From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QY8JS-0008Ih-I1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:04:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05A17E0467 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:04:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 241981C016 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:09:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.42] (xdsl-78-35-173-31.netcologne.de [78.35.173.31]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 827174A8292 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:09:04 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4DFD5A3F.1080800@wonkology.org> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:09:03 +0200 From: Alex Schuster User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110526 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Argh: No KMail after KDEPIM upgrade References: <4DF65EA6.7000400@wonkology.org> <1535027.YUYfiFWEAj@localhost> <4DFD49C9.6020409@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <4DFD49C9.6020409@wonkology.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a0d8872c329d3a5bbfb5f2803bf617c0 I did not intend to send this mail yet, but I accidentally did. It happened when kwin started doing weird things again, like transparent window titles, window content being all black or grey and such. Happens after a few days of KDE4 sesstion uptime, the kwin proecess has grown to some hundred megs (the record was 1.3G) then. I wanted to close the running applications before logging out, which somehow worked for the composing window of this mail, although it was meant to end in the drafts folder, not here. There was also a konqueror window which had some open tabs with threads about this KDEPIM problem, forutunately I was able to save them, despite the bookmark menu being all grey. For the moment, I have disabled kmail in kontact, and grouped the kontact window with a thunderbird window. Now the next problem is that thunderbird does not check my IMAP folders for new mail, only the one I am currently in. Do I fix this problem? Or better invest the time in fixing this KDEPIM problem? Try another mail client? None of those. Instead I install Linux Mint [*] on my Mom's notebook. Again. Because I just killed the existing installation. After some tweaking it worked fine, so I thought it was time for a backup of /boot and ~/.* files on a backup partition, which I had to create first. Before: /dev/sda7 10G /root /dev/sda8 10G /home free space 28G After: /dev/sda7 10G /root /dev/sda8 20G /home /dev/sda9 8G /backup resize2fs /dev/sda8 said the partition was at maximum size already, so I rebooted. And no longer had a /home. Shouldn't this have been safe? I removed /home from fstab so the boot process would not stop again. But now X does not come up. And the console stays black. Somehow, eth0 is down, but wlan0 is connected, I can log in via ssh in order to activate the Grub menu, so I could remove the quiet option. Mint / Ubuntu does not show a Grub menu, booting starts without delay. In Mint, even pressing the escape key does not show the boot process, not sure how this was in Ubunbtu. There is no fancy splash image either in Mint, so the might be something wrong here. I wanted to activate the menu, realized that Grub2 does things SO DIFFERENT from the Grub I know, but then found /etc/default/grub, with lines like GRUB_HIDDEN_MENU=true or something like that, and a comment said the update-grub command would take care of this. I ran it, rebooted, and now I still see no menu. Good: the boot messages are visible. Bad: they are totally distorted and not readable, I think this is the new kernel or initrd I got installed with update-grub. Had this before with Ubuntu when I allowed it to install closed-source video drivers. So I just did a fresh install, now I will configure what I already had configured before. Then comes KDEPIM maybe, after some sleep. Wonko [*] No, not Gentoo. I want a quick setup, no long compiles to keep it up to date, and I hoped for some additional distro magic that would automatically detect my WLAN & stuff.