Re: [SLUG] suse upgrade (7.0 to 7.3)

From: Thomas A. Ufer (tufer@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Feb 23 2002 - 23:02:26 EST


"Patrick Grantham (at Home)" wrote:

> Just upgraded from 7.0 to 7.3 and how I regret it! After nearly 3 years of
> flawless operation I have royally messed up the system. Sure the "update"
> went without any reported errors, but the resulting configuration problems
> can probably best be explained by some nitwit who formally was a Microsoft
> GUI tech decided to moved around file location without regards to reason.
> The moved the samba from /etc to etc/samba, deleted by index.html to then
> pointed apache to their index.html.en (never thought to actually leave the
> existing.) apache points to a non-existent index.html Samba won't start at
> boot time anymore, neither will sendmail. But what is most aggravating is
> they rearranged the structure for how KDE stores user specific settings.
> Gone is .desktop with all the icon and .menu as well. Now we have .Kdesktop
> (just to name one.) KDE loads with no menu items, desktop icons with only
> text and won't do anything. Not a single link works. I suspect there is a
> config file I can edit to begin to untangle this mess. Any suggestions?

downgrade to 7.0 ?



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