Alfred von Campe wrote: > I've been a big fan of CentOS for a while, and didn't have many issues > with CentOS 4.X over the past few years. However, since moving to > CentOS 5.1 a few weeks ago, I have received more problem reports from my > users than in the last year and a half on CentOS 4.X. I've previously > reported the problem with gnome-terminal crashing (and since there is a > single gnome-terminal process by default all your terminal windows > disappear which makes this really painful), and now I'm getting multiple > reports of Gnome applets suddenly quitting. Sometimes this includes the > entire screen "flashing" (probably a side effect of the "Show Desktop" > applet exiting). I've also had reports of some third party tools like > SlickEdit misbehaving and/or crashing on CentOS 5.1. > > Don't get me wrong; I'm not really complaining about CentOS. I really > appreciate what the CentOS team does. I am just wondering if anyone > else has seen these issues. If it was just one or two users, I would > suspect the hardware or some configuration issues. But these issues > started cropping up after I upgraded our existing systems to CentOS > 5.1. The "upgrade" was a complete reinstall via a kickstart script (I > reformatted all partitions/LVs except for one), and all systems are > configured identically. BTW, I'm using CentOS for our desktops as well > as our servers, and all these problems are really confined to the > desktop systems. Almost everyone uses the default Gnome desktop. > > So, does anyone else have the perception that CentOS 5.X (particularly > Gnome) is a little less stable than CentOS 4.X or is it just me? I am not having any issues with CentOS 5 and Gnome ... I have been using it as my primary desktop since before the 5.0Beta stage. I would initially start out but looking at any 3rd party installed products. Also, if the hardware is the same, it might be something related to that motherboard chipset and centos-5 kernels. I would see if you have the latest BIOS for the hardware as there may be APIC/ACPI issues that can effect kernel, udev, hald, etc. I have zero issues here ... but I do NOT use yum-updated or any of its applets. Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080605/3cf0495b/attachment-0005.sig>