Am 15. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Siri Amrit Kaur so: > I'm running Slackware 10.0 and KDE 3.2.3. I had stuff set up the way I like > it, and little by little things seem to be breaking. I've noticed this > before, and it's almost like I need to do a fresh install to get everything > working again. I'm waiting for 10.1 to come out before I do another install. The main ways a system can 'deteriorate' are: 1. further software installs 2. software updates 3. software, especially kernel drivers, getting wedged 4. hardware flaking 1 and 2 can cause conf file, lib and /dev changes. 3 can cause 4 and vice versa. Rebooting ( as much as I hate recommending it ) can fix 3 and maybe 4. > For instance, I used to be able to play music CD's from the CD-ROM drive, > either by pressing the play button on the drive or using the KDE CD player or > XMMS. I can't do that anymore. It doesn't "see" /dev/hdd anymore. It used to > work, then a few months ago it got all glitchy. I managed to reconfigure > things somehow in the CD player app and it worked, but now it's failed again. > Any apps I try to use generally lock up while searching for the drive. If it > finds the disc at all, it plays for one second then stops. Could be that the CDROM is in a funky state. Could also be that it's breaking. One of the reasons I move all my music to ogg and listen from disk :). > When I press the play button on the drive itself, it revs up then slacks off, > over and over. It used to work, now it doesn't. I haven't changed anything > in /etc/fstab, or anything else that I know of. I know the drive is good > because I use it for ripping stuff to my harddrive all the time. > > Another example is SMTP in Kmail. It will work fine for months, then suddenly > I can't send mail from tigerflag.com, and neither can my husband in his user > account. I get an error message that it can't find the account. This happened > a few months ago. At one point I rebooted the computer and things were fine > again. When it happened yesterday, I finally toggled the default account to > intergate.com (I use two accounts: smtp.intergate.com and smtp.tigerflag.com) > and it started working again for _both_ accounts. It was like something got > jammed, and once I successfully sent from intergate.com, then tigerflag.com > worked again. It doesn't make any sense! Sounds like Kmail ( or some lib ) had marked the connection as being down and changing the default reset the flag. ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.AZOTO.org/ # Molotov Bible - religion thrown at other people in order to cause an # explosive situation - der.hans --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss