There were some earlier suggestions to do a clean install. I have done something quite similar to what you describe once or twice. If you have slackpkg, you can re-install package groups; if not, try booting with the installer, mount your file systems, and (re-)install away. You may be able to do this with pkgtool, you may be able to do this with setup.

netatalk has a couple of files (/etc/netatalk/atalkd.conf.new and /etc/netatalk/papd.conf.new) that aren't getting config'd in doinst.sh.

aaa_elflibs has some old versions of libpng and glib2 files.

I noticed in /boot/README.mkinitrd references are to 3.2.27 rather than 3.2.28, and the lilo section is a bit strange.
Looks like a missing parenthesis..

Very minor. I'm running 14 rc4 on my new laptop and it's running amazing.

I just made a clean install of slackware64-14.0rc4. Everything works very well :D

Just upgraded my everyday desktop, no problems so far!

14.0RC4 is running on a double-boot box here in 32-bit and 64-bit mode, with Xfce. When inserting a CD-Rom or a DVD and mounting it in Thunar, the automagic mountpoint is /run/media/<disk_label>. Did I miss some evolution here?

Well, if you try hardly enough, you always will find something to fix.

For instance in the installer, isolinux.cfg includes three entries for kernels with respective labels huge.s, hugesmp.s and speakup.s

The last two are somehow duplicates, as both launch the same kernel (hugesmp.s), but at the same time the help text that you see if you hit the F2 key (f2.txt) says:
This is somehow slightly inconsistent - and possibly a reminiscence of an older version.

I guess that this doesn't deserve an RC5, though ;)

That sounds a lot like the old generic advice in the early days of Windows: "Oh, you just need to reinstall Windows!" ... but it worked!

That new xfce4 default setup is pretty!

This fresh install apparently cleared out a lot of assorted cruft and freed up more of my limited disc space.

NetworkManager doesn't want to voluntarily find my wireless router yet, but automounting of USB flash drives is now working again after several months of not working.

I'll reinstall wicd, chrome, flash-player-plugin, and those (less than a dozen) SBo, alien and slacky packages. Oh, and I'll be wanting to upgrade guile again from the version 1.8.8 installed by default (I think they're at 2.0.6 now).

All better now, Thanks!

There was a discussion some days back about default mount points in /run rather than /media. I can't find that discussion and would be grateful for a link. Thanks!

I think you're referring to this.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post4761013

I'm using Fluxbox and haven't decided how to handle the loss of HAL,
so I haven't run across this issue yet. :(

Actually NetworkManager has now woken up and is working for me better than wicd! One less /extra package to reinstall.

Yay!

AKAIK, there is no magic solution, as the manuals are bundled without any mechanism allowing to each of them to declare the charset it uses. Here I think you look at an UTF-8 manual with an UTF-8 locale, so groff converts it to UTF-8 because it knows your local charset but ignores the page is already suitable for it. Try this to inform groff there's no need to convert:

It's a typo, I think. The leading single quote should be a dot.

Hi, stimulated by the discussion about the html-ide ([SOLVED] Recommendation Please - WYSIWYG HTML Editor) and the mentioned link through which I found geany I ran into this make-error when compiling its plugins:

The current libsoup package installs only .so files into /usr/lib64 not a .la file.

Not sure if this is wrong or correct, but the netatalk package includes two configuration files in /etc/netatalk atalkd.conf.new and papd.conf.new which are not handled by the doinst.sh script and therefore stay as *.new files even if there is no existing configuration file during install.

For those who don't want to search whole thread, see this post - http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post4761516

I'm running Fluxbox without HAL, but udev + udisks (not udisks2) + udiskie script works like a charm. And it even mounts devices to /media ;)

And by the way, I did new install (accidentally partially erased my /etc, so new-install was fastest way how to fix this and it also cleaned few once-compiled-now-completely-forgotten programs) and Slackware 14 RC4 runs just fine. Well, I'm experiencing one problem with ipw2200 kernel module*, but that's nothing Slackware can fix. And I would also like to resolve rc.dhcpd issue, but I can live without it. Slackware 14 RC4 is flawless from my point of view.

* due to change in udev, ipw2200 fails to load at first, timeout after 60 seconds and then it's successfully loaded again. Nothing actually broken, only you have to wait for 60 more seconds. If anyone wants details, feel free to ask.