high hopes. So I downloaded the ISO last night, and installed it. Then I went to sleep and waited till this morning to boot it up. I have to say... I was disappointed.

Complaint #1: When I went to xinit, (after copying the xinitrc.gnome to my home dir) the xserver crashed out. Well not really, XFree86 was fine, but apparently during the install the ATK libraries weren't installed... so gnome wouldn't run.

no biggie... dig around a bit on the slack cd and do an installpkg...

problem solved...

ok,
Complain #2: After loading up what looks like a VERY nice gnome desktop I go to fire up Mozilla... Mozilla loads up, sweet... then it locks up. Its fine if you just move your mouse around the browser, but when you click in the url field the browser locks up for about 5 minutes before going back to working again. And this isn't the browser's fault... I downloaded the latest from Mozilla and installed that in place of the original and I still get the lockup.

Finally, I say, enough with this and I decide to log out of Gnome, so I click on my little gnome's foot and select logout... the whole thing locks up again and I get tired of it hitting ctrl+alt+bkspc

The reason I'm doing all this bitching is I'm hoping someone can help me out... maybe these are known issues... something that, with installing a few extra packages, this could all be easily remedied... in the meantime... I'm installing LFS.

laters,
jpbarto

it is only on rc1 right?

I was under the impression that it was at full release... if this is an RC1... then I'd feel alot better about these issues.

It is a full release.

dang, it sounds like a Rh release for me, not a Slack. I fell ashamed (((((

i havent had any of those problems, and my gnome works fine and doesnt do any of that.. although i use fluxbox, i did play with he gnome2 for a day and had no problems

Slack 8.1 ran perfect, but I had a ton of problems with Slack 9 right after and during first boot.

In my experience, the Gnome2 is behaving very weird. It locks up everytime you try to open a meny or whatever.
I have only tried it with slack 8.1
KDE on the other hand is working as it should.
The cause of the problems i do not know.

The culprit could be the xfree4.3 in combination of the latest nvidia driver (for those who use nvidia cards).

Maybe you got a bad ISO?? I have been running slack 9 now for over a week and its running absolutely perfect, not even 1 lock up yet. With slack 8.1 i was always getting lock ups.

I dont use gnome but i went into it to try it out. One thing i noticed is that it kept spinning my CD-ROM....so gnome does sound buggy to me.

I've tried multiple ISOs and done checksums.

Nah, I don't think its the ISO... could be though... the install was a little unusual as well in that I don't recall it going into network configuration... and even though I told it to install dhcpcd it didn't install any of the more typical net progs like ping or ifconfig... course that could have been my fault... but in addition, it didn't install an rc.inet1 init script either... so I had to type one up real quick... no biggie, just a little inconvenient.

Oh, and just for completeness sake... its a P4 w/ Radeon 9700 Pro. And XFree was just using the fbdev device.... I hadn't even installed any ati drivers or anything yet so I don't think the card was the culprit.

Ah well... it doesn't matter. I've compiled all the static packages in LFS and will compile the rest in the next couple days (its a big job you know...) so I should have a nice LFS running by the end of this week.

laters,
jpbarto

p.s. thanks for ideas / tips everyone offered... sorry to have to give slack a bad review... course if you think about it... slack 8.0 had its problems too... I mean 8.1 was the sweet one. so maybe I should look forward to 9.1?

My slack 9 install is running perfect, I have had it up for a max uptime of 3 days (ok not a long time) but I have had no problems at all

mine is running 5 days without any problem(except that i had to install gnome1.4 libraries to use galeon1.2.8)

i use kde

Hi, 2 night ago, I've installed the slack 9.0 obtaining the same problems of jpbarto under KDE...
I think that the problem is xfree, but I've nothing to prove it.
JPBARTO: what kind of video hardware do u have?
I use a Geforce4, could be the nvidia chip the problem...?

Nah, in his last post he uses ATI Radeon...

The problems sure sound odd, have any of you posted to a mail list?

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