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Sorry I didn't read your first post correctly. Yes you do have a tmp directory in your home directory. Ignore that one though. Tux made the reply whilst I was still typing. As he says DO NOT DELETE the first tmp folder but follow the instructions that Tux has given you. It's getting late for me as well.

When you have booted up into failsafe you do not need to cd into /tmp. A quicker way would be to type the following rm -Rf /tmp this will remove the folder and all its contents. You will then need to create the folder again by typing mkdir tmp and you should then be able to login as normal after a restart. Ideally you need to find out why the folder is getting full, but that's another story. Let's see if we can get you logged in first.

Gold star Dimitris. Thank you. I'm using vlc as I already had it installed. Solved

It's been a while since I actually wanted to listen to some music whilst programming and things so I have forgotten howto have a cd play automatically when I insert one. In fact I have forgotten how to automatically mount one. Will some kind person help me please. I'm actually using kde4 again. Thank You in Advance.

This statement is true without a doubt, however, how many Linux users (including myself) use a strong root password?The question of open source security is raised from time to time and I would say that in my experience it is no more secure than Windows. The difference being that if rouge code was introduced it would quickly be found and rectified. There is no 'Registry' in which to hide such code. As for say a web page installing a trojan, well one would know as usually for a program to be installed the root password needs to be supplied and so the dialog box would pop up and ask for it. There are many, many arguments to this subject so I will leave it there and let some others add their views and experience.

Thank you both YinYeti and Greg2 I have now signed.

Unfortunately I am not bilingual so is there a translation of the page available? I would hate to put my foot in it and place a wrong vote or something.

Before settling with Mandriva I did try a couple of other distros which at the time were just as challenging as I had never installed Linux. That was way back with Mandrake 10 I think. However I found the most user friendly in terms of what you suggest was and still is Mandriva 2008.1. That is going to take some beating. This of course is just my opinion. :D

What about kde 3.5 as an alternative for as long as it's around. I have it running with 2009.0 and it's stable.

Will please you post the output of the command ifconfig without any eth0 at the end of the command? You might also want to check that your network card is listed in the detected hardware using mcc.

To save any confusion paste the output of the following konsole commands su root[enter] password[your root password][enter] ifconfig into a reply.

What output do you get from ifconfig eth0 when issued as root in a console.

My point exactly. I do NOT blame Mandriva (yet). Myself and I think everyone who uses Mandriva was under the impression that the KDE version shipped with Mandriva was stable. But on reading the article linked to by Isadora the release was NOT stable and still in beta.

Well this really is a shock to the system (mine). Truly sorry to hear your talents and dedication are being rewarded like this. In my opinion the ceo should be the one to be leaving. All the best for the future and if Mandriva should survive I hope you will keep taking a look in here.

A very interesting read Isadora. The whole feature spells out that KDE 4.1 that was shipped with Mandriva 2009.0 was in fact a beta test version and should not have been taken as a finished product as most of us were led to believe including AdamW. Had Adam known this I don't think it would have been included in the ISO for 2009.0 and the kde crew could have saved a lot of bad feeling among us all.

I've always typed just su in the console since first installing Mandrake 10.0 and still do today. :unsure: I'll take that back. To launch say kwrite as root Yes I now have to put a - after the su. Never had to do before. :blush:

Kde3 may not be maintained in the future but it will still be here for a while I think. Certainly long enough for a stable and worthy version of 4 to be come available. I'm sorry to say but the kde4 release has done nothing for Mandriva. I have just re-installed 2008.1 so that I have a workable system.

I'm with John on kde4, uninstall as much as you can and install kde 3.5. Of course you need to make sure you have all your repos set up or you won't have a lot of the 3.5 apps. After having done that myself it's like running 2008.1 again. So if you want a good solid system re-install 2008.1 and you won't go far wrong.

Astounding. It's never too late for tips like that. Many thanks

Just glad you got it fixed.

Good morning, well it is here. I cannot answer your questions directly, but, what you could do to be able paste your log for us is :- When in safe mode make a copy of your log so it won't get changed then paste that copy on here for us. NOT all of it, just any interesting bits. :) Maybe we could find something that way. Also a copy of your xorg.conf may help as well. X always names displays as crt even if it's a flat screen. I suppose that there is no way of telling unless ti's entered manually.

Are you running a 64bit processor?

OK try selecting your card again in mcc. It should tell you there is a propriety driver and ask you to install it. If it does so install it. Other than that I am unable to help as I don't have that particular card to try with. Sorry that suggestion is rather stupid as you don't have the gui to use.

I'm just trying to get my head round this a bit, so when you say your screen looks like it's on standby, does it have a flashing cursor in the top left corner?

Sorry I was at cross purposes with the two posts. You need the devel package for the current kernel that you are running on the nvidia computer. Install the package the corresponds to the output of 'uname -r' That should fixit.