I was just wondering if anyone has noticed etch being a little flaky recently. I've been experiencing a fair few application crashes lately. KDE apps in particular have been really unstable (Kontact and Kspread come to mind). Openoffice only occasionally starts.
Is it only me, or is anyone else having issues currently.
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Is etch being a little flaky
- DeanLinkous
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I installed testing/KDE the other day just to look at some things and I seem to end up with some sort of crash everytime I have used it for a good while. In fact I had to kill arts because it kept maxing out my cpu. Yet, gnome seems fine. I am hoping something just went wrong and it was a bad KDE install or I broke something somewhere.
I run icewm, and the only problem I have had with etch (a big one, though) is that udev does not recreate devices properly after a reboot. This has been mentioned in the Etch errata. Sometimes I lost my network device and usually I lost my sound device. However, I found that swapping my ISA sound card for a PCI one solved the sound device problem. I also have had much better luck using the weekly testing cd builds or upgrading from Sarge rather than the official Etch Beta 2 installer. Dist upgrading from sarge has never caused me those problems, and using the weekly cd builds has never broken networking.