Mhn

One thing I noticed, though, is that just before it started to download, it printed: "...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with one".

The first thing I would try is

urpmi --auto-update --wget

to tell urpmi to use wget instead of curl to download the packages.

If that don't work I suggest you try using another mirror (using easy-urpmi or similar).

I reran it. I reran it not less than four times.

 

Every time, after the OS checks if all the databases are updated (they are), I am asked if I want to install 1157 packages (2557 MB, much better). After choosing Yes I am asked to chose a kernel version (one out of forty), afterwards I am asked if it's ok to remove five packages (I said yes), and then something weird happens: I get hundreds of lines being thrown to the screen in a split of a second, as if all the packages are already installed. Then I am being notified politely that "you may want to update your databases" or something similar, and that's it. After the reboot I still get the 2007.0 version.

 

Does anyone know what did I do wrong?

What does the "hundreds of lines" tell you?

Maybe run a

urpmi --clean

and then try again.

Which kind of graphics does it have? ATI, nvidia, intel?

No idea at this point what's wrong on my side, but thank you very much for the help.

Do you get any error message?

Hi Mhn: This is interesting: It must be then something wrong with my mplayer. I am using the mplayer from svn that I just compiled an hour ago, and it all looked OK during compilation.

 

Would you tell me what mplayer are you using (version)?

Also, have you installed all necessary codecs? You can do this by installing the package win32-codecs that is in the plf-repository.

it works fine in mplayer for me

# urpmi.addmedia --help
 [...]
 --proxy		- use specified HTTP proxy, the port number is assumed
			   to be 1080 by default (format is <proxyhost[:port]>).
 --proxy-user   - specify user and password to use for proxy
			   authentication (format is <user:password>).
 [...]

I tried the link in mplayer and it works fine (with sound).

I presume you mean:

rpm -ql rekall-debug

The guy even said that one particular brand, LaCie, is "guaranteed, 100% not to work in Linux".

sysv-rc-conf do I use in debian. (text-based)

It said 'all packages already loaded' and did absolutlely nothing.

rpm -qa | grep kdebase

give you?

Hi and welcome aboard.

Here you have some basic info on how to prepare for installing software in Mandriva.

After you have done what it says on that page use 'Install software packages' found in the Mandriva Control Center to search for and install apache.

Thanks for the suggestion. It did'nt work though.

What didn't work? Do you get any error-message when installing or you mean you don't get to kdm?

It only works for me if I disable page-styles, otherwise I can't access the dropdown-lists for some reason.

I still need to do the actual check for updates, right?

KDE Control Center -> Regional & Accessibility -> Keyboard Shortcuts

Search for "Walk Through Desktop List".

A quick search on "msec mandriva" gives:

http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/KB/SecureSmsec

http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/KB/SecureSmsec2

On the ifw problem, it can be that the config-files you used was referring to that package (maybe some 'use_ifw = yes' or similar).

Went through each service shown in MCC, but can't find anything that should be kicking off beagled and beagled-helper. It is a nuisance to have to kill them each time I bring up the system.

How did you uninstall the program?

When the files is in that folder it seems that you somehow have moved them thrash (as root).

why do you run it as root? could be because of that...

The cntr-alt-delete sequence is calling up a GUI,same as right clicking,log out.

I have to change that.

In KDE that can be changed in the control center.

System>system menu's?

I have Mandriva Free, so the menu can be a little different, but by running kcontrol from a terminal you will start the control center. Then go to Regional & Accessibility -> Keyboard shortcuts where you search for 'log out'. Change that to none or something else.

Then go to Input Actions also under Regional & Accessibility and make a new action (Keyboard shortcut -> Command/URL (simple)).

I haven't tried this myself, so it may or may not work, but hopefully it will.

The cntr-alt-delete sequence is calling up a GUI,same as right clicking,log out.

I have to change that.

happened for me too, but today when I updated I got opera 9.20 which fixed it...

$ su
Password:
# urpmi  alsaconf alsa-utils alsa-plugins

This command installs the packages (programs) alsaconf alsa-utils alsa-plugins.

(When using su -c I think the command has to be in the users path.)