hi,
i've hosed my setup tryiing to upgrade kernel. now i cant use the software module in MCC. i tried urpmi.removemedia -a and readded repo's but still when i click on anything in software it exits w/o screen appearing. I have the mde drakconf module installed. any idea's howto get Software working again w/o reinstall???
thanx

Try launch it from the command line and post the error messages. The software installer's name is rpmdrake.

What kernel are you running? If it's one you compiled yourself, you'll need to use a Mandriva kernel, because mcc and a lot of it's apps stop working when use compile your own.

If not, disregard what I just said

# rpmdrake
can not find function c::bind_textdomain_codeset
c::AUTOLOAD() called from /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/rpmdrake.pm:91
(eval)() called from /usr/sbin/rpmdrake:50
main::BEGIN() called from /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/rpmdrake.pm:0
(eval)() called from /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/rpmdrake.pm:0
Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/rpmdrake line 50.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/rpmdrake line 50.

uname -r
2.6.17-1mdk
from the mde repo's.

a little backround. I was trying to update libdbus from mde repo and that was causing a cups error so I went to revert back to stock libdbus and it removed a whole bunch of packages that i thought would be reinstalled when i reinstalled stock libdbus. that's when MCC disappeared altogether. I've been able to reinstall most of drakx but not software. I assume i must have some kind of mismatch between mde packages & stock mdk packages....

I'll move this post to the workbench forums since it's regarding a thac/mde repository. They'll then be able to see why and help you fix it.

This is the best forum to post into for special rpm's because it's non-standard Mandriva stuff.

In my experience you need to update rpmdrake to the MDE version and the problem is solved.

just for record adding rpmdrake package back solved problem.thanx everyone for responses...