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http://wiki.mandrivausers.org/index.php/Checking_ISOs md5summer is recommended but i never used it..... those boot options didnt work?

theme: domino light grey icons: snowish 1.3 (with some mods) beryl: my own theme

did you check the md5 of your burn? anyway select failsafe and add noapic and acpi=off to the end of your boot parameters (press esc and then you come into a mode where you can edit your boot lines) the line should look a bit like this: kernel (hd1,2)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=/dev/hda3 PROFILE=default splash=silent vga=794 noapic acpi=off

but you said you can choose between kde or gnome?

Welcome to MUB :D from your description I guess you boot to some sort of greeter where you have to give your account and password to login and choose between gnome/kde and failsafe?

you can start the gui of smart with smart --gui as root (there also a start menu entry somewhere...) amd select the mandriva version of kdebase, you could then accept a downgrade or you could try to get mde working again but wait a few hours till their repos settle again....

use the --ignore-locks locks flag ie smart install --ignore-locks kdebase kdebase-common kdebase-kdm

don't what processor you have but big upgrades can take few minutes on my p4 2.4 Ghz, it might also be possible that mde have disabled the use of the python jit compiler making smart even slower but makes it accept ctrl+c to stop the program (see the smart wiki pages) or you have very little memory:

Thats because probably you didnt correctly set up your urpmi repositories, urpmi and smart repositories are set up separatedly . Did you use smart like MDE recommended? If so so do: smart install kdebase kdebase-common kdebase-kdm and you should be back again if you really need a graphical enviroment you could install xfce with smart install task-xfce and then start it with startxfce4 (if kdm or gdm don't work) and then fix kde from xfce

You need to be root, type su and then your root password first.... btw it is XFdrake not xfdrake, linux is case sensitive

Most likely the update didnt complete because not everything was uploaded, did you use smart and enable all repositories like plf and contrib? Possible something also went wrong with updating your videodriver from a command line run: smart update smart upgrade and see what happens.... if you cannot even get into icewm run XFdrake and select the open source (non propietary driver)

core.XXXX files you can safely remove, they are files left by crashes, I guess you can safely remove those rpms too, you could always redownload them

I am using cooker right now and when the nvidia driver install fails mandriva nowautomatically switches to nv. Kernel never used to be updated but since 2007.0 there are these kernel-latest packages (which now also automatically install the source package) which make upgrading a lot easier. btw: installed upgraded my system like this 10.2rc2->2006->cooker->2007.0->cooker-2007.1->cooker, i know just a little bit about linux, an avarage user and the upgrade had been pretty smooth, all in all, well I did have some X problems like your but not so anymore recently, since it switches to nv....

strange thing I don't even have these locales installed, just en.....

I am also in need of some space, it is safe to delete the locales which I don't need from /usr/share/locale/ there a lot of them and they take up 234MB

nope but maybe she can clarify https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...st&p=315343

Nice interview but too bad he didnt more emphasize that pclinuxos 2007 is mostly mandriva 2007.0 (at least according to chris:b/anna), pclos has a very good rep, everybody raving about it and the pclos tools (which are of course the mdv tools) :(

Well you want to remove KDE but Konqueror has a very handy tool, called filesize view which allows you to see the size of all directories and files graphically. Last week I had a similar problem btw, I found /tmp was filled up with gigabytes of flash files!

no not really anymore, just curious... B)

nasty bugger, nod32 didnt even recognise it

I seriously don' t understand why anyone would go through all this trouble when all you need to do is go to rpmdrake and install java or urpmi java-1.6.0 from a console (as root) and you are done (and maybe set up repos if it hasnt been done, automagically, yet http://www.mandrivausers.org/easyurpmi/index.php ...)

I was using feisty, don' t know if they have wine running at startup :s what do you mean, they are malware of course? But I really wonder what this explorer.exe process was doing, it was taking up *a lot* of cpu

I also did and then ctrl+c $ wine ./photo8.com and that process was still running also..

I was on msn, when I got an obvious message from someone with a worm, curious as I am and thinking I nothing could really happen in linux, I ran visited the link to see what would happen: _http://www.hothotpics.com/photo8.php Anyway I ran the processes which it tries to install (even from console) but they would die with an error: Desktop$ wine "./doc.exe" wine: could not load L"Z:\\home\\ffi\\Desktop\\doc.exe": Bad EXE format for ~/Desktop$ wine "./mon.exe" wine: could not load L"Z:\\home\\ffi\\Desktop\\mon.exe": Bad EXE format for I killed wineserver but then later a few hours later I noticed a process c:/windows/explorer.exe going crazy in the taskmanager, anyway I deleted the .wine dir, should I worry my system has been comprised or any private data leaked?

I think you should look for a similar file in /root and delete it (and maybe .Xauthority too).