Re: Violence: Lethal StarOffice, terminal Apache, broken partitions...
Peter,
I am having the same problem while trying to run the StarOffice 5 setup - the screen appears, a dialog box comes up with nothing but a "Next" button and my computer locks up. I doubt very much that it is a bad memory chip. I do suspect, however, that the problem is with the X server. There is a patch on StarDivision's web page for S3ViRGE chipsets, but I am not sure if it will fix the installation problems we are having. I've downloaded it, but have not tried it yet. What video card are you using? Which X server?
HTH
Jeff Miller
>>> "Peter (Troff) Petroff" <peterp@ucaqld.com.au> 12/16/98 8:35:28 PM >>>
Hi all,
quick questions:
1) Can anyone think of a reason why running the setup of StarOffice 5 would
cause a complete (and I mean complete) freeze and hang of a computer?
Said computer is an AMD K6-233 with 128MB running Hamm (2.02), under kernel
2.0.34. X-Windows WAS working fine up until then.
2) To get out of the freeze, I had to power down without a shutting down. Now
my partition is fragged. Defrag with diagnostic options says "Bad magic number
in super-block". Defrag in action says it can't work on an active partition.
I tried booting with the Rescue disk, LILO specifiying 'linux
root=/dev/fd0/root.bin'. The system then does ask for a root disk. I insert my
root disk, churn churn churn, system freeze again.
Is there an easy way to repair the damage or am I going to have to re-install
the whole system?
3) I had a problem with Apache dying for no apparent reason. Someone really
really nice and wonderful whose name I forgot but have written down told me to
check error logs and suprise, it said that ServerName wasn't set. But the
thing was, Apache WORKED for a few days before it failed to start up and I
made NO repeat NO changes to ANY Apache configs. When I set ServerName, it DID
start working again. But what the heck caused it to fail in the first place?
I love you guys, I really do. Thank you for helping me take steps to escape
the Winborg Collective.
--
Peter Petroff, part-time IT Support
Lifestyle Support Services (LSS), Queensland Synod Uniting Church of Australia
part-time IT student, Queensland University of Technology.
Note: Opinions expressed are the author's and not those of the LSS.
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