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Nothingness…

Posted by Chief Experimenter in Journal at 12:50 pm on December 17, 2006.

…is about what I achieved this week. My beautiful, shiny Ubuntu install (complete with AIGLX and Beryl 3D niceness) is currently resembling the raggedy old laptop it resides on, after XFS failed to live up to it’s reputation of being robust in the face of crashes and unplanned power-offs (which happened during my attempts to get that 3D desktop working).

I now have a text-based login, because GDM goes into cyclic restart (but I can start X windows just fine once I log in; go figure…), my USB key and iPod don’t show up in /dev when I plug them in (but the USB hard drive I use as backup does work, having somehow obtained a static device node), and even if they did show up, the gnome-volume-manager refuses to start. forcing me to manually pmount things. Pffft.

Yet, crippled and b0rken as it now is, Linux is still working better than the XP box I use in work. Sadly I have no time to troubleshoot and fix the thing like a proper geek should, so I’ll likely just reinstall and use it as an opportunity to lose some old cruft, simplify my horrible, badly considered partitioning, reclaim the long-unused Windows partition, and switch to ext3 for the filesystem.

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