Back In the Studio

[billroper]

daisy_knotwise has taken Julie off shopping while Katie naps after her shopping expedition with me. I'm taking advantage of the opportunity to try to get the rebuilt studio computer up and running again. I've managed to get base versions of most of the software installed and am now downloading the (large!) updates.

The other problem that I'm having is that my mouse keeps freezing up. This is a bad thing, but I may have found the right thing to do to fix it with some Google searches about this motherboard. We'll see if changing those BIOS settings works...

Comments

[kizoku42.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you're having fun. I just upgraded my O/S to Fedora 10 yesterday. After a day of copying anime files to DVDs and backing up everything just in case. Then almost nothing worked. Overnight, the computer decided to download a ton of updates and now almost everything works. Go figure. Even stuff that didn't work before. :-)

It had me worried though. When one of the things that doesn't work is the web browser that you want to use to go out and do your troubleshooting.

[billroper]

Oh, we're getting the intermittent web browser failure on the new computer in the office upstairs. No one seems to be able to figure out why. *sigh*

And it takes out both IE and Google Chrome.

[kizoku42.livejournal.com]

One of the things that decided not to work is the Gramps genealogy program. Turns out that they fixed a bug by using an entirely different database system on the new version of Gramps. So I can't read all of the stuff I've already saved. The solution is to convert your files _before_ you upgrade, which, of course, I can't do. How about installing the old version of Gramps? Nope, it won't run on the new O/S. Installing and running the Berkely database conversion utilities (suggested on the Gramps web site) didn't work either. OK, I'll create a virtual machine using the Sun xVM package and load an old version of Fedora I have lying around. Nope, for some reason VirtualBox creates i586 virtual machines even if it's running on an x86-64 like mine. OK, download and burn Fedora 8 i386 and load _that_. This is working. Once I have my virtual machine, I can download an old version of Gramps, pass the files over on a thumb drive, create a backup file, pass it back on the thumb drive, and import it into the new version of Gramps. Maybe. The new version _does_ look cooler, but this is a lot to go through. Oh well. At least it seems to be working.