Problems with SUSE 10.3

[skaterkid]

Ok well I am currently running a dual boot SUSE 10.3 (just updated) and windows XP on my Linux system I have just installed screenlets and compiz-fusion along with emerald themes. For some reason, may be because of the new software installations I have been having a lot of system freeze ups and bug reports. Firefox randomly crashes every once and a while and my default terminal (gnome terminal) crashes on start up and runs a bug report when I run it by right mouse clicking and selecting Open Terminal. I tried to run repair installed system with the installation CD but it just says that there was a installation error and doesn't run. Could anyone help me fix eather of the problems I have been having?

[robin_bga]

Hi,
About the the cd repair error, i think that is general for all those who downloaded it from the internet, i sometimes want to use the old 10.2 for repairing any problems, then about the other crashes u have, i think u need to do an automatic update by activating the opensuse updater in yast. But then what u can do is open yo syslog and view the problems that should be in miscellaneous + system log. it will give u all the events that occured then.
Hope that solve yo problems

[gogalthorp]

Did you run update or did you run install and save your home partition?

Update does not in general overwrite the old configuration files on root. It does preserve all of /home config files

10.3 introduced some major changes on how config files are to be setup. xorg.conf comes to mind.

This is why I always do a Install and tell the installer not to for amt the home partition.

You must also update or reinstall all the stuff that might not have been on the Installation disk from the repositories.

[skaterkid]

So if I understand you correctly when I re-install I will have no screenlets, compiz-fusion, Nvidea drivers or emerald themes? Also I have a lot of programs form previous versions of SUSE such as all the old games from 10.1 and 10.2 will I have to reinstall all of those because they are not on the SUSE 10.3 repository CD?

[gogalthorp]

Yep.

Any of these things might be setup different from one version to the next. This is why there is a different repository address for each Suse version. Why bother having a 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3 directory in the repository if they are all exactly the same.

Ever try to use a WIn98 driver in VISTA???