Beta 8.10 released

Art Alexion art.alexion at gmail.com
Sun Oct 12 16:51:26 UTC 2008


On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 09 October 2008, Art Alexion wrote:
>>On Thursday 09 October 2008 5:56:35 am Art Alexion wrote:
>>> > Ok, reverse the debate: I have never had Amarok crash on me...ever.
>>> > Kmail crashed once a month ago. I use both 12 hours a day, with hard-
>>> > core usage and email going back to 1994 in 200 folders, and 30gb of
>>> > music. Do I disbelieve you? Nope, just glad it ain't me having the
>>> > crashes. I would encourage you to launch from the command line and
>>> > look for a reason that kmail crashes...might be something easy to
>>> > debug or easy to report.
>>>
>>> Amarok crashes on me twice a day. Kmail 3.5.10 crashes thrice daily.
>>> 3.9.9 never crashed that I recall.
>>
>>This is the greeting from my computer this morning
>
> I would submit that you have hardware problems.  Bad memory or ??  Slowed fan
> on the cpu or its cooler clogged with dust bunnies?

Possible, but that would mean the hardware failure coincided with the
3.5.9 > 3.5.10 update.


>
> Uptimes here rarely exceed 10 days cuz I follow the kernel -rc series, but I
> can't recall the last time kmail crashed.  Currently running 3.5.10-1 from
> the F8 repo.
>
> The biggest problem I have here is that kde seems to have alzheimers when it
> comes to remembering the screen blanker and monitor powerdown settings, so I
> have to change something by 1 minute and refresh those settings every other
> day or so.

I don't have that problem.



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