Do the iso's on the mirrors or slackware ftp get updated at all, or are
they the same now as when 10 was released?
The reason I ask is, I was having a freezing problem when I installed 10.
Everything would freeze for about 30-50 seconds every 20 mins or so.
Couldn't move the mouse or anything. I switched to suse 9.1 but god do I
miss slackware

nobody wrote:

> Do the iso's on the mirrors or slackware ftp get updated at all, or are
> they the same now as when 10 was released?
> The reason I ask is, I was having a freezing problem when I installed 10.
> Everything would freeze for about 30-50 seconds every 20 mins or so.
> Couldn't move the mouse or anything. I switched to suse 9.1 but god do I
> miss slackware

Sounds like more of a problem with your RAM or something, or maybe the CDs
you burnt it to.

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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 03:08:53 +0000, nobody wrote:
> Do the iso's on the mirrors or slackware ftp get updated at all, or are

The ONLY time I know of this happening was 8.1->8.1.01 which had a
patched apache and openssh. The ISO image was updated because the mass
replication for the official CD's had not yet been done when these
significant security issues wer announced. The actual version received
by purchasers of the official 8.1 set was 8.1.01.

> Couldn't move the mouse or anything. I switched to suse 9.1 but god do I
> miss slackware

If SuSE will run on your machine, so will Slackware. Something
(probably X11) wasn't configured properly. Yes, SuSE will do a much
better job of handholding ... which is why it's not Slackware.
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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 03:08:53 +0000, nobody wrote:

> Do the iso's on the mirrors or slackware ftp get updated at all, or are
> they the same now as when 10 was released?
> The reason I ask is, I was having a freezing problem when I installed 10.
> Everything would freeze for about 30-50 seconds every 20 mins or so.
> Couldn't move the mouse or anything. I switched to suse 9.1 but god do I
> miss slackware

If you are using KDE and kernel 2.4.26 I may have an explanation and a
solution for you.

In my case, the problem was caused by the audio cd browser function. This
is the applet that searches the CDROM for a music CD and then represents
the cd as folder with wavs, mp3s oggs etc. It's located in the side panel
of konqueror under the Services tab.

In my case, this applet, as a user, would spin and spin and never be able
to open. Oddly it worked fine as root so there was some permissions
problem. But I had set permissions correctly for CDROM and CRWRITER, as
well as sr0 and sr1, and could burn and mount cds on both just fine. I use
ide-scsi. When I logged out of KDE (I use startx, not kdm/gdm) I would see
the latest error messages indicating that kde was searching for some way
to access the cdrom that it had permissions for and could not find one. It
was subsequently searching through all of /dev, which took about 20
minutes and then it would give up with a different error and cause KDE to
freeze for 2 or 3 seconds, unfreeze for a second, then freeze again for
4-5 seconds.

Clicking on the disfunctional audiocd applet in konqueror gave a message
similar to "cannot access cdrom: no permissions for /dev/sg0" or
something similar.

So I went to /dev and changed the permissions to what I have below:

crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 21, 0 1999-04-13 00:24 sg0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 21, 1 1999-04-13 00:24 sg1
crw------- 1 root root 21, 10 1999-04-13 00:24 sg10
crw------- 1 root root 21, 11 1999-04-13 00:24 sg11
crw------- 1 root root 21, 12 1999-04-13 00:24 sg12
crw------- 1 root root 21, 13 1999-04-13 00:24 sg13
crw------- 1 root root 21, 14 1999-04-13 00:24 sg14

I included the others to show what the permissions had been. I have a
cdrom and a cdburner so I changed both sg0 and sg1, but if you only have
one the sg0 will be the only one you may need to edit.

That solved my problem as well as the same problem for 2 or 3 others I
have suggested it to so perhaps it will help you too.

Sorry for the long post if your situation is different. Maybe it will
help someone else.

Steve

nobody wrote:

> Do the iso's on the mirrors or slackware ftp get updated at all, or are
> they the same now as when 10 was released?

No. Just get all the patches from [mirror]/slackware-10.0/patches/packages,
and do "upgradepkg --install-new *.tgz", after you've installed.

nobody wrote:

> Do the iso's on the mirrors or slackware ftp get updated at all, or are
> they the same now as when 10 was released?

The official Slackware-10 ISOs won't have changed, but there is also the
Slackware-current tree, which most certainly does get updated regularly.
Some mirrors provide frequently updated Slackware-current ISOs, but check
the dates carefully to find out exactly which changes you're getting with
that ISO. Whether you install from a Slackware-10 ISO or a
Slackware-current ISO, you might want to pick up the latest additions to
current anyway.

However, without specific analysis of the freezing problem, it is difficult
to determine if any of the recent updates will have solved that issue for
you. The only time I've had something like that happen was when I used
nvidia's proprietary video drivers a couple of years ago.

Jeffrey