In this summary of LibreOffice on Linux Devices, Pardus 2011 gets a mention as the first major release to use LibreOffice as its default office suite.

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/LibreOffice-33-review/?kc=rss

Odd, I was able to do a google search for ESPN3 and click on the link and then get to the cricket reports without any problem. Maybe it was a temporary glitch either with the site or your ISP.

There are now separate 2011 and 2011-devel repository lists at http://packages.pardus.org.tr/. But so far nothing seems to have filtered through from the devel to the main -- in fact I've not seen any updates since the official release.

Mahmood: I was not saying that I had a solution to what you wanted to do, only that the problem had to be in the interaction of LVM & external drive rather than a general external drive issue.

FWIW: The partitions are all physical as that seems to be the current default behaviour and I was just doing a quick & dirty install to assist in chasing down a wireless network or keyboard bug.

And yes, the custom configuration does disable LVM (I didn't look closely enough to see if there's an option to do custom with LVM).

Given that you've reintalled firefox, and the fact that the problem isn't universal, I think the problem is somewhere else. Given the original error message, my next target would be glib. A useful command here could be:
(Or any other package you might suspect).

I've not tried LVM, but I have installed 2011 on an external hard drive using custom partitioning so if there is a problem it must be the combination of External+LVM, or be specific to certain hardware.

The procedure I followed (disk selection stuff only) was:

I was actually somewhat surprised that it found the Kubuntu boot options from /dev/sda & lists them as well (though I think that the machine has been upgraded through enough Kubuntu releases it may not have transitioned to grub2).
               

Konqueror was installed by default on my 64-bit install, and I've just installed chromium-browser and am using it to post this message.

The Pardus equivalent is "sudo pisi it". ("pisi help" lists the available commands).

As far as I know the Pardus devs don't go in for having multiple versions available.

I'd say the problem you're having is something that should be reported upstream (i.e. to the Firefox bug system) and then if it gets fixed there, request an update in the Pardus system -- however since they have released with a beta, I guess the plan is to update to the 4.0 release when it comes along.

Do you have any NFS mounts?

I have seen similar problems in the past on some Debian systems where the NFS server had gone away before the client shut down (since this was 4 or more years ago, I don't recall the precise details).

I see it with the nvidia173 (older cards) driver, but not with Nouveau. The effect is also present (on a different machine) with openchrome driver for VIA cards, so the problem may be nearer to the core.

Another very short but favourable one on Ostatic:
http://ostatic.com/blog/pardus-2011-independent-distro-releases-latest-and-greatest?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+ostatic+%28OStatic%29

The reviews of 2011 are starting to arrive:

One on "UnixMen":
http://www.unixmen.com/linux-tutorials/1467-pardus2011-a-linux-distro-that-needs-your-attention

Another possibility is wicd. I've used that extensively on laptops as older versions of the KDE network manager did not scan for ESSIDs. I can't quite remember where it is (I don't have a Pardus box to hand here) but I think the "system settings" tool has a chooser to let you pick which tool to use to manage network connections (one of the many nice little admin tools that are Pardus-specific).

I'm not sure if this is best described as a bug of a feature. It is however definitely not specific to Pardus -- I see the same thing on Kubuntu.

Essentially the automatically-generated profiles are not shown in the network manager's "Manage Connections" tool, only the user-defined ones. What would be useful is something like a "New from current" option to allow you to use the automatic profile as a starting point.

The best thing to try would be to put in a wishlist bug (I'm pretty sure I've seen a section for the forums in the bugzilla navigation).