Your message dated Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:15:25 +0000 with message-id <3844062D.7139C6FE@kde.org> and subject line (no subject) has caused the attached bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I'm talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Stephan Kulow (administrator, KDE bugs database) Received: (at submit) by bugs.kde.org; 11 Nov 1999 04:45:33 +0000 From paul@pcberk.mv.com Thu Nov 11 05:45:33 1999 Received: from mercury.mv.net ([199.125.85.40]:61700 "EHLO mercury.mv.net") by max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de with ESMTP id ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 05:45:16 +0100 Received: from pcberk.mv.com (paul@bnh-6-42.mv.com [199.125.98.106]) by mercury.mv.net (8.8.8/mem-971025) with ESMTP id XAA01038 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 23:45:12 -0500 (EST) Sender: paul@mercury.mv.net Message-ID: <382A5C5E.F1036633@pcberk.mv.com> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 01:04:14 -0500 From: Ppcberk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: submit@bugs.kde.org Subject: Bug report KDE Theme Manager Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;submit@bugs.kde.org This bug is probably the same one reported in log #2180 and may be the same one reported in #1511. After browsing through several themes the system totally hangs and, although the mouse cursor will still move, the mouse buttons and keyboard do nothing. I have found no way to recover except to do a hardware reset. This, of course, causes major problems in rebooting the system and in many cases files are lost. The problem is with Linux-Mandrake 6.0, but I also have RedHat 5.2 on other partitions of the same hard drive so I can mount the Mandrake 6.0 partitions under RedHat 5.2 and examine or repair them. In the best case erasing .xpm files in the .kde directory in my home directory cleared the problem. In the worst cases I have lost files that required me to reinstall Linux. Among the files that were missing were /etc/fstab, /var/lib/nfs/xtab and /usr/share/config/kdmrc. In one case the entire /home directory, which was on a seperate partition was empty. Another time I reinstalled kdebase, got another crash and, although kdmrc was present it was empty after the crash and attempted reboot. I have reinstalled Mandrake 6.0 at least 6 or 7 times because of damage to the file system while trying to diagnose the problem. In almost every case I changed the size and locations of the partitions on the hard drive, so I am confident that the problem is not a bad area on the hard drive. Also RedHat 5.2 and DOS partitions on the same hard disk are stable. I currently have Mandrake installed with a different file manager until this can be resolved. Paul