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Mandrake 2006 [root@localhost daryl]# uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.12-12mdk #1 Fri Sep 9 18:15:22 CEST 2005 i686 AMD Duron unknown GNU/Linux [daryl@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.12-12mdk (apatard@n1.mandriva.com) (gcc version 4.0.1 (4.0.1-5mdk for Mandriva Linux release 2006.0)) #1 Fri Sep 9 18:15:22 CEST 2005 I installed my kernel sourcecode from my cd (kernel-source-2.6-2.6.12-12mdk.i586). 'Urpmi binutils' shows that binutils is already installed. At this point I should be able to install IA32 Nvidia driver. su init 3 Next I cd to /Downloads where I have my Nvidia driver, and then... chmod NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run I am presented with an agreement which I accept and then I get this message... There appears to be a driver already installed. This driver will be deleted. I press OK Next message... No precompiled kernel. Would you like installer to download kernel interface from NVidia. I click yes and thats as far as it goes. Freeze-up. I notice that even though I installed the sourcecode as seen above, when I do a urpmi kernel-source, urpmi begins downloading from a mirror. Where am I going wrong? [moved from Software by spinynorman]

I almost accomplished the installation of IA32 driver last night but will definately get it tonight. Question... Why is it nessessary to have the kernel source installed in order to setup the IA32 driver? It says most setups already have it but I do not, so I must install it. Also, when doing a 'urpmi kernel-source' it gives me an option of choosing one of three packages. Which do I choose?

It was a completelly new install.

My graphics card supports opengl. How do I know if its enabled?

Now that I'm on madriva 2006 I just dowbwnloaded Celestia again. Same result...'Installation failure'. But this time when I tried to start celestia it actually did start. But then I try to maximize the screen and my session closes down and a new session starts. So I tried to drag the screnn bigger and that worked. So what could be happening now? I'm not complaining cause, like I said, it works so far. Just wondering. I'll try using it after work to see if all is well.

Great PING response. Thanks for the info.

I've heard about 'ping' off and on for years. But I never learned what it is. I have figured out that its a signal sent to a server but what for and how I don't know. Please explain.

I just installed Mandriva 2006 LE. When configuring Kmail, either by opening Kmail or Kontact, the progam seems to freeze up when I click on the button to 'APPLY' the POP and SMTP configurations. So I click the 'X' to close the program, the program closes, after a long pause, and needless to say, I have not successfully configured the mail. When I say that it freezes I mean that the 'APPLY' button remains in the 'clicked' position and nothing happens when I click on anything else.

I'm confused about this 'club' business. I have NO interest in joining a club and paying to use Linux. Can I or can I not have as good a system with 10.2 or 2006 as I had (for a while) with 10.1? In other words, does mandriva 10.2 and 2006 have everything I need, freely available to me? Are the 'club benifits' special things that I don't need, things that powerusers would want as toys, or are they things I will require?

> Why do you recommend 2005LE when 2006 is newer?

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>Missing packages means you must have either misconfigured urpmi, I have mandrake 10.1, therefore I configure urpmi with 10.1 community, i586 and urpmi. I check 'show specific sources and 'use compressed index'. >What happens if you pick up another Mandriva mirror from easyurpmi.zarb.org and re-tune your repos? I have used differant mirrors. >BTW reinstalling for things like that is a gross mistake. My life doesn't depend on my pc yet and my /home is backed up. Reinstalling may be unnessessary, but if I don't have a better idea the worst that can happen is that I get better at reinstalling.

I was doing fine for a while and then as seen from some of my recent posts I am having a lot of trouble installing packages. I think I'm downloading ok but my installs give 'installation errors' accompanied by huge lists of missing packages. I have reinstalled system and it doesn't help. I wanted to install drakxtools before and had trouble but then I finally got it to load and install. Don't remember what I did differant. Now I am having the same trouble with it again as well as other packages. I have noticed that when I go to MCC>configure>software and click 'install' or uninstall it takes about a minute for the package list to come up. It did't used to take that long a few week ago. Could this indicate a problem?

Mandrake 10.1. Is the proceedure that you unmount your partitions, make your backups using partimage from terminal and then remount your partitions from terminal? Using partimage, when reinstalling the whole setup from a backup, is there any configuring required or do you reinstall from backup and it is ready to go? What is it called when you have a copy that boots (is ready to run when you restore) as opposed to a copy that must be configured?

Couldn't decide what forum this goes in so if I did it wrong just yell at me ;-) I want to back up my individual partitions...home, usr, var and mount point. 1) Is mount point what we call the partition or directory that contains the kernal? For system backups I created /homebu, /usrbu, /varbu and /mountpointbu. 2) Is this what I wanted to do or should I creat one big backup partition to save the whole kit n' kaboodle in, or is there another better way? These backup partitions are displayed along with the directories in my file tree. Looks kind of cluttered. 3) Is file tree what we call the list of directories, just like in that other evil operating system? 4) Should these partitions be in the file tree or can they be put somewhere else out of view? 5) Either way, they should be unmounted so they cannot be accidently accessed, right?

Just found another clue. I downloaded urpmi bibletime. It didn't install. I reinstalled / and /usr. Tried to install celestia again. Same results. Same with bibletime. Same with science. Same with mandriva-command-line-en-doc. So... 1) I have a problem that is causing my download process and/or my install process to glitch. 2) It is not in the kernal (proper terminology?) and not in /usr, since they were reinstalled. 3) I noticed in mandriva-command-line, were the download status bar shows 2 numbers (for example- 2/4) refering to the packages being installed, that it showed all the way up to 22/4. Now thats a glitch!! 4) After the install attempt it said there was a installation problem. Any ideas?

Well, I know how to clear my cache but that didn't help. I redownloaded celestia and got the message that there was a problem during installation. Running celestia (in terminal) gets me a splash screen and then another window comes up with some celestia option buttons at the top and the rest of the screen is empty and transparant. The terminal window shows the following... [root@localhost daryl]# celestia Creating link /root/.kde/socket-localhost. Created link from "/root/.kde/socket-localhost" to "/tmp/ksocket-root" /usr/X11R6/bin/iceauth: creating new authority file /root/.ICEauthority QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used Creating link /root/.kde/tmp-localhost. Created link from "/root/.kde/tmp-localhost" to "/tmp/kde-root" QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used kbuildsycoca running... Creating link /root/.kde/cache-localhost. Created link from "/root/.kde/cache-localhost" to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root" Reusing existing ksycoca kbuildsycoca: WARNING: Property 'X-KDE-Weight' is defined multiple times (KOfficeFilter) Invalid entry (missing '=') at /tmp/kde-root/kconf_updateRYycqc.tmp:1 Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". nStars: 112524 celestia: WARNING: Can't open /root/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml When I close the celestia window the terminal displays this... [root@localhost daryl]# KCrash: Application 'celestia' crashing... And the the crash handler window displays the message in my earlier post.

Good morning Arctic (4:34 am here). Thanks for your quick reply. You've been very helpful to me lately. I ran urpmi --clean cache and it appears that it acceessd a list of differant caches and did them all. Is that what happened? As for running it from terminal next time, thats what I did before. Not to sound stupid but how else would I have tried to run it? Ok, gonna try again.

I downloadeed Celestia in terminal with 'urpmi celestia'. I never saw it install (which seems odd) but it must have installed because when I typed 'celestia' the splash screen came up, but then it didn't do any more. So I then used 'urpme celestia' to remove the package. Next I opened MCC>software management>install>celestia. It downloaded and I found it in var>cache>urpmi>partial. Doesn't the fact that it was in'partial' mean it never finished downloading? I clicked on it anyway and it asked if I wanted to install it. I said yes but nothing happened. So, whats my next step? I hope theres a next step I can take. By the way, I went to var>cache>urpmi>partial and deleted celestia and then I opened a terminal as root and did 'locate celestia' and it said it was still in 'partial'.

I did not have trouble with the download except that I never saw a message that said it was installing. If I redownload how do I select a differant mirror? The site it downloaded from is not the same as the sites chosen on the easy urpmi web page for my sources downloads. After I downloaded celestia the first time and it didn't work, I deleted my sources, chose a differant mirror and reinstalled my sources. However the mirror (ftp://helios.dii.utk.edu/pub/linux/Mandra...2-1mdk.i586.rpm) for the celestia did not change when I redownloaded it.

PART 1 I downloaded celestia using 'urpmi celestia'. When it got finished this is the last thing displayed on my screen... ftp://helios.dii.utk.edu/pub/linux/Mandra...2-1mdk.i586.rpm. I don't know if the pc is still working or what. I never saw anything about the package being installed. I located clestia at... /var/cache/urpmi/partial/celestia-1.3.2-1mdk.i586.rpm. When I did a urpmi /var/cache/urpmi/partial/celestia-1.3.2-1mdk.i586.rpm I got this message... unable to access rpm file [celestia-1.3.2-1mdk.i586.rpm] error registering local packages. What to do? Do I need to delete celestia and reinstall using MCC? PART 2 AFTER RESTARTING SYSTEM..... I couldn't start celestia after it was downloaded (and I never saw it being installed) but I shut my system down and restared and then tried again to start celestia. It displayed a splash screen and the stopped. Then I got this message... KCrash: Application 'celestia' crashing... The crash handler displays this... (no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 1096984736 (LWP 4426)] (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...0xffffe410 in ?? () #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () #1 0xbfffe86c in ?? () #2 0x00000000 in ?? () #3 0x00000000 in ?? () #4 0x414db2b3 in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 #5 0x4074aece in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #6 <signal handler called> #7 0x08083996 in QGList::count () #8 0x08218e30 in ?? () #9 0x0813c1b1 in typeinfo name for QGList () #10 0x00000000 in ?? () #11 0x00000001 in ?? () #12 0x00000000 in ?? () #13 0x00000000 in ?? () #14 0x00000067 in ?? () #15 0x00000006 in ?? () #16 0x00000000 in ?? () #17 0x405e8318 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.4 #18 0x081fb2e8 in ?? () #19 0xbfffebc0 in ?? () #20 0x0821dc60 in ?? () #21 0x4000ab80 in _dl_runtime_resolve () at dl-runtime.c:196 #22 0x404f72b7 in KMainWindow::closeEvent () from /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.4 #23 0x40b43af2 in QWidget::event () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #24 0x081fb2e8 in ?? () #25 0xbfffef70 in ?? () #26 0x00ffef70 in ?? () #27 0x40bafbc0 in QWidgetResizeHandler::eventFilter () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #28 0x088c2468 in ?? () #29 0x00000003 in ?? () #30 0x9f030000 in ?? () #31 0x402cdc3f in KFilePermissionsPropsPlugin::KFilePermissionsPropsPlugin () from /usr/lib/libkio.so.4 Does celestia have issues that make it non-usable for linux beginners?

Yes, in winblows it always cut off after so many minutes of inactivity. I have access to KPPP>configure and MCC>configure but I see nothing that I recognize as a modem disconnect. I see a modem time out but I think thats for waiting for a connection.

I want to do a 2 hr download using urpmi. Don't want phone line tied up longer than nessessary. I'm going to bed while it downloads. I want the modem to disconnect after the download is finished in case someone needs to call me. I'm using wget as a download manager. I didn't recognize anything in the --help menu.

Woops! I had too many /s at the beginning of my /dev/cdrom line. Its fixed now. So, I just copied my home directory to a cd again. I then took the cd out and inserted a blank cd. When K3b started it showed my home directory, just like before. Well, I gotta go to work. I'll study on this later on.