pursley1@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > You know, I don't know what it is but my system just seems to be > behaving very strange. I'm only commenting on this and am not really > expecting a response but thought I'd like to share my frustrations. > > 1) I couldn't synch my Palm via USB cable even though I had all the > right software and setting installed and it turned out to be a > mystery setting that hardly anyone was having problems with. - Now > fixed. > > 2) Every now and then, when I print documents, they get sent to the > que and then disappear without a trace, or an error for that matter. > > 3) Even though FC8 seems to install the ability to get an icon when > something is in the que, mine never worked and therefor never knew > it was suppose to be there. In fact, absolutely *NONE* of the > standard ways of viewing the que from Xwindows worked. Now, for no > reason at all by poking around looking at the info on them and > without changing any settings, suddenly it's started working after > rebooting. Go figure! > > 4) I occasionally have non-Linux partitions unmounting > automatically with no error given or manual assistance. > > 5) ...and other idiotic things that happen occasionally. > > I'm starting to feel the urge to ask the question, "Is Linux stable > anymore?" Since I get the sense that no one else is having these > problems and more I wonder if I'm losing my mind.... You seem to me to be raising 3 or 4 completely unrelated issues, none of which are very clearly described. I'm sure you would be better off dealing with them separately. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
