Clitheroe

Here's the output:

[david@localhost ~]$ su root

Password:

[root@localhost david]# rpm -qa | grep libopenslp1

[root@localhost david]#

Looks like it's not listed - will update software sources and post back.

Thanks, David.

Don't seem to have CUPS on my Mandriva 2008 box. Tried to install it via software management but get errror message saying: " Cant install CUPS Printing System".

Here's the console output whilst I was checking to get CUPS installed:

david@localhost ~]$ su

Password:

[root@localhost david]# rpm -qa | grep cups

libcups2-1.3.6-1.2mdv2008.0

libgnomecups-0.2.2-4mdv2008.0

libgnomecups-1.0_1-0.2.2-4mdv2008.0

cups-devel-1.0.4-1

[root@localhost david]# urpmi cups

A requested package cannot be installed:

cups-common-1.3.6-1.2mdv2008.0.i586 (due to unsatisfied libslp.so.1)

Continue installation anyway? (Y/n)

Any ideas,

Thanks, David.

Thanks, John and coverup. Some good information given and appreciated - I'll cetainley look intio all points mentioned.

Why would you want to stuff around with Lilo when you already have Grub installed ??? :huh: :huh: :huh: .

It is even expected that Grub will at last be the default boot loader in the next variation of Mandriva.

 

Cheers. John.

Okay, John, that's probably a fair question, so just let me explain my dual boot setup. I installed Mandriva 2006 on my primary HD, accepting the default setup options, which automatically install LILO. I then installed Ubuntu 6.06 on my secondary HD, again accepting the default setup options, which, this time, automatically installs GRUB. I then had a nice dual boot setup that allowed me to boot into either OS on boot-up by means of a bootloader menu. Now, as I understand it, GRUB installs itself on the primary HD (the HD the PC is set to boot from). If, say, anything when wrong with Mandriva 2006 (on the primary HD) and I would have to reinstall - the new, fresh install, would automatically overwrite GRUB, which means I no longer have a bootloader menu - which in turn means, that when I power-on the PC, it just boots straight into Mandriva 2006 leaving me with no way of booting into Ubuntu 6.06!

Now, reinstalling GRUb is mean to be so easy. However, I have tried all the 'howtos' on how to reinstall GRUB and all have failed miserably. So, what this means now, is that I have to reinstall Ubuntu again to get things back to normal as far as dual booting is concerned. This is a complete pain in the neck - in that if one OS gets screwed up, it effectively means that I not only have to reinstall that, but I also have to reinstall the second as well (albeit there is nothing wrong with it) because I can't boot into it because the bootloader has been overwritten! Take this as an example:

I just upgraded from Mandriva 2006 to 2007, Okay, so I put the 2007 install DVD in and procede to 'upgrade' Mandriva 2006 on the primary drive. 2007, installs fine, but completly overwrites the GRUB bootloader, which means I can't now boot into Ubuntu 6.06. All is well again as I have reinstalled both OSs, 2007 (primary HD) and Ubuntu 6.06 (secondary HD) Fortunately, I had made full system backups of both OSs when I had them customised as I wanted them and my work saved on them, so I was able to restore things back to normal. However, if I could have just been able to reinstall GRUB, I would have been saved half the work! I'm not quiet sure what you're saying as Linux is very new to me, but do you mean if I had installed GRUB when I installed 2007 instead of LILO, I would have had no problem booting into Ubuntu?

The easiest way is to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file if the gui doesn't save the setting correctly. You just add in the append= section the info from the previous post you linked here on the options to add to fix the problem.

 

Then rerun lilo to install the changes you just made.

Thanks for that. I currently dual boot Mandriva 2007 (Ist HD) and Ubuntu 6.06 (2nd HD). If I rerun lilo, I think I will overwrite the GRUB bootloader, which allows me to boot into either OS. I often hear that it's easy to reinstall GRUB, but any attempt I've made to do so in the past has ailed abysmally.

Thanks, guys.

I was just looking at this thread which suggests that the problem is a bug of Mandriva 2007 and offers a workaround.

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...l=Mandriva+2007

On another angle, I tried to disable ACPI by unchecking the 'Enable ACPI' box from the 'Setup How The System Boots' menu under MCC, but the menu does not allow you to do so, in as much that it doesn't save the change. Anyhow, holding the power-off button in for a few seconds seems to work just fine, so no problem. :D

Thanks, checked it out and ACPI was already enabled. I'm starting to think the HD might be failing as lots of other weird goings on have been happening lately.

David.

Hi, there.

I recently installed Mandriva 2007, but now it will not automatically poweroff and switch the PC off as it did befoe.

It goes through a sort of close down script then stops at a prompt which says "system halted' or words very much to that effect. I then have to disconnect the mains power suppy from the wall socket to switch off the PC entirely. Any ideas as to what the problem might be please?

David.

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

I had the same problem with mdv2006. The only way I could shut down was to open a console, su to root and run "reboot" or "shutdown now". It's a bug in mandriva's implementation of kde and kdm. You won't have this problem in gnome/gdm IIRC.

You can change your dm(display manager) from kdm to gdm in the Mandriva Control Center and see if that helps. The dm controls the login screen you get. IIRC if you change it to the gnome dm, gdm, you can logout OK but you have to go back to the login screen and select the shutdown option from within there. You can't shutdown directly from within kde; you can just log out.

Thank you!

Well, it looks like you wer'e right. I've just went over from Ubuntu into Mandriva 2006 - I then opened up a terminal as root - typed 'reboot' , and was able to get back to the bootloader menu!

I have not tried 'shutdown now', but I suspect it will work. The strange thing is: I had no problems closing down Mandriva 2006 before I did a full system restore yesterday - I guess things somehow got screwed up. Anyway, thanks for your help, at least I've got a 'work around' now.

David.

Hi,

Just having a little trouble getting out of Mandriva 2006. I hit 'restart' or 'shutdown computer' on the screen, and I just get the black 'X' in the centre of a blue screen and at that point, it just freezes (mouse and all)!

All I can do is click restart on the computer case and opt to boot into Ubuntu and close down from there.

The next time I go to boot into Mandriva, it starts up just fine, but before it does, it gives me a: 'your system appears to have shutdown uncleanly' message.

I'm guessing there is a problem with the 'X' /Xorg environment? Any ideas to fix things please?

David.

Thanks, Ian.

Here is the out put from my fstab file:

[david@localhost ~]$ su

Password:

[root@localhost david]# cat /etc/fstab

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1

/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

/dev/sda5 /mnt/External_Disk ntfs pamconsole,exec,noauto,utf8,iocharset=iso8859-15,managed 0 0

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0

/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0

none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 ext3 umask=0,defaults 1 2

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

[root@localhost david]#

The problems with accessing the drive aren't with chmod, but the mount options. Normally, you need to use "umask=0" to ensure you get full read/write access rights.

 

What's the partition information? I need to know if it's /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdb2 and the filesystem type, then I can help you add the information to your /etc/fstab file to ensure it's automatically mounted each time you start your system.

Right, many thanks, Ian, Gowater and John. Sorry, I'm a total newbie to Linux, so bear with me. My partition information is: /device/hdb1 (this is the 'mount point' I have used in MCC's disk partitionong section).

I notice under 'mount options' that there is no option to use "unmask=0" for the drive (hdb1) - this option simply does not exist! I find this odd, because if I look under 'mount options' re: my external disk drive - "unmask=0" is clearly visable and can be selected as an option.

I formatted the drive I want to use (hdb1) in 'ext 3', I hope this is correct. I'm really stumped on this one now, so I hope you can help me. I never thought something so simple as formatting a second hard drive so that it can be used for saving data to could ever be so complicated.

Cheers,

David.

Edit: Would I have had to create a swap file for this drive? All I have done is formatted the entire drive in 'ext 3'.

Hi, John.

Thanks for the welcome, and I appreciate your help. I finally got the drive mounted where I wanted it in 'Konqueror' - yipeeee, I thought - finally cracked it! However, I cannot access the drive due to not having the right 'permissions' apparently.

I have tried going into a terminal and using the 'chmod 777' command, but I'm not sure of the syntax. Do you or anyone else know exactly what I would have to type in the terminal window to allow read & write access to all users - or failing that, myself, 'david'.?

Cheers,

David.

Hello, everyone.

I'm a Mandriva newbie. I have formatted my second hard drive in Mandriva and want it to go under 'Devices' on the KDE desktop, so that I can just click on it to have access to it to store files. Whatever I do, and whichever mount point I choose, I just can't get this drive to 'show-up' anywhere so that I can use it.

It would appear to be the simplest thing to do, but having made the switch from Windows because I don't like many aspects of that operating system - I have to say such a task is a piece of cake on that OS. If anyone can help, I would be grateful.

David.

Hello, everyone.

Well, I thought I'd finally cracked it (after many attempts of trying as a Linux newbie) and was going to get my SpeedTouch 330 working in Mandriva 2006.

Here's the script I ran for your thoughts on what might have gone wrong. I would really appreciate any help, thanks:

Password:

[root@virgin david]# dir

autosave Download speedtouchconf-27-Jun-2006

benefitstrapgermany.doc mgmt.o speedtouchconf-27-Jun-2006.tar.gz

David's\ Documents Music speedtouch-firmware_0.3012k_all.deb

Desktop ogg tmp

Documents Pictures Video

[root@virgin david]# tar xzvf speedtouchconf-27-Jun-2006.tar.gz

speedtouchconf-27-Jun-2006/

speedtouchconf-27-Jun-2006/po/

speedtouchconf-27-Jun-2006/po/C/

Then there are long lines of 'speedtouchconf-27-Jun-2006' etc. that just go on repeating themselves for quiet a while before we get to:

© Steve Parker, 17 Oct 2002 - 2005 (http://steve-parker.org)

speedtouchconf comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type:

./speedtouchconf.sh -gpl

This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it

under certain conditions.

See the included file COPYING for more details.

************************************************

* *

* speedtouchconf.sh by Steve Parker *

* *

* http://speedtouchconf.sourceforge.net/ *

* based on speedtouch.sourceforge.net project *

* *

************************************************

If you have any problems with this script, mail me

(steve at steve-parker dot org) with the files

/tmp/speedtouch.txt and (possibly) /var/log/messages for diagnosis.

Linux kernel version 2.6 okay.

/home/david/speedtouchconf-27-Jun-2006

*******************************************

* *

* Please select your ISP Settings *

* *

*******************************************

Country/ISP VPI VCI

Belgium, ? 8 35

Denmark, Orang 8 35

France, Wanadoo 8 35

France, ? 8 67

Italy, ? 8 35

Netherlands, ? 8 48

Netherlands 0 35

Poland (NeoStrada) 0 35

UK, Any 0 38

Austria (AON) 8 48

US, BellSouth 8 35

Singapore Pacificnet 0 100

Please type your VPI VCI numbers (eg, 0 38 for UK)

0 38

Please enter your ISP Login ID (eg another@hg1.btinternet.com)

david.hardcastle@adsl.virgin.net

Please enter your ISP Password

blackpig1

Settings:

VPI / VCI : 0 / 38

Login : david.hardcastle@adsl.virgin.net

Password : MY PASSWORD

Are these correct? (Y/N)

y

No further user interaction is required.

Configuring SpeedTouch Driver...

Software Configuration - SUCCESS

Building SpeedTouch Driver...

Software Build - SUCCESS

Installing SpeedTouch Driver...

Software Installation - SUCCESS

Creating ppp files in /etc/ppp

You can ignore any insmod hints here...

2.6.12-12mdk

*** Configuration finished. Starting the connection ***

Sun Jul 9 16:08:02 BST 2006

The modem lights should start flashing for approx. 60 seconds...

You might see some messages about USBDEVFS_BULK failed - you can ignore this.

Sun Jul 9 16:08:02 BST 2006

The modem_run command failed (code 235)

modem_run results:

Mutex value not OK

FAILED because of modem_run error 235

[root@virgin speedtouchconf-27-Jun-2006]# Jul 9 16:08:03 virgin hald[3113]: Timed out waiting for hotplug event 944. Rebasing to 974

And that's as far as the script gets. Can anyone think of what might be wrong? I'm assuming I have the right microcode in ' mgmt.o' , but I'm not entirely sure. Any thoughts/help on this matter would be appreciated.

Many thanks,

Dave. :mellow:

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