krisbee2000

The way I did it was to reinstall, but I didn't allow it to reformat the drive, and just when I was about to install and the first rpm was on its' way, I hit cancel, which then brought me to the grub install section, where I put grub on the partition drive (not MBR, where my old grub I wanted was).

It did! Thank you very much. The first time I did manual mirror selection, I guess I just got a bum mirror for me, so it didn't work (and I thought it just wouldn't work, which was incorrect). Thanks again! Kris

Oh, I should have made myself clearer, sorry... I kept 2006 on one partition, and installed fresh 2008.1 on another. I am not sharing home directories; 2006 uses krisbee, while 2008 uses krisbe2008... so in essence, they are seperate OS's... So, it isn't related to that issue. Treat it like a fresh install.

For some reason, no matter what I do with 2007.1 and 2008.1, I can't get the easy-urpmi to add the repos. Here is what I did manually [root@localhost krisbee2008]# urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2008.1.i586.list' mirror list not found Could not find a mirror from mirrorlist http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2008.1.i586.list [root@localhost krisbee2008]# [root@localhost krisbee2008]# urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/2008.1.i586.list' trying again with mirror ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/mandriva/cfg/2008.1/i586 and to prove there is no firewall problem, here are the pings: [krisbee2008@localhost ~]$ ping -c 3 plf.zarb.org PING ryu.zarb.org (212.85.153.228) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from easyurpmi.zarb.org (212.85.153.228): icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=170 ms 64 bytes from easyurpmi.zarb.org (212.85.153.228): icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=170 ms 64 bytes from easyurpmi.zarb.org (212.85.153.228): icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=171 ms --- ryu.zarb.org ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2000ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 170.373/171.003/171.820/0.770 ms [krisbee2008@localhost ~]$ ping -c 3 api.mandriva.com PING frontal2.mandriva.com (212.85.147.118) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from mandriva.com (212.85.147.118): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=159 ms 64 bytes from mandriva.com (212.85.147.118): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=158 ms 64 bytes from mandriva.com (212.85.147.118): icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=158 ms --- frontal2.mandriva.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2000ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 158.288/158.974/159.941/0.703 ms [krisbee2008@localhost ~]$ What am I doing wrong? I still use 2006, and would love to start to upgrade, but, if I can't get access to PLF, I can't do what I need to! Thanks in advance, Kris

This tip worked great... I thought I was losing my mind. I just set the 2nd grub for 2008 to have a timeout of 0 and it just boots fine. I didn't want to lose my grub from my 2006 install until I am sure that I am not going back, and that will take months of making sure!

No, this is from the command line (though I have tried from inside mcc as well)... no error happens in the terminal. By progress bar, if a connection is established, usually you will get a printout of the percentage downloaded of the index, how big, etc. None of that happens. It says add "main" (which is the first group I am trying to add), and then, nothing. NOTHING. 20 minutes, NOTHING!

No error... it just hangs... for 20 minutes or so before I give up. It doesn't have a progress bar like normal, and this happens whether I use a compressed or uncompressed index. But like I said, I can ftp to the site in an instant and find the index with the path I am given from easy-urpmi... And, I have tried ftp, rsync, or http mirrors, all without success. I have disabled the firewall in Mandriva, as well (no need for one, the router has a NAT Firewall). Also, just to be clear, I have had this problem in 2006, and it was related to ipv6, which I shut off in 2006 and everything worked with urpmi with that version... I have shut this off in 2008, and there still is an issue.

Adding a file blacklist_ipv6 to modprobe.d directory, and adding "blacklist ipv6" to that file fixed the problem... sort of. I could ping the servers now, but no matter what, I couldn't get urpmi to connect, even though I could see what was in those ftp directories using konqueror. IPV6 is definitely off, there is no entry in lsmod, so that module is not being loaded... So, I am stumped now as to what the urpmi problem is, and slowly losing patience with 2008.

I have followed this link and have added the information as they suggested, but somewhere ipv6 is being added after modprobe.conf... which is why I see it in lsmod....

I have tried three different things... adding the two alias commands in modprobe.conf that did the trick in 2006, " alias ipv6 off alias net-pf10 off", the Mandriva sanctioned idea of adding "install ipv6 /bin/true" to modprobe.conf, and then I tried adding to /etc/sysconfig/network "NETWORK_IPV6=no" When I run lsmod | grep ipv6, it still shows an entry, and I can't add my urpmi sources (pinging mandriva.cointech.net shows a correct ip address, but no return) I shut down the firewall that 2008 installed, shut down any other services that didn't seem necessary... and I just can't get this problem licked on my 2008 install. What else can I do? Thanks in advance, Kris [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

Ok, here is how it was solved. I did a full restore from a tar file... what happend was that /dev was restored from the earlier date, so the current day udev couldn't access the files correctly... Booted into Knoppix, went to the root hd, and deleted ALL BUT CONSOLE AND NULL from the /dev directory (actually, I copied and moved the old stuff out in case I needed it). Then, I deleted out the /tmp directories in root and in my home directory. This solved the problem.

Yup... looking in /dev, the /usb devices, and some others have the date of the backup, not the last reboot date... So, what can I safely delete through knoppix to get control back of my dev system? I think I can delete everything but /dev/console and /dev/null, but I am not sure...

Yes, I only made one backup using the command: tar --exclude=/home --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys -cvpf backup.tar /themountpoint_ where_ "/"_should_go onto my firewire drive... , then I did the same for just the home directory (to have two seperate backups), modified of course... to restore, I did tar xvpf backup.tar -C /the_place_where_things_should_go However, I am now thinking that the problem is that I shouldn't have restored /dev Is that correct? My old /dev might be the culprit? Is this automatically generated on boot? I have read somewhere that you should exculde /dev... then I read NO, include it. Other than that, the only thing I can think of is the read permissions might have been screwy....

I tried upgrading my 2006 system to 2007 and it didn't work... then I tried instaling 2007, and it didn't work well... so I wanted to go back to my old system, which I had tar'd up on my firewire drive. Well, when I rebooted, atd didn't work anymore (so I uninstalled and reinstalled) and neither did devfs... also my usb stick and firewire drive aren't visable... I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but it still failed... I wonder if there is some kind of permission error somewhere on the untarring that maybe messsed a thing up or two... here is some info from the syslogs where I searched for devfs Sep 30 19:34:19 localhost devfsd: Stopping devfsd daemon: succeeded Sep 30 19:34:19 localhost devfsd: Starting devfsd daemon: succeeded Sep 30 19:34:21 localhost devfsd: devfsd shutdown failed Sep 30 19:34:21 localhost devfsd: Stopping devfsd daemon: succeeded Sep 30 19:34:21 localhost devfsd: Starting devfsd daemon: succeeded Sep 30 19:58:38 localhost rpmdrake-remove[4297]: Removing package devfsd-1.3.25-40mdk.i586 Sep 30 19:58:44 localhost devfsd: devfsd shutdown failed Sep 30 19:58:44 localhost devfsd: Stopping devfsd daemon: succeeded Sep 30 19:58:46 localhost rpmdrake-remove[4297]: [RPM] devfsd-1.3.25-40mdk removed Sep 30 20:00:41 localhost rpmdrake[4345]: [RPM] devfsd-1.3.25-40mdk installed Sep 30 20:01:58 localhost msec: changed mode of /etc/rc.d/init.d/devfsd from 755 to 744 notice the last line... So, what is the deal? Why did this whole process ruin my weekend? I was literally on the computer for two days straight trying to make everything work, and when it didn't, luckily I had my backup (which took some work to restore from) My USB printer seems to not be working, either.. :( HELP!

Ah! the man himself. I want to thank you personally then (and my wife thanks you!). It was driving me crazy, and for the past few nights I would wake up out of my sleep thinking about what it could be, and that is a miserable thing! It is working fantastic, and it is great to be connected to the net properly now! Thanks again! Kris

All solved! alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off What I needed was the second line, which someone on the irc channel was nice enough to tell me. This solved all of my wonky problems, including the urpmi, bittorrent, and some other things. Now everything works like a charm. Thank you all so much for your help! Kris

And just to help, a little more detail... [krisbee@localhost etc]$ cat sysctl.conf # Kernel sysctl configuration file for Mandriva Linux # # For binary values, 0 is disabled, 1 is enabled. See sysctl(8) and # sysctl.conf(5) for more details. # Disables IP dynaddr net.ipv4.ip_dynaddr = 1 # Disable ECN net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 1 # Controls source route verification net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 # Controls the System Request debugging functionality of the kernel #kernel.sysrq = 0 # Controls whether core dumps will append the PID to the core filename. # Useful for debugging multi-threaded applications. kernel.core_uses_pid = 1 # If you set this variable to 1 then cd tray will close automatically when the # cd drive is being accessed. Setting this to 1 is not advised as it has been # known to cause problems when supermount is enabled. dev.cdrom.autoclose=0 # removed to fix some digital extraction problems # dev.cdrom.check_media=1 # to be able to eject via the device eject button (magicdev) dev.cdrom.lock=0 net.ipv4.icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses=0 net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter=0 net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts=0 net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all=0 net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians=0 kernel.sysrq=1 net.ipv4.tcp_default_win_scale=0

Things still aren't working right... I can't connect to any urpmi sites, and very few torrents... here is the output of my ifconfig: [root@localhost Torrents]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:4D:F0:95:70 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::218:4dff:fef0:9570/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1458 Metric:1 RX packets:122194 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:134409 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:136472884 (130.1 MiB) TX bytes:15546170 (14.8 MiB) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000 eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-11-06-00-00-00-C6-02-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:496 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:25 dropped:25 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:5981 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5981 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:365828 (357.2 KiB) TX bytes:365828 (357.2 KiB) I know something isn't set right, and it is very frustrating... please help! Should I have my firewall/nat server turned on in my dsl router or not... is there a setting there? I have it not blocking any ports... Why does eth1 always show up on boot and as a failure? Why does it show up at all? Thank you again in advance, Kris

Well, the thing I discovered yesterday was I think I am just having a run of bad luck with my tests, and that maybe everything is fine (except xchat)... Since mIRC works through wine, that would mean whatever my irc server issues are program related, not connection since its' going through the network established in linux. As for the urpmi sites I tried to go on to, I tried ireland, and it pinged fine, added those, and now my repositories are setup just fine (this was one of my original tests to try the connection; the repositories I used to have just didn't work, so I was worried my internet connection settings weren't right)... Bittorrent, the mandriva torrent did not work, but I grabbed linspire and knoppix, and they started to immediately download... so that would mean I just had some bad torrents for my original test, right? I will try your ktorrent idea and see what that does... the torrents I have been having trouble with always say the the torrent tracker timed out... I will also try a different linux irc client, and see what that does for me. Thanks for everyone's help so far... and if anyone has any more suggestions, keep 'em coming.... I still don't know why shutting down ipv6 didn't allow firefox to work (though I disabled ipv6 IN firefox to make firefox work)...

Oh, and I just tried something... and I don't know what to think... I loaded mirc using wine, and it connected to irc.prison.net with no problem. Xchat won't... What is with that? Can you give me a very popular bittorrent so I can double check that? I was getting the error: Unable to map a port using any service

That didn't seem to work, and actually stopped mozilla-firefox from working (but konqueror worked just great). I get no response from pinging irc.prison.net, or us.undernet.org... but fine with any http server (www.google.com, etc.) I tried bittorrent of mandriva 2007, and it says 0 people... how could that be? Something is definitely screwy... I went ahead and commented out the line, but here is my modprobe.conf [krisbee@localhost etc]$ cat modprobe.conf alias sound-slot-0 snd-ens1371 install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe uhci-hcd; /bin/true remove snd-ens1371 /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss; /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove snd-ens1371 install snd-ens1371 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-ens1371 && { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; } install scsi_hostadapter /sbin/modprobe usb-storage; /bin/true remove es1371 /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove es1371 install es1371 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install es1371 options kqemu major=0 options snd-ens1371 joystick_port=1 alias eth0 8139too alias eth1 eth1394 # alias net-pf-10 off There was an error on boot about eth1 not being available.. should I delete that one in mcc? Is there anything else you need to help me? Thanks in advance, Kris

I can work on its' settings via the html control panel. I have tried just disabling the nat/firewall setting entirely, and it didn't make a difference either way... The brand is:Paradyne However, since some sites work in Windows, but it doesn't seem to in linux, then I would assume the router/modem is fine, and it is a setting in linux somewhere... right?

I just upgraded my internet connection to DSL yesterday from dial-up. It is a 4 way router, with wireless. I connect using a hardline ethernet cable to my ethernet card. I have full web browser access, but other types of connections are sketchy... for example, irc.freenode.net works half of the time... and I can't get any efnet or undernet irc servers to work. Bittorrent was working for a moment, but then never again... but of course I might be searching for something that isn't legitimately available. If I log on to amsn, it always seems to work... so that seems alright. Does anyone know what is going on? The irc servers work fine in windows... and I don't have any firewall settings on my computer (that I am aware of). Thank you in advance, Kris

I found that shutting off the Hardware Cursor in my xorg.conf fixed some issues in other programs... maybe it will help you to. Under your video card device section, add Option "HWCursor" "false" See if that keeps your cursor in the program (it may not!)

Thank you so much for the help.. dodged a bullet there!