SuSe Crashing.

HatePirate · Post by **HatePirate** » February 28, 2005, 7:12 pm

I recently formated and reinstalled a dual boot system with XP Pro and SuSe 9.1 Pro. SuSe keeps crashing for no particular reason. I'll just be surfing the net (with firefox or konqueror) and my mouse and keyboard with stop responding, the caps-lock and scroll-lock keys will start blinking, and I'll have to shutdown and restart. It's a real pain in the ass. Anyone know what could be causing this???

solid_dave · Post by **solid_dave** » February 28, 2005, 9:39 pm

Try an update on yer BIOS

HatePirate · Post by **HatePirate** » February 28, 2005, 11:58 pm

Nah. I reinstalled suse and now everything works fine.

the_red_chimp · Post by **the_red_chimp** » March 1, 2005, 12:04 am

Can someone find a copy of SuSE on the network I can download?

Post by **Paco103** » March 1, 2005, 12:11 am

I've got Fedora Core 3 if you want it

the_red_chimp · Post by **the_red_chimp** » March 1, 2005, 12:15 am

I'll throw an extra partition on my drive and check it out if that's possible.

HatePirate · Post by **HatePirate** » March 1, 2005, 3:58 am

If what's possible? For SuSe to freeze? Yeah, other weird things were happening too. Like gimp randomly closes while I'm editing pictures, Firefox won't open. Like I said, sometimes everything just stops responding. I thought I solved the problem when I reinstalled, but sure enough after a few reboots, it started acting strange again. I wonder if it's a bug in the 64-bit build (yes I have a 64 bit processor). I dunno. I think I try either Fedora or Mandrake.

Post by **Paco103** » March 1, 2005, 1:08 pm

Here it is on HTTP or FTP

http://microchip.smsu.edu/Files/Fedora_Core_3/

ftp://microchip.smsu.edu:1313/Files/Fedora_Core_3/

the_red_chimp · Post by **the_red_chimp** » March 1, 2005, 1:11 pm

Thanks Paco.

HatePirate · Post by **HatePirate** » March 1, 2005, 5:31 pm

Ok. Right now SuSe is running fine. I'm downloading Fedora Core 3 right now, so I'll have SuSe, Fedora, and XP all installed. Too many operatings systems! Meh. What desktop environment does fedora use (kde or gnome)? Also, how easy is fedora's setup compared to yast? (I'm asking because I'm still pretty new to linux :\ )

Post by **Paco103** » March 1, 2005, 5:36 pm

uh - possibility if you live off campus to download Fedora from somewhere else?

1.) I'll give you a rather slow connection if you're off campus
2.) I only get 4GB a week - so you can't download it all from me anyway

Thanks.

HatePirate · Post by **HatePirate** » March 1, 2005, 6:33 pm

Oh, crap! Sorry, Paco

.

Post by **Paco103** » March 1, 2005, 7:34 pm

No biggie - it's just really no advantage to you and costs me. If you want to download it and burn it from on campus though, help yourself - my network traffic is free.

the_red_chimp · Post by **the_red_chimp** » March 2, 2005, 2:08 am

I downloaded it, burned it, installed it, configured it, and realized it was no different than windows except everything was abbreviated and everyone wanted me to use the terminal to do anything. I'll stick to double clicking exe files on my Windows system. Thanks for the adventure, though.

HatePirate · Post by **HatePirate** » March 3, 2005, 3:09 am

Well fuck. Fedora is just as buggy as SuSE. In Fedora, by keyboard randomly stops responding. Everytime I run Up2Date it freezes! FUCK! Is there any linux distro that will run on my computer?! Is it the x86_64 build that is fucking everything up? Would running the i386 build (even though my system is 64 bit) possibly work any better.

Everyday I grow more pissed at linux.

Post by **Paco103** » March 3, 2005, 4:07 pm

I know nothing about the 64 builds, I've only run a 32 build - but I've never had crashing or hanging problems like that.

rchif0 · Post by **rchif0** » March 3, 2005, 8:20 pm

I think it's funny because.. while using Fedora, TRC picked up a virus worm thing that went from one hard drive to the other and has had his ethernet jack turned off for 2 days. BUT OH WAIT LINUX IS MORE SECURE I REMEMBER NOW. Even though this never happened with XP.

Post by **Paco103** » March 3, 2005, 11:01 pm

Big problem with boxed linux distro's though (and this isn't a problem with linux, it's a problem with the packages OTHER people put out). Most of them come out of the box with every service/server you could ever want turned on. And they are often installed with a default admin/blank password configuration. This isn't Linux's fault, it's the distro providers'.