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Run this in a command prompt: rpm -qa | sort | xargs -n 1 -t rpm -V &> /home/<username>/Desktop/rpm-Va.txt | exit What it does is it scans your system for all RPMS installed, their associated files, and whether any of those files are missing, and creates a file on your desktop with this information. If any missing files are found, then reinstall the RPMS associated to the missing files. In your case, I would also reinstall the RPM that borked manually. Use: rpm -ivh <messed up rpm>.rpm --force Without the --force at the end, you'll be informed that the package is already installed and stop.

My bad.... I didn't notice there was a 2nd page to this thread.

It is on the site you mentioned: http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrakel...install/images/

Hello all! I am in the process of downloading the new Mandriva 2008 and was thinking about partitioning. I've noticed since 2007.0 that Mandriva now offers LVM as a partitoning scheme. I've always stuck to my existing partitioning scheme, but it seems that this is the route most Linux distros are going. I was wondering about people's experience with LVM. I have had my partitioning scheme in place since Mandrake 9.x. It's very broken up (in case anything happens to a particular partition, it will not hose the rest of my system). I currently have /, /usr, /usr/local, /home, /tmp, /var and /boot each on their own partitions (and of course my swap partition). Would it make sense to move to LVM or keep my existing partitions? I have 3 machines partitioned in this manner (again due to successful experience). Mandrake 2007.0 AMD Athlon64 3500+ 2GB RAM ATI All-In-Wonder X600 MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum

That all depends on what fonts you had installed. I would recommend the Liberation Fonts, the MSTTCoreFonts and the WebCore Fonts. Also, if you're interested, the TTFBitstreamVera fonts. That's what I always start with.

Well... I tried your suggestions and it still won't work. I recently updated my ffmpeg and that may be part of the problem. I do get a ffmpeg error: ffmpeg: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libavformat.so.51: undefined symbol: av_crc04C11DB7 So.... I'm planning on updating to Mandriva 2008 soon. Hopefully that will fix my problem. I'll keep you posted.

I've checked Google and searched all kinds of documentation online, but it seems that they all show how to convert a video file to MP4 format. I have a MP4 file and want to convert it/burn it to DVD so that I may view it on my DVD player. Does anybody know how I can accomplish this? Is there a need? Do DVD players recognize an MP4 file? I'm familiar with converting an AVI to MPG and creating the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders with their associated files. I am using Mandriva Linux 2007 on an AMD64 machine with 2GB RAM. Are there any specific programs that I may need? I have most video/audio RPMs installed.

Yeah.... I understand how the updates work, but like I had said it's been falling behind. Thanks for the update, Adam.

It seems like the update repositories have not been working lately? They seem to be falling behind in updates when compared to the Security Advisories. Does anybody know what is going on?

Well.... thanks for the replies guys. I thought I had found a way to keep my 2006 updated, but alas, I am left with finding an alternative. I'm not sure if I will keep 2006 on it or upgrade to a newer version of Mandriva, or find something that is more in line with what I am trying to accomplish. I might look into MNF.

Oh... yeah.... crap! I guess you're right. Is there any other way to update 2006 without downloading the SRC RPM for all the updates and re-compile?

Can an Unsupported Mandriva 2006 distribution be updated with Mandriva Corporate Server 4 updates? They appear to be similar distributions. I love my 2006 as it is, but I would hate to have it fall to an attack based on an unpatched package that has been updated in a future version, specifically referring to the Shorewall, Bind, Squid, Samba and DHCP packages.

Well... it looks like I've solved this problem as well. After spending the day googling all kinds of ACPI issues and trying various things, the computer finally spent an evening without locking upon Suspend. Actually, I was shocked to find that it worked. Basically, I followed the steps on this site: gentoo-wiki.com. It is geared towards Gentoo Linux, but I walked through it using great care to transform in to my specific distro (Mandriva Linux 2007.1 Spring). The real test will come if it can go through a week without locking up on me. Thanks for the help Adamw. I wonder if we need to put a dsdt.aml file on the /boot partition and add it to Mandriva's initrd process? I know that it would be different for everybody since everybody has different motherboards, but since the file is in /proc/acpi/, why can't we also copy it, or symlink it, to the /boot directory and add it to initrd?

Well..... fixed the issue. In trying to resolve a problem with Suspend To Disk on this same machine, I solved this issue by adding a kernel option to my 2.6.17-14mdv line in Grub. I added 'noapic'. Now, I am able to boot into 2.6.17-14mdv with no problems. FYI - I had the Suspend To Disk issue before as well. But hey, one down, one to go. ----------- Adamw, I do have a NVidia card in this machine (NVidia GeForce 4200 Ti) using the nv96xx rpm package for it. ----------- Terry, you might be able to do something with the symlinks in the /boot partition to get it to use the old modules..... not sure though what this might do. [edited by tyme to fix link code. remember: no html code in posts, only bbcode]

I seem to be experiencing a problem on my son's computer with Suspend To Disk. Suspend To Ram seems to work fine. After long periods of inactivity, the computer enters Suspend To Disk and is unable to wake. The mouse and keyboard are not functional; the monitor remains black. However, I am able to SSH into the box and access everything. But if I want to do anything physically on the box, I have to reboot it from within SSH (for a clean reboot) or hard boot it by holding the Power button in. The motherboard is a EPoX 4VKM3I with a P4 Coppermine CPU with multithreading; hence, it states I have 2 CPUs in it, even though I do not. The BIOS has the latest BIOS update. I have 1G RAM, 120G ATA HDD, DVD-RW, Princeton AGX900, PS2 Keyboard, USB Mouse. Although it is a desktop, I like the powersaving capabilities of laptops, hence why I use KPowersave (especially since my son tends to play sporadically throughout the day). I also force him to log off using cron before my other cron jobs go off (in case this was also a source of the problem). No good. Google searches for Suspend issues indicate files that I just do not seem to have in places where they should be. Not sure if this is correct for Mandriva. I will check on that and reinstall the necessary package if need be, but I thought I'd ask here in case people are experiencing the same thing. Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks adamw, but I already do have those installed. No change. As an FYI, I do have issues with the USB subsystem using the -13 kernel. This is why I "rejoiced" when the -14 kernel was released. However, that caused the issues in this thread.

I may have to do just that scarecrow. I tried re-downloaded and re-installed the -14 kernel and it still didn't fix my problem. So I rebooted back into the -13 kernel. All is well for now and since I do, at least, have the -14 kernel installed, it shouldn't complain. In the meantime, I'll review the changelog, as you suggest, and wait for the next kernel revision.

Thanks for responding. Yes. The mouse is USB, but the RT61 wireless card is an add-on PCI card (I didn't feel like running cable to my son's room, but will worst case scenario). Thus far, those two devices appear to be troublesome with the -14 kernel on my son's machine. Also, AussieJohn - thanks for your response as well. I will try your suggestion and try to reinstall the kernel rpm. I'll let you know how it goes.

I recently introduced my son to the world of Linux on a home-built computer (I usually build my own) and I installed Mandriva Linux 2007.1 Free on a P4 with 1GB RAM, NVidia GeForce 4200, DVD+RW, RT61 wireless, Gigabit LAN, Epox 4VKM3I motherboard. Everything appeared fine once installed. When the kernel update was released from 2.6.17.13mdv to 2.6.17.14mdv, I updated as usual. I run Mandriva Linux 2007.0 Powerpack on my computer. I had no problems with the update on my computer. However, not so lucky on my son's computer. The mouse is choppy, almost unusable; the RT61 wireless card will not work and is unable to see my wireless network. I have a better experience doing a CTRL-ALT-F1 and work in console mode. But my son is still learning and he wants to be able to do whatever he wants (he's 9 and his Internet habits consist of looking up Pokemon and cheats for his Pokemon games). I had just about given up, and decided to reboot into 13mdv again. Lo and behold, everything works again. I can't seem to find anything in the logs that would give me a hint as to what the problem might be. I've checked X logs, network logs, syslog and messages, boot.log; all come up with nothing other than 'unable to connect to network' (already know that). Any idea what may be the problem? I don't usually compile my own kernel, and the kernels provided by Mandriva have always worked fine for me. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

If you have added your standard software repositories (Mandriva, Contrib, PLF, free and non-free), you can add the 'rt61-firmware' package using: urpmi rt61-firmware at the command line or search for the package in RPMdrake. You will not need the Windows drivers. However, I have been experiencing a slight problem when configuring my wireless card. I set up my son's computer in my home office. Once set up, I shut it down and put it aside. I later decided that I wanted to fix some minor quirks, so I reconnected it and the wireless would not work. After spending the entire day trying to get it back up, I finally got it working again. I fixed those quirks I referred to and shut down the computer. I later moved the computer to my son's room and when connecting it and turning it on, the wireless card was not working again. I don't know what the problem is. I have not had time to just sit there and try to figure out what I did to get it working again. But I've repeated the same steps as well as trying other things and am still unable to get the wireless card to connect to my router. Oh and just for the record, this machine is running Mandriva 2007.1 Free i586 with KDE.

When downloading the RPM or when installing Java via MCC, it defaults the installation to /usr/java.

You need to provide a little more information, like your computer set up (do you have one, two, three NICs?, etc.), and how many computers will be connecting to this machine and what are they running? It can be done, but depending on what you want to do with it, there may be some manual configuration that needs to be done. Some configurations can be done with wizards (DNS, DHCP), while some has to be done manually (Firewall, Proxy, Samba).

OK - I'll try that. I did try urpmi from a konsole and it did the same thing....it hung up during the install. I try it and post tonight.

I have no idea how this happened, but RPMDrake is now hosed on my system (possibly a recent power outage). Whenever I try to install anything, it hangs during installation. I've tried to re-install RPMDrake, but obviously, it can't complete the installation. I just need to get RPMDrake working again so that I can go back to installing as I used to. What other ways are people using to install software in Mandrake. I am using 9.2 currently. Will RPMDrake in Cooker work or is that compiled for the 2.6 kernel (in preparation for MLX)? I tried doing a search, but the Search functionality looks funky this time around. I got this huge listing of garbage (possibly the text of the search results). I don't know if they're working on it or not.

Does WinXP have its Internal Firewall enabled? Can you access the Linux box from the WinXP machine? Do you see it in Network Neighborhood?