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I did not intend to send this mail yet, but I accidentally did. It |
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happened when kwin started doing weird things again, like transparent |
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window titles, window content being all black or grey and such. Happens |
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after a few days of KDE4 sesstion uptime, the kwin proecess has grown to |
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some hundred megs (the record was 1.3G) then. |
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I wanted to close the running applications before logging out, which |
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somehow worked for the composing window of this mail, although it was |
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meant to end in the drafts folder, not here. |
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There was also a konqueror window which had some open tabs with threads |
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about this KDEPIM problem, forutunately I was able to save them, despite |
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the bookmark menu being all grey. |
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For the moment, I have disabled kmail in kontact, and grouped the |
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kontact window with a thunderbird window. Now the next problem is that |
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thunderbird does not check my IMAP folders for new mail, only the one I |
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am currently in. Do I fix this problem? Or better invest the time in |
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fixing this KDEPIM problem? Try another mail client? |
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None of those. Instead I install Linux Mint [*] on my Mom's notebook. |
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Again. |
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Because I just killed the existing installation. After some tweaking it |
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worked fine, so I thought it was time for a backup of /boot and ~/.* |
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files on a backup partition, which I had to create first. |
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Before: |
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/dev/sda7 10G /root |
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/dev/sda8 10G /home |
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free space 28G |
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After: |
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/dev/sda7 10G /root |
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/dev/sda8 20G /home |
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/dev/sda9 8G /backup |
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resize2fs /dev/sda8 said the partition was at maximum size already, so I |
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rebooted. And no longer had a /home. Shouldn't this have been safe? |
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I removed /home from fstab so the boot process would not stop again. But |
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now X does not come up. And the console stays black. Somehow, eth0 is |
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down, but wlan0 is connected, I can log in via ssh in order to activate |
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the Grub menu, so I could remove the quiet option. Mint / Ubuntu does |
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not show a Grub menu, booting starts without delay. In Mint, even |
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pressing the escape key does not show the boot process, not sure how |
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this was in Ubunbtu. There is no fancy splash image either in Mint, so |
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the might be something wrong here. I wanted to activate the menu, |
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realized that Grub2 does things SO DIFFERENT from the Grub I know, but |
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then found /etc/default/grub, with lines like GRUB_HIDDEN_MENU=true or |
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something like that, and a comment said the update-grub command would |
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take care of this. I ran it, rebooted, and now I still see no menu. |
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Good: the boot messages are visible. Bad: they are totally distorted and |
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not readable, I think this is the new kernel or initrd I got installed |
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with update-grub. Had this before with Ubuntu when I allowed it to |
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install closed-source video drivers. |
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So I just did a fresh install, now I will configure what I already had |
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configured before. Then comes KDEPIM maybe, after some sleep. |
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Wonko |
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[*] No, not Gentoo. I want a quick setup, no long compiles to keep it up |
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to date, and I hoped for some additional distro magic that would |
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automatically detect my WLAN & stuff. |
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