A weired system.
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Fri Mar 14 14:36:28 UTC 2008
pursley1 at netscape.net wrote:
> You know, I don't know what it is but my system just seems to be
> behaving very strange. I'm only commenting on this and am not really
> expecting a response but thought I'd like to share my frustrations.
>
> 1) I couldn't synch my Palm via USB cable even though I had all the
> right software and setting installed and it turned out to be a
> mystery setting that hardly anyone was having problems with. - Now
> fixed.
>
> 2) Every now and then, when I print documents, they get sent to the
> que and then disappear without a trace, or an error for that matter.
>
> 3) Even though FC8 seems to install the ability to get an icon when
> something is in the que, mine never worked and therefor never knew
> it was suppose to be there. In fact, absolutely *NONE* of the
> standard ways of viewing the que from Xwindows worked. Now, for no
> reason at all by poking around looking at the info on them and
> without changing any settings, suddenly it's started working after
> rebooting. Go figure!
>
> 4) I occasionally have non-Linux partitions unmounting
> automatically with no error given or manual assistance.
>
> 5) ...and other idiotic things that happen occasionally.
>
> I'm starting to feel the urge to ask the question, "Is Linux stable
> anymore?" Since I get the sense that no one else is having these
> problems and more I wonder if I'm losing my mind....
You seem to me to be raising 3 or 4 completely unrelated issues,
none of which are very clearly described.
I'm sure you would be better off dealing with them separately.
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Timothy Murphy
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