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Hi everybody! I've noticed, that after using my computer (Mandrake 10.1) for some time (1 or 2 hours), my system becomes very slow. It does not depend on what programs I'm using (for example, it happened working with DBDesigner and also with Anjuta). I'm running Mandrake using vmware, under winXP, but I use it within its own partition (without windows and vmware) too. When the system slows down, I can see that the hard disk R/W Led is turned on all the time. I supose this is because its swaping (so, i concluded the main problem is the RAM memory). Googling, i found in a gentoo forum somebody that has the same problem, and he says that linux makes disk caches that take a lot of RAM. I want to know if there's a way to solve this... Thanks a lot!! [moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman]

Maybe I choosed LE 2005 for mistake, Im not 100% sure... and now its to late to know, i have already reinstalled!! Thanks for your reply, i will set up easy urpmi now...

Hi, im using mandrakelinux 10.1 since 1 month, and im having problems when installing soft... I configured the mediums where mandrake should search for packages in the easy urpmi page, following the wizard and selecting: For "Core Distributions", i checked updates and contrib. For "Other packages" i checked source JPackage and source plf Free. I also checked the option to use compressed indexes. Im not sure what jpackage and plf free is, the only thing is that once i didn't checked j package, and there where some unsatisfied dependencies when installing... First I installed Anjuta 1.2.2... what i did is simple, i searched "anjuta" in the "Install software" program (I think its name is drakrpm), and checked anjuta... lots of libraries and programs where checked too, so I downloaded approximately 150 MB, and installed it... it installed ok, i opened it, and it failed when compiling because there was no autoconf>2.5 .... y searched and find that my autoconf version was 2.59... In addition, a little surprise was left by the installation... i dont know why, but after that, all my type associations for gnome where lost, i couldnt open even a .txt file, and I couldnt associate them back... After that, i resigned anjuta (i never used it before, dont know if its good or not), and tryied to install KDevelop. (I'm a programmer, and need to stop installing things and begin to work quikly!!). Im not sure, i think it comes with mandriva, but i forgot to install it in the installation. I did the same thing, with the install software app, I searched kdevelop, and 500 MB of dependencies where found... after installing, i had more surprises!!! (these where worse) First, I lost my entire Application Menu. Then I tryied to run the "remove software" program, and it failed. From the console, when running "urpmi", i got a "command not found" message, and after urpmq, i got about 10 lines of errors, and it didnt work. I executed drakrpm from the console, and i receive a segmentation fault error... And I have KDE 3.3 now (the version which comes with mandrake10.1 is 3.2).. So, i know that after a day (and night) googling and asking, maybe I can fix the problem (i think its with perl), but the main problem will still be there... Im a bit disappointed, im installing things all the time, and i cannot enjoy anything of mandrake... Of course, that I am doing something bad, but dont know what... I will reinstall mandrake now, but please help me to find the problem... why does every installation bring problems? Thanks for reading all this!!

I have no /usr/share/applications/defaults.list I will try to manually write it... thanks

Hi all! Im having this problem: when I try to open a file (JPEG, MP3, RPM,...) using nautilus, it displays a message saying that there is not associated application with that extension in Gnome. I dont understand why this happens, this was working fine... Does anybody know something about this problem??? I googled and searched this forum but nothing :( Thanks!!

I finally found someone with my same problem in this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/308474

I solved it! :D It has nothing to do with net configuration or DNS... I downloaded these libs: - libnspr4-1.0.2-6 - libnss3-1.0.2-6 installed them, restarted firefox and done...!! Thanks for your replies

I ve already tried :(:(

This is my /etc/resolv.conf file... nameserver 200.49.156.3 nameserver 200.49.159.69 nameserver 200.49.156.4 nameserver 24.232.0.69 Those ips where given by my ISP

Thanks for your reply... I made a "ping www.yahoo.com" and It worked ok... I also opened the dhclient-eth1.leases file and it has the following content: lease { interface "eth1"; fixed-address 24.232.80.68; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option dhcp-lease-time 12924; option routers 24.232.80.1; option dhcp-message-type 5; option dhcp-server-identifier 24.232.0.69; option domain-name-servers 200.49.156.3,200.49.159.69,200.49.156.4,24.232.0.69; option dhcp-renewal-time 6462; option dhcp-rebinding-time 11308; option broadcast-address 255.255.255.255; option host-name "pentium4"; renew 5 2005/6/3 10:00:38; rebind 5 2005/6/3 11:29:29; expire 5 2005/6/3 11:56:25; } Now I think its not a net configuration problem, but firefoxs..

Hi ! I m having trouble when browsing with firefox... it shows me this message: "www.***.com could not be found. Please check the name and try again". The curious thing is that Konqueror works ok, and Mozilla (which I uninstalled before installing firefox) too... If I enter an IP address instead of the site name, i have no problems, so i think its the DNS config that is wrong... Thanks for any help!!