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
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