I installed Mageia 8 in order to detect errors and report them. I
always use KDE. Unfortunately I was unable to do anything with Mageia 8.
The taskbar does not appear. In previous versions I was able to get
around this problem by creating taskbars. This solution did not work
this time.
I installed Mageia 8 in order to detect errors and report them. I always use KDE. Unfortunately I was unable to do anything with Mageia 8.
The taskbar does not appear. In previous versions I was able to get
around this problem by creating taskbars. This solution did not work
this time.
Was this with /home from a prior version? Have you ensured the latest updated
packages have been installed?
Note that with cauldron, updates replace the old version in the core repositories,
rather then being added to the updates repos. That can cause problems if
a repo
syncs with the main Mageia repo in between the package being uploaded to
the main
repo, and the list of packages available on that repo (hdlist.cz file)
being
rebuilt, the adding of the repo may fail, and trying to install that
package
will fail. The workaround for that problem is to wait for the mirror to resync,
which the tier 1 mirrors do, at least once per hour.
Cauldron is harder to work with then the stable releases. Problems are expected.
When I started using Linux I used a common / home but I soon realized
that there were differences between the configuration files of different versions.
From then on, I started using different users for each
distribution. If I'm using openSUSE Leap 15.2, the username is leap152,
in Slackware it's slack142 and so on.
The purpose of the alpha version is to serve for testing before the
final version. I expected to be able to contribute by reporting some
errors but with me it was not at all usable.
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:42:40 -0300, Gilberto F da Silva wrote:
When I started using Linux I used a common / home but I soon realized
that there were differences between the configuration files of different
versions.
Very true.
From then on, I started using different users for each
distribution. If I'm using openSUSE Leap 15.2, the username is leap152,
in Slackware it's slack142 and so on.
My solution is to have /home on each install in /, with links of common
files and whatnot to a common area. Some ls -l example snippets:
.bash_profile -> /accounts/bittwister/.bash_profile
.cron -> /accounts/bittwister/.cron
Desktop -> /accounts/bittwister/Desktop
Documents -> /accounts/bittwister/Documents
mail -> /accounts/bittwister/mail
.signature -> /accounts/bittwister/.signature
.thunderbird -> /accounts/bittwister/.thunderbird
David W. Hodgins wrote:
Was this with /home from a prior version? Have you ensured the latest
updated
packages have been installed?
Note that with cauldron, updates replace the old version in the core
repositories,
rather then being added to the updates repos. That can cause problems
if a repo
syncs with the main Mageia repo in between the package being uploaded
to the main
repo, and the list of packages available on that repo (hdlist.cz file)
being
rebuilt, the adding of the repo may fail, and trying to install that
package
will fail. The workaround for that problem is to wait for the mirror
to resync,
which the tier 1 mirrors do, at least once per hour.
Cauldron is harder to work with then the stable releases. Problems are
expected.
When I started using Linux I used a common / home but I soon realized
that there were differences between the configuration files of different versions. From then on, I started using different users for each distribution. If I'm using openSUSE Leap 15.2, the username is leap152,
in Slackware it's slack142 and so on.
The purpose of the alpha version is to serve for testing before the
final version. I expected to be able to contribute by reporting some
errors but with me it was not at all usable.
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