phatsteve

Now that I have Icewm I can run Smart ok, at the moment I am updating the database, it's quite slow, I think I'll try again later, Thank for all the help and suggestions

Tried startx again, it dropped me into icewm desktop, some progress now. How do I repair KDE from here?

P4 2.5 Ghz, 512 ram laptop

Tried smart install kdebase etc, received this message:- error: Can't install kdebase-common-1:3.5.6-34mdv2007.1@i586: it's conflicted by the locked package kdebase-2-3.5.7-mde2007.1@i586

Still saying 'Computing transaction...' 30 mins now

I'm running smart upgrade now, it's been saying 'Computing transaction...' for 15 mins with no hdd activity, is this normal? The nic light flashes intermittantly.

Thankyou ffi, I did what you said and logged in as root, and am running smart update now (it's my laptop with problem, I'm emailing from my desktop)

Orts, I tried your suggestion and received this reply:- packages cannot be installed(kdebase etc) due to missing unsatisfied liblazy.so.0

This is what happens with smart update

$ smart update

error: Configuration is in readonly mode.

How do I run xfdrake?

Help! I can't login anymore. KDE has dissapeared, my login screen has completely changed to MDE! There is no KDE entry in sessions only Icewm, drak3d, default, failsafe,& custom, none of which work.I can login in terminal but when I issue 'startx' all I get is a blue screen with 2 open terminal boxes. This all happened after I after I went here:- www.mde.djura.org and enabled Mandriva Enhanced RPMs. Afterwards there were 119 updates installed, after a reboot nothing worked! At the Grub screen I have tried every kernel option available, still no good.I don't want re-install if I can help it as I had things set up just right.I am using 2007-1 Spring, KDE version. Can anybody please help?

 

 

[moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

Absolutely spot on! I amazed at how much you guys know about the workings of Linux! Thankyou very much, this completely solved the problem, my network was up immediately on re-boot.It's shown as eth3 now, not wlan0 but who cares? it works! Thankyou again.

Thankyou - that fixed it, I did a search for nvidia in rpmdrake and there were 6 installed entries for nvidia kernels, I uninstalled them and I've now got a green tick instead of a red exclamation mark! I don't know how they got there (It wasn't me!), but it's ok now. Thanks again and thanks to all who took the time to reply.

Thanks for the reply, here is the output from your instructions:-

 

root@ntlworld mario]# lsmod

Module Size Used by

ipt_IFWLOG 3524 2

ipt_psd 44392 1

ip_set_iptree 7080 2

eth1394 17092 0

iptable_raw 2336 0

xt_policy 4320 30

xt_multiport 3744 4

ipt_ULOG 6916 0

ipt_TTL 2624 0

ipt_ttl 2336 0

ipt_TOS 2528 0

ipt_tos 2144 0

ipt_TCPMSS 4192 0

ipt_set 2848 2

ipt_SAME 2848 0

ipt_REJECT 4736 4

ipt_REDIRECT 2656 0

ipt_recent 10380 0

ipt_owner 2432 0

ipt_NETMAP 2624 0

ipt_MASQUERADE 3744 0

ipt_LOG 6912 9

ipt_iprange 2336 0

ipt_hashlimit 7912 0

ipt_ECN 3264 0

ipt_ecn 2592 0

ipt_DSCP 2560 0

ipt_dscp 2176 0

ipt_CLUSTERIP 7172 0

ipt_ah 2336 0

ipt_addrtype 2304 0

ip_set_portmap 4672 0

ip_set_macipmap 4580 0

ip_set_ipmap 4576 0

ip_set_iphash 7716 0

ip_set 18812 11 ip_set_iptree,ipt_set,ip_set_portmap,ip_set_mac

ipmap,ip_set_ipmap,ip_set_iphash

ip_nat_tftp 2144 0

ip_nat_snmp_basic 9348 0

ip_nat_sip 3872 0

ip_nat_pptp 5444 0

ip_nat_irc 2752 0

ip_nat_h323 6176 0

ip_nat_ftp 3360 0

ip_nat_amanda 2464 0

radeon 110208 2

drm 59764 3 radeon

ip_conntrack_tftp 3928 1 ip_nat_tftp

ip_conntrack_sip 6544 1 ip_nat_sip

ip_conntrack_pptp 9808 1 ip_nat_pptp

ip_conntrack_netbios_ns 2976 0

ip_conntrack_irc 5776 1 ip_nat_irc

ip_conntrack_h323 45340 1 ip_nat_h323

ip_conntrack_ftp 6640 1 ip_nat_ftp

ip_conntrack_amanda 4008 1 ip_nat_amanda

xt_tcpmss 2688 0

xt_pkttype 2368 4

xt_physdev 2928 0

xt_NFQUEUE 2528 0

xt_MARK 2816 0

xt_mark 2400 0

xt_mac 2400 0

xt_limit 2912 0

xt_length 2464 0

xt_helper 2720 0

xt_dccp 3684 0

xt_conntrack 2848 0

xt_CONNMARK 2752 0

xt_connmark 2496 0

xt_CLASSIFY 2368 0

xt_tcpudp 3648 11

xt_state 2560 18

iptable_nat 7140 0

ip_nat 15404 12 ipt_SAME,ipt_REDIRECT,ipt_NETMAP,ipt_MASQUERADE

,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_sip,ip_nat_pptp,ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_h323,ip_nat_ftp,ip_nat_ama

 

nda,iptable_nat

ip_conntrack 46560 24 ipt_MASQUERADE,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_snmp_basic,ip

_nat_sip,ip_nat_pptp,ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_h323,ip_nat_ftp,ip_nat_amanda,ip_conntrac

 

k_tftp,ip_conntrack_sip,ip_conntrack_pptp,ip_conntrack_netbios_ns,ip_conntrack_i

 

rc,ip_conntrack_h323,ip_conntrack_ftp,ip_conntrack_amanda,xt_helper,xt_conntrack

 

,xt_CONNMARK,xt_connmark,xt_state,iptable_nat,ip_nat

iptable_mangle 2912 1

nfnetlink 5656 2 ip_nat,ip_conntrack

iptable_filter 3040 1

ip_tables 12484 4 iptable_raw,iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,iptable_f

ilter

x_tables 11780 47 ipt_IFWLOG,ipt_psd,xt_policy,xt_multiport,ipt_U

LOG,ipt_TTL,ipt_ttl,ipt_TOS,ipt_tos,ipt_TCPMSS,ipt_set,ipt_SAME,ipt_REJECT,ipt_R

 

EDIRECT,ipt_recent,ipt_owner,ipt_NETMAP,ipt_MASQUERADE,ipt_LOG,ipt_iprange,ipt_h

 

ashlimit,ipt_ECN,ipt_ecn,ipt_DSCP,ipt_dscp,ipt_CLUSTERIP,ipt_ah,ipt_addrtype,xt_

 

tcpmss,xt_pkttype,xt_physdev,xt_NFQUEUE,xt_MARK,xt_mark,xt_mac,xt_limit,xt_lengt

 

h,xt_helper,xt_dccp,xt_conntrack,xt_CONNMARK,xt_connmark,xt_CLASSIFY,xt_tcpudp,x

 

t_state,iptable_nat,ip_tables

ndiswrapper 159792 0

snd_seq_dummy 3364 0

arc4 2528 0

snd_seq_oss 29088 0

snd_seq_midi_event 6880 1 snd_seq_oss

ieee80211_crypt_wep 4608 0

snd_seq 46576 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event

snd_seq_device 6892 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq

snd_pcm_oss 38880 0

snd_mixer_oss 15072 1 snd_pcm_oss

natsemi 24704 0

af_packet 17320 2

snd_ali5451 19020 0

snd_ac97_codec 91332 1 snd_ali5451

snd_ac97_bus 2688 1 snd_ac97_codec

snd_pcm 65956 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec

snd_timer 18692 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm

snd_page_alloc 8136 1 snd_pcm

snd 44228 9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,s

nd_mixer_oss,snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer

ipv6 228576 14

soundcore 7648 1 snd

video 13796 0

thermal 11080 0

processor 21256 1 thermal

fan 3908 0

container 3840 0

button 5648 0

battery 8132 0

ac 4164 0

ide_cd 34912 0

binfmt_misc 9480 1

nls_utf8 2464 1

ntfs 248380 1

bcm43xx 417376 0

ieee80211softmac 25952 1 bcm43xx

loop 14248 0

ieee80211 30248 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac

ieee80211_crypt 5248 2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211

dm_mirror 18192 0

dm_mod 47672 1 dm_mirror

pcmcia 30444 0

yenta_socket 22924 2

rsrc_nonstatic 11232 1 yenta_socket

pcmcia_core 33268 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic

cpufreq_ondemand 6828 1

cpufreq_conservative 6824 0

cpufreq_powersave 2240 0

p4_clockmod 5412 0

speedstep_lib 4388 1 p4_clockmod

freq_table 4704 1 p4_clockmod

ati_agp 7436 1

agpgart 26088 2 drm,ati_agp

nvram 7688 0

ohci1394 30736 0

ieee1394 282200 2 eth1394,ohci1394

ohci_hcd 18532 0

usbcore 107616 3 ndiswrapper,ohci_hcd

evdev 8416 2

joydev 8480 0

tsdev 6720 0

ext3 119176 2

jbd 48404 1 ext3

ide_generic 1824 0 [permanent]

[root@ntlworld mario]# ifup wlan0

ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

[root@ntlworld mario]#

I have not installed these packages as they are for Nvidia cards and mine is Ati.I tried rebuilding RPM database, but the 6 'updates' are still there, and the updater is still saying 'updates are available for your system'.

My software package updater keeps wanting to install 6 different Nvidia kernels and I have Ati graphics. It also gave me the option for Ati kernel and driver update which I selected. I untick the Nvidia boxes and it is happy for a while, then it tells me updates are available and the boxes are all ticked again, it's starting to get on my nerves. Any ideas?

I've just switched to Mandriva from a number of different distros, I'm using Spring 2007-1. I have a Buffalo Airstation WiFi card that works fine with the broadcom driver in ndiswrapper, the problem is I have to set it up every time I re-start the laptop, this is getting tedious in the extreme! My /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 contains this:-

 

DEVICE=wlan0

BOOTPROTO=dhcp

ONBOOT=yes

METRIC=35

MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no

USERCTL=yes

RESOLV_MODS=no

WIRELESS_MODE=Managed

WIRELESS_ESSID=####

WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="open s:########"

WIRELESS_WPA_DRIVER=wext

IPV6INIT=no

IPV6TO4INIT=no

DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient

NEEDHOSTNAME=yes

PEERDNS=yes

PEERYP=yes

PEERNTPD=no

 

(sensitive parts hashed out)

I've read another post recommending locking xorg.conf file, but this seems a bit drastic.

Can anybody please help? Thankyou