Upgrade—With Force!
For some time now, I have been getting singnal 11, sgisev crashes in KDE. It mainly happed when I closed a window. It even happened when I closed Konqueror while in gnome, which didn’t matter, because I use firefox anyway. I finally decided to update KDE. They sure make the update annoying enough. There are many different files for the different packages. I didn’t feel like sorting through them and deciding which ones to get, so I just opened up a graphical FTP client(can’t remember when I last used a graphical one.) and queued them all. It was only 355 MB, so that was no problem. The annoying part came when It was time to install. Because of dependencies, there are many files that need to be installed in a specific order, unless the dependencies are ignored. All of the things that were giving me dependencies issues were optional anyway, so I moved them to an alternate directory and installed the base stuff.(rpm -i –force *) I finally came to the comclusion that They wouldn’t give me all of that stuff without taking care of the dependencies, so I tried installing the other stuff without a dependency check(rpm -i –force –nodeps *) I recieved no error messages and when that was complete, I ran a dependency check on all of the files and it still failed, but nothing is going wrong yet… so now I am somewhat completely updated to KDE 3.2.3 (from 3.2.0..I think) I have had no SigSev crashes since! yippee!
I finally got kayaking today! Sorry Sara, the rest of my family came, so I couldnt take you along :(. Although it was very cold today, the water remained very warm, so I jumped out of my kayak and swam some laps :). It was a lot warmer in the water than in the air. I am still working on that statistics program, it is proving to be quite challenging, partially because of what I used as delimiter. (\n)….It gives me an error message in one particular if statement…but none of the others. It is quite annoying.