Recently I thought it was time to try Debian (I've previously mainly used SuSE) so installed woody on my PC, and it all seems jolly fine, but then after using it for a while get slightly narked that eg. my Konqueror windows keep freezing and for some reason I can't unmount CDs with the desktop icon. After grumbling a bit about so-called "stable" releases I do some investigation and it turns out Konqueror is hanging talking to the sgi_fam service so I comment out the:
#:OTHER: Other services #391002/1-2 stream rpc/tcp wait root /usr/sbin/famd fam line in /etc/inetd.conf and all is well, no freezes, can even unmount cds. I don't know if this is common, though looking at the web, sgi_fam does seem a little problematic. I was talking to a friend who is a long-time Debian user and he couldn't find any trace of sgi_fam on his woody system, so I'm wondering how it got installed on mine. I was wondering if I gave the wrong answer to one the installation questions, but looking at the installer.log I can't see any questions about fam or sgi_fam, so perhaps it is part of some security updates or something. (Incidentally, is there some way of sensibly replaying a installer.log.n file? I can cat it to a terminal and get a very rapid display of what I did, but it all goes by a bit fast, but eg. piping through "more" messes up the curses stuff). Having sorted this, I must say I like Debian very much, no more SuSE for me I think. Matthew. ps. I tried posting this with gnus, but that didn't seem to work, apologies if anyone sees this twice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
