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The SATA drives are all on the 4 port controller, if I remember correctly. The Marvell one deals with my IDE DVD/CD-ROM drives and is a non-issue. I'll try the kernel upgrade and see if that fixes the issue. If it doesn't, I'll have to stop using Linux until I find a solution. :(

Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 6 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200 [GTX260-216] (rev a1) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1e Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0) 03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6121 SATA II Controller (rev b2) 05:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 70) I was going to run SpinRite on the drive but hadn't yet. I'll run badblocks tomorrow.

I just built a new system and have been using Mandriva (2009.1 Spring 64-bit) on it for about two or three months. About a month ago I started getting I/O errors across the board. I immediately rebooted into Windows and checked the drive. No problems with it and I spent the next week in Windows because I didn't have the time to go back and diagnose the issue in Linux. It seems to happen over time or whenever I'm doing intense downloading with BitTorrent. I can't shut down the system from within KDE when they happen and reboots result in having to run fsck manually (Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan were found). I can't use the system when the I/O errors start appearing, either. I have no problems whatsoever with the drives in Windows and checking the system logs within Windows reveal no errors. Here's what I'm seeing within the logs in Linux: Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: status: { DRDY } Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:04 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SRST failed (errno=-16) Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link online but device misclassified, retrying Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:14 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SRST failed (errno=-16) Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link online but device misclassified, retrying Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:24 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Oct 5 13:37:30 localhost klogd: npviewer.bin[13854]: segfault at f6a45470 ip 00000000f6a45470 sp 00000000e9e1803c error 14 Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SRST failed (errno=-16) Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link online but device misclassified, retrying Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.01: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SRST failed (errno=-16) Oct 5 13:37:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Oct 5 13:37:58 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) Oct 5 13:37:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link online but device misclassified, device detection might fail Oct 5 13:37:59 localhost klogd: ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2) Oct 5 13:38:03 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:38:03 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ata2: EH complete Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 17247991 Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: Aborting journal on device sdb1:8. Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ext4_abort called. Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: Remounting filesystem read-only Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: journal commit I/O error Here's my fstab: # Entry for /dev/sda5 : UUID=b4d5c598-4cb1-4555-be9d-869cf0da9a78 / ext4 relatime 1 1 # Entry for /dev/sdb1 : UUID=28e1570a-c15a-4cc3-ace4-60271d9299af /home ext4 relatime 1 2 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda1 : UUID=3ED03D08D03CC843 /mnt/win_c ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdb5 : UUID=94F00622F0060B66 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdc1 : UUID=1234-5678 /mnt/win_c3 vfat umask=000,iocharset=utf8 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda6 : UUID=b0ca92e5-68d6-4330-9fa0-f1668b17fe1e swap swap defaults 0 0 Any ideas on how to stop this from occurring?

Yes. I've not had a lot of time to work on the computer lately but I'm finally back in Linux (I'm forced into Windows because of this). I have no problems whatsoever in Windows with accessing/writing to any of my drives. My fstab: # Entry for /dev/sda5 : UUID=b4d5c598-4cb1-4555-be9d-869cf0da9a78 / ext4 relatime 1 1 # Entry for /dev/sdb1 : UUID=28e1570a-c15a-4cc3-ace4-60271d9299af /home ext4 relatime 1 2 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda1 : UUID=3ED03D08D03CC843 /mnt/win_c ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdb5 : UUID=94F00622F0060B66 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdc1 : UUID=1234-5678 /mnt/win_c3 vfat umask=000,iocharset=utf8 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda6 : UUID=b0ca92e5-68d6-4330-9fa0-f1668b17fe1e swap swap defaults 0 0

I just built a new system and have been using Mandriva (2009.1 Spring 64-bit) on it for about a month. About a week ago I started getting I/O errors across the board. I immediately rebooted into Windows and checked the drive. No problems with it and I spent the next week in Windows because I didn't have the time to go back and diagnose the issue in Linux. I rebooted last night and after having to run fsck manually (Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan were found) everything was appearing to work normally until now: Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: status: { DRDY } Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:36:58 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:04 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SRST failed (errno=-16) Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link online but device misclassified, retrying Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:08 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:14 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SRST failed (errno=-16) Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link online but device misclassified, retrying Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:18 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:24 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Oct 5 13:37:30 localhost klogd: npviewer.bin[13854]: segfault at f6a45470 ip 00000000f6a45470 sp 00000000e9e1803c error 14 Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SRST failed (errno=-16) Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link online but device misclassified, retrying Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.01: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:53 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:37:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SRST failed (errno=-16) Oct 5 13:37:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Oct 5 13:37:58 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) Oct 5 13:37:58 localhost klogd: ata2.00: link online but device misclassified, device detection might fail Oct 5 13:37:59 localhost klogd: ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2) Oct 5 13:38:03 localhost klogd: ata2.00: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:38:03 localhost klogd: ata2.01: hard resetting link Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ata2.00: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ata2: EH complete Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 17247991 Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: Aborting journal on device sdb1:8. Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: ext4_abort called. Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: Remounting filesystem read-only Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Oct 5 13:38:04 localhost klogd: journal commit I/O error This didn't appear until I started downloading a few large files through a torrent. This also started happening last time that I was using BitTorrent.

My Windows partition is FAT32 and accessable. I was looking for a program that would be able to do incremental and differential backups of everything... If I use K3B, I'll have to remember what files are new and what ones have changed over time.

I've taken a look at the backup system in the MCC - it doesn't allow me to back up areas of my Windows partition as well. I'm not interested in backing up the operating system, only my personal files.

I'm looking for a piece of software that will let me backup both my Linux and Windows partitions (dual boot, they're both on the same hard drive) onto DVDs, preferrably with some system to do incremential and differential backups on a regular basis that's easy to use. I've been looking around for a little while and not really finding anything. Anyone have any suggestions?

A full reboot was all that was required after that. hald is now running and the camera mounts correctly and this time, it actually offers to pull the pictures off of the camera for me (perhaps a new feature of KDE 3.5.3?) Thanks for everyone's suggestions and help.

Well, I reverted back to the original HAL sources from Mandriva. http://www.linuxfordummies.org/index.php?topic=509.0 After a reboot, this did not fix the problem. gnome-volume-manager wants the hald service to be running. In the Mandriva Control Center, I cannot find this service. How would I go about installing/running said service? This also seems to tie in with dbus, like I mentioned above, so I pulled all the dbus RPMs off of the system, in much the same manner that the SoS creator suggested the HAL RPMs be removed in the above thread. Whatever wasn't covered by the original Mandriva RPMs was reinstalled from SoS (I'm not sure if the new versions of KDE require those SoS dbus RPMs that aren't distributed from Mandriva). The good news in all of this is that in the middle of that installation process of the Mandriva dbus RPMs, KDE popped up with that message when I inserted the installation CD, telling me a new medium was detected and asked me what to do with it. This is good, that's what used to happen before, with new CDs, with my camera... Problem is, my camera still doesn't get that dialog. I do not know if a reboot will solve that problem, or if it's this missing hald process that gnome-volume-manager keeps requesting. Running gnome-volume-manager from the command line produces: libhal.c 767 : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceDoesNotExist raised "Service "org.freedesktop.Hal" does not exist" ** (gnome-volume-manager:5948): WARNING **: manager.c/978: seems that HAL is not running Mandriva Control Center lists haldaemon as running, but not hald. :wacko:

I just upgraded to 3.5.3 today, actually. I figured if USB isn't going to work until I figure a fix, I may as well start tinkering around with something interesting, because if it all goes to crap, it'll give me a really good reason to reinstall and get my USB back. :) I did some investigating and the creator of the SoS RPMs said that some people have had issues with his HAL RPMs, so he had instructions on how to revert back to official Mandriva HAL RPMs without pulling everything apart. I did so, but I haven't rebooted/restarted HAL. I'll probably reboot soon enough, just taking a break from the whole KDE bit and trying to figure out a brand new (but only minorly irritating) issue with xscreensaver. I'm anxiously waiting for 2007. It's getting better with every release, albeit slower (AMD Duron 1.1GHz and only 256MB RAM).

Thanks, but that wasn't the issue at all. It worked fine with Konquerer before.

If it is the SoS upgrades that have done this to my system (dbus and HAL), I have no idea how I am going to revert this, since I can't seem to find replacement packages for all of the SoS dbus and HAL related packages that I installed in my recent upgrade. I am not the only one having problems, apparently the packages have broken VMWare on other users' systems, according to the SoS forums. I am just hoping this doesn't break anything else, because it looks like I'm stuck with these SoS RPMs until there's a fix or I find the replacement Mandriva RPMs that I can revert back to.

Well, I ran gnome-volume-manager from a shell and got this output: libhal.c 644 : Error connecting to system bus: No reply within specified time ** (gnome-volume-manager:6741): WARNING **: manager.c/960: failed to initialize HAL! This is unknown territory for me. Apparently others have been having similar issues, but... http://forum.mandrivaclub.com/viewtopic.php?t=49835& I, too, am using some SoS sources and I know for sure that I recently updated dbus with an SoS source (as of two days ago). I'm not sure whether or not I should downgrade, after reading that thread.

Looks like it's not installed. I'll root around on the net, see if I can grab the RPM that has it, if it's not heavy on the dependencies. I take it, though, that it's dependent on having Gnome installed?

It's enabled and looks exactly like your example. Removable Storage does not exist in my KMenu anywhere, including where you specified. What's the actual name/command for that option so I can run it from the command line? Trying to poke around in the Mandriva Control Center resulted in it crashing. Not sure why that's happening, either. I am not using a memory stick, just the camera's own memory. To be sure, I rebooted into Windows and took the pictures off the camera, then formatted the memory. I figured it had little to do with the camera anyway, since Windows detects it like it always has. Still doesn't work in Linux.

I'm running Mandriva 2006 and KDE 3.5.1. I have a HP Photosmart 620 camera that, shortly after I would plug it in, KDE would pop up and tell me that it has detected a new device, and asking me what I want to do with it. I have the camera in "hard disk" mode. From that point I can pull up Konquerer and pull the pictures off of the camera. Well, it just stopped working a short while ago (I don't have an exact timeline since I haven't plugged in the camera for a while). I am not very knowledgable about USB devices and mounting them with Linux since I started working with it, because the 2.4.x kernel that I started out with would never detect USB devices on my motherboard, so I'm just starting to learn now. My basic understanding is that when the camera is plugged in, a few programs that are required load, but the device never makes it into the fstab and therefore neither KDE or I can attempt to mount the device. A dmesg on camera plugin results in this: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 10 scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 10 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: hp Model: photosmart 620 Rev: 100 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sda: 14017 512-byte hdwr sectors (7 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08 sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 14017 512-byte hdwr sectors (7 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08 sda: assuming drive cache: write through /dev/scsi/host6/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] parport0: irq 7 detected ppdev: user-space parallel port driver ppdev0: registered pardevice ppdev0: unregistered pardevice usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 11 scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 11 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: hp Model: photosmart 620 Rev: 100 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sda: 14017 512-byte hdwr sectors (7 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08 sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 14017 512-byte hdwr sectors (7 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08 sda: assuming drive cache: write through /dev/scsi/host7/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi7, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi7, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 11 usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 12 Any help with this would be appreciated since I'm a bit lost in this territory.

Thanks, that fixed it!

I've added both and they've made no difference. It's like the icons want to go in their proper configuration when I click Sort by Name, but then they promptly bounce back into the mess they're in now.

I just installed the SoS KDE 3.5.1 RPMs after removing the default Mandriva RPMs. So far, a few small problems here and there, but one thing that's really irritating me is the icon spacing on the desktop. When I logged in for the first time, it was normal, but somewhere along the way the icons were respaced, with large gaps in between icons. I tried Align to Grid, Sort Icons by Name, and Line Up Horizontally, but they keep reverting back. They will align for maybe a 1/4 of a second, but then develop that huge spacing. Line Up Vertically has the same issues, it's nicely spaced from top to bottom, but side by side... It's quite unsightly because now I have two rows of icons instead of one. There's only seven on one row. Does anyone know how to fix this? I've been Googling for a few hours now and I'm coming up with very little, and what I am finding seems to apply to a bug that was supposedly fixed by now. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

If I make an attempt at removing GhostScript, this is what I get: Because of their dependencies, the following package(s) also need to be removed: a2ps-4.13b-8mdk, cups-drivers-2006-7.1.20060mdk, foomatic-db-3.0.2-1.20050825.2mdk, ghostscript-module-X-8.15-24.3.20060mdk, gutenprint-foomatic-5.0.0-0.9mdk, gutenprint-ijs-5.0.0-0.9mdk, ImageMagick-6.2.4.3-1.1.20060mdk, kdeaddons-3.5.1-1.1.20060.SoS, kdegraphics-3.5.1-0.1.20060.SoS, kdegraphics-kdvi-3.5.1-0.1.20060.SoS, kdegraphics-kghostview-3.5.1-0.1.20060.SoS, kipi-plugins-0.1.0-0.rc1.2.1.20060mdk, OpenOffice.org-1.1.5-2.2.20060mdk, OpenOffice.org-help-en-1.1.5-2mdk, OpenOffice.org-l10n-en-1.1.5-2.2.20060mdk, postscript-ppds-2006-1mdk, printer-filters-2006-7.1.20060mdk, sam2p-0.44-1mdk, tetex-3.0-12.1.20060mdk I'm not removing all that to get rid of GhostScript... Is there another way of going about this?

I agree about being able to make my own decisions about where something goes in the menu. I don't want my software throwing things together for me. At least make an option to turn that off or something. Still, this doesn't explain why I can't move applications or submenus into submenus that I create, or why when I rename More Applications and change its icon, that it keeps changing itself right back.

I've been having errors with KGhostView. It was telling me that it couldn't open PDF files. It was working not that long ago, but maybe about a week ago, it just started telling me it couldn't open anything. I narrowed the problem down to Ghostscript itself. GS version: ESP Ghostscript 815.01 (2005-09-22) Here's the error: Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in get Operand stack: Actionsh.pfb 0 I really prefer to use KGhostView to read my PDF files. XPDF has given me nothing but problems and PDFs aren't readable in it for some reason that I don't care to fix because I never liked the program in the first place. Anyone know what's causing this error and how I should go about correcting this so I can read my PDFs again?

I'm not sure if I've had that problem. There's been so many changes I've tried to make, and so many funky changes back that I really can't keep them straight in my head. :wacko: I was on Mandrake 9.2 before, and I recall it working better, but there were still problems with it changing stuff back. It's quite annoying, and I absolutely cannot see the purpose of that program reverting everything (or only some things!) back on a relogin/reboot.

I have been trying to edit my K Menu for a while now, using Menudrake (both as root and as my normal user). It never properly saves the changes, and causes me hassle when I try to create/move submenus. I edited my menu (All Applications style), as my regular user, for KDE only. I renamed More Applications as Applications, changed the icon and moved/deleted a whole bunch of stuff. I saved, and the first thing I notice is that it doesn't save the icon change, and changes the name back to More Applications. This has happened before, and as soon as I log out, it will restore everything that was in the default menu, along with my other changes. If I move a menu (say, Games), when it restores its own menu, it will truncate my moved one, so there will be less subfolders and fewer applications. This seems random, I can't exactly figure out what it's doing. :angry2: I tried to create a submenu in Games (which I renamed Entertainment) and move the different KDE game submenus into that. It won't let me move anything into that submenu. Does anyone know why I am having so many problems with Menudrake? I tried using the KDE menu editor (even though I know it's not supposed to work) and found it much more user friendly, even though it doesn't save all changes, but it's at least less frustrating to work with, opposed to Menudrake which won't let me move those submenus AND won't keep my changes.