On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 02:35:43PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > I'd posted about my update a while back, and while some folks were > encouraging me to go all the way to 11 since it's the current version, > my thinking has been to see how things are working, what's changed, > what broke, etc. and deal with all of that before I continue on in the > update process. > > Some of the things I'm dealing with are: > > 1. An annoying blue dot showed up in my taskbar. > Right-clicking on this gave me an option to "quit", which I would do, > and then within a few seconds it would come right back again! I finally > tracked this down to being "KDEaccessible", which I've done nothing to > invoke and don't know why the upgrade put that in there. I solved the > problem by using synaptic to uninstall the package, since I have no use > for it. >
This one is solved for the moment, then. > 2. My virtual (older) Slackware virtualbox install is seeing a few issues. > One of them is that there is apparently a screensaver kicking in after > some extended period of time. I can't find any place where this is > enabled, to turn it off. I wasn't using one before and don't want one > now. Suggestions? > XFCE desktop: if this is blanking the screen, try checking for power settings. If it's an _actual_ screensaver with patterns - check to see what screen saving/locking programs come by default. > 3. Also under the Slackware virtualbox sound has quit working. > When I boot it, I get a message that says "Host audio backend (PulseAudio) > initialization has failed. Selecting the NULL audio backend with the > consequence that no sound is audible." I'm not sure what changed here > either. On the host (Debian) side, audio works fine for, ferinstance, > playing a youtube video. But for some things I want to be able to play > audio under Slackware as well. I found an item in the Xfce applications > menu under Multimedia that says "Pulseaudio Volume Control" and when I > hit that I get a smallish popup window with no apparent content other > than "Establishing connection to PulseAudio, please wait..." and then > nothing happens for a good long while now. Suggestions? > How old id the virtualbox version - is there an option for audio passthrough or similar? > 4. There is *something* kicking off around midnight local time that > produces a whole lot of disk activity for a few minutes, slowing down > whatever else I might be doing at the time. I've looked at various things > like cron, at, etc. to see if I can find something in there but no luck > so far. Suggestions? > Run top / ps -elf | less to see what processes are running and check what seems to be eating memory or disk? > There's probably more, but I would like to get these things ironed out > before I go chasing any more stuff, and before I continue on the upgrade > path... > Hi Roy, I would seriously suggest upgrading from 9 to at least 10. You might sort out some of the issues but, more importantly, will be moving up to a better supported system With every good wish, as ever, Andy Cater > > -- > Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and > ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can > be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" > - > Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James > M Dakin >
