Can’t remember if I partitioned it with /home on a separate partition or not. Will have to look when I get home. Thanks for the suggestions.
For what it’s worth, it’s a dual-boot system with “Windoze” (Vista) on a different partition. I go back and forth between them, depending on my mood (and if I have to do work at home - we are a Windoze development shop here).
Looks like I will be moving to 10.3 in a bit myself.
Can’t seem to shake this freeze-up going on.
Heeter
Magic31 said:
You could try booting into runlevel 3 by entering ’ init 3 ’ as boot option.
At the login screen log in as root and issue ’ zypper remove beagle ’
When that has been done search for other beagle related packages with ’ rpm -qa | grep beagle ’ , the only package I’ve left on the system that has to do with beagle is libbeagle1-xxx’ due to some dependencies.
edit: as for ReiserFS, edit your fstab and replace existing options on your Reiser partitions with ’ noatime,noacl ’
I’ve been running smoothly for +three weeks now with a fresh install on … yep, reiser.
I did all your suggestions, plus I re-added the NVidia repository under Yast (updating the URL for openSuse 11.0) and updated my video drivers, and now things appear to be working swimmingly. Thanks a lot!
Heeter said:
Can’t seem to shake this freeze-up going on.
No freeze-ups yet, but time will tell. I have not had it going again for very long, yet.
Suse 11 is really not useful. Face it. It was a rushed mistake. That’s all.
Every distro does it once in a while. This one was never ready for prime time.
Always learn from past mistakes. It’s a good thing. I’m sure the next one will be more carefully tested and put togather.
But it really is not useful. I have lock ups test the 64 bit everwhere randomly as well. Hang loging into kde.
That wierd dependency output while installing software.
Should you reconfigure these. Not to allow this one to uninstall. Ignore dependencies?
???
???
How can it not get messed up.
It was just put out WAY!!! too soon.
So it’s really not useful to anyone yet.
10.2 was not too bad. Still had kde problems and had to re-add users to get the desktop back etc… But at least it ran ok as a server.
Can’t agree with you there although I do agree openSUSE 11 does have some caveats that are a big shame to have sneaked into the final… (see the poll ’ does opensuse 11 need a remastered version… and drop your vote/comment there ’ 
)
I’ve been working full time on the openSUSE 11 release, and if anything I find it the most solid and easy to use release so far.
There have been major improvements in many aspects and although I think 10.3 is top of the bill for the 10 series, I would not want to switch back to it as I would be missing 11.
It is a 11.0 release (emphase on the 0) with many updates, KDE 4 isn’t ready for prime time, but thats been vented so much it should be as known as Coca-Cola. 
This beagle and Reiser issue is a shame but a fix/workaround is there. So overall 11 is a good release AFAIC.
Just my two cents,
Wj
did i happen to mention that i’ve not had one single lock-up since 11.0,
KDE4 and Firefox3 hit the streets??
the reason (i guess) for that is i’m running a pretty stable and fully
patched SuSE 10.3, with KDE 3.5.7 and Firefox 2.0.0.14
yep, i hated to leave 10.2 and didn’t until 10.3 had been out about 5
months, and 11.0 was just around the corner (and by then it took a HUGE
pile of updates/patches to smooth out 10.3)…my guess is that in about
five more months most (not all) of the bumpy crud in 11.0 will be
cleaned up…but, my thought is to wait until about 6 six months after
11.1 is out, and then give it a try…
i don’t see the utility of being on the bleeding edge, if one is not
willing to BLEED!!
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
I had the same problem of the desktop locking up as soon as I login. It seems like compiz was causing the desktop to freeze. Changing the Default window manager from Xgl to Xorg.
Here is what I did to fix the issue:
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Login in Failsafe mode
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Invoke YAST to install the latest kernel updates
yast2 --ncurses -
Use the sysconfig editor in YAST to change the default display manager from Xgl to Xorg.
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Save and Reboot.
Thanks
I am running a 64-bit version of 11.0 and have not had a single problem. I must
say, however, that I stayed with KDE3 - I didn’t care for the look and feel of
4.0 during the 11.0 testing phase. I still have 10.3 on one partition of my
drive, but I’m about to blow it away to test another distro.
I had random hang problems, propbabily relate with ReiserFS.
After the kernel update
kernel-default-2.6.25.9-0.2.x86_64.rpm
Linux rincewind 2.6.25.9-0.2-default #1 SMP 2008-06-28 00:00:07 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The sistem was pretty stable …
I have had 2 random lockups in the past 2 days. Both when I was transferring stuff to the computer via samba (about 7gb at a time). I was not running firefox at the time. I was however logged in remotely to the computer. I wonder if this has something to do with high network load or something?
> I have had 2 random lockups in the past 2 days. Both when I was
> transferring stuff to the computer via samba (about 7gb at a time). I
> was not running firefox at the time. I was however logged in remotely
> to the computer. I wonder if this has something to do with high network
> load or something?
Hello dtd33inc,
let me suggest instead of posting to this 22 day old thread which may or
may not have anything to do with YOUR problem…why not start your own
new thread…maybe use the subject
“Random lockup during large transfer via Samba”…
and, post it to the Network/Internet forum where the real gurus on
questions about internet applications, network configuration, usage
(SAMBA, network printing, NFS and etc) hang out…
be sure an tell those networking gurus about your hardware and software
in use (on your machine, and the other one you are sending large files
to/from) and all the particulars of what you mean when you say “lock
up”…what did it do? keyboard freeze, black screen, error message,
power down, what??
or alternatively you might want to see what else you can find that
might provide you help by using the web forum’s search page
<http://forums.opensuse.org/search.php> to find all threads with any of
these terms in the title:
freez* OR lock* OR crash* OR hang*
but, as you read through those do NOT post your new question at the
bottom of a old, long, winding thread and expect to get the attention
YOU deserve…
oh, and for SURE you will want to read all threads in the networking
forum which mention freeze, freezing, lockup, lock-up, crash, crashing,
hang etc etc etc…
good luck, and have fun!
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
Well the 22 day old thread thing did not bother me. However I was getting random lockups so the thread was in the ballpark. Some people suggested it was Firefox, but others were not sure. So I listed my problem to see if maybe that could shed some light on others problems.
For example people were questioning the user of Nvidia drivers, maybe these other users are also using Samba and transferring large files and just attributed their lockups to something like Firefox 3.
Oh come on, seriously, the forums post by dtd was appropriate for this section, 22 days old or not it was relevant. I get grumpy when I see things like “let me suggest instead of”, and “but, as you read through those do NOT post” all the while disguised in niceness “good luck, and have fun!”
If I were to follow the same pattern I would now “suggest” that instead of you suggesting what he should and should NOT do, rather respond to the query with a solution or do NOT bother responding at all.
Oh and in case you didn’t understand this, I was being funny see the happy face!
Hey dtd,
As the original poster, I finally realized what my problem was.
It was a bad install. I re-downloaded (if this is a word) 11.0 32bit, and reinstalled it. Right off the bat it was working better. But for time’s sakes, I did remove beagle completely. The Samba/fstab config, the huge file transfers, Firefox and the nvidia drivers were not the problem, although they were giving me a headache while I was trying to salvage a bad install.
Heeter
it was not my intention to say you had done anything wrong…simply that
if you think it is a networking problem you might wanna consider letting
the networking gurus have a look at it…and, use a descriptive subject
line so it does not get lost way down inside a thread named “OpenSuse 11
still locking up”
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
FLuffyneedsastick wrote:
> Oh come on, seriously, the forums post by dtd was appropriate for this
> section, 22 days old or not it was relevant. I get grumpy when I see
> things like “let me suggest instead of”, and “but, as you read through
> those do NOT post” all the while disguised in niceness “good luck, and
> have fun!”
> If I were to follow the same pattern I would now “suggest” that instead
> of you suggesting what he should and should NOT do, rather respond to
> the query with a solution or do NOT bother responding at all.
>
> Oh and in case you didn’t understand this, I was being funny see the
> happy face!
Dear Grumpy,
your input is very highly valued…thanks!
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
Well since I am not 100% sure what the issue was, OpenSuse 11 still locking up is a good title, and since it was already taken I decided to use this one :). But no honestly I do not know why it crashed those two times. It was just funny it only did it while I was doing something like transferring files. I will keep looking 
> I will keep looking
have a look here, it is my best shot at putting together in one place
what i’ve read in the forums: http://tinyurl.com/6oo8cg
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark