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...and i've just found OpenOffice also causes a logout/reboot/shutdown hang.

i too was using VMWare and have recently replaced it by VirtualBox. i am amazed by it's simplicity and speed. it's very easy to create and use a virtual machine and you can change it's configuration at will. however, one thing i can't do with VB is recording a CDROM, which i did using VMWare Player... IMHO: i think it's better to use a win2k ISO image in the HD instead of the actual win2k CD. it runs much faster (at least for me...). and later you can change VB config in order to use your actual host DVD drive. if you install your virtual win2k in your home partition it will be included in the remaster and the resulting DVD will be huge...

i can just click the .exe file to start wine, but because use wine to run just two dictionaries i need, i created menu entries whose command is wine "location of the .exe file" . to finish it, i always use the windows program gui itself. i went to http://www.winehq.org/ in order to maybe find something about it, and it does seem that killing wine processes is a pain in the arse, indeed... they suggest a few commands: pgrep wine|while read p; do kill -9 $p ; done; or wineserver -k or killall -9 wine-preloader i haven't tried those yet. if they work, would there be a way to put a script somewhere to automate that?

hey, chris, how are things! i've been using a toronto installation now, and that same annoying logout problem persists. but i think i found what application is not finishing properly and preventing the x-server to terminate: the villain seems to be wine.

one / partition $ ls -ld /tmp gives drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 240 Jul 18 15:32 /tmp/ EDIT: sorry, i did the above in the new installation. in the installation where i was doing the remaster (hda3), the result is this: drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 200 Jul 18 20:55 /tmp/ what does it mean?

here's it: # mklivecd toronto180707.iso mklivecd, version 0.5.11-20060911, [url="http://livecd.berlios.de/"]http://livecd.berlios.de/[/url] Copyright © 2002-2004, Jaco Greeff <jaco@puxedo.org> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Creating initrd: [ 95.51% 00:00:04/00:00:04]sh : line 1: 3649 Broken pipe /bin/zcat //tmp/initrd.gz 2>/dev/null] 3650 Segmentation fault | /bin/cpio -t >&/dev/null bootsplash not found in //tmp/initrd.gz ln: creating symbolic link `./current' to `/usr/share/gfxboot/themes/current': F ile exists ln: creating symbolic link `./current' to `/usr/share/bootsplash/current': File exists [100.00% 00:00:23/00:00:23] running: chkconfig --add harddrake with root / Setting filesystem parameters: [100.00% 00:07:16/00:07:16] Creating compressed image: [100.00% 00:05:25/00:05:29]chmod: can not access `/tmp/mklivecd.3489/livecd/livecd.sqfs': No such file or directory] DIE FATAL: Execution of 'chmod 644 /tmp/mklivecd.3489/livecd/livecd.sqfs' failed i uninstalled a colins dictionary which i run through wine, so the resulting iso this time was 1.1GB. i managed to build it using: mklivecd --nodir ^/root/temp,^/root/tmp,^/mnt,^/tmp,^/root/temp/livecd,^/root/livecd_iso --root / --workdir /root/temp/livecd --nofile ^/etc/X11/xorg.conf,^/etc/X11/XF86Config,^/etc/modprobe.conf,^/etc/modprobe.preload,^/etc/fstab --bootopt splash=silent --bootloader=grub /root/livecd_iso/toronto17072007.iso apart from that "segmentation fault" non-critical message, there was no error, and the resulting dvd booted, ran and installed fine. i know, as you said, there are many unecessary things in it, but because it worked before, i decided to use the same command to see if i would have any error this time... having cleaned the tmp residues of last mklivecds, df gives me Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 8,6G 3,0G 5,6G 35% / thanks, chris! i started using linux some three years ago (with kurumin), but never had time or chance to really learn linux in depth. however, it's my favourite hobby experimenting with it.. hope to learn more seriously in the future.

it's toronto i'm using now. actually, i did clean the tmp folder, and i had more than 5 GB free space. isn't this enough for a 1.7 GB iso? simple "mklivecd remaster.iso" gave that "unable to chmod 644" fatal error.

yeah, it sure is unnecessarily complicated... but, as you said, that was not a critical error, and amazingly it went ok this time! i haven't tried installing the new dvd yet, but it loaded and ran quite smoothly! this time, besides using a better dvd medium and burning with the right speed, i installed the package http://home.tiscali.nl/berenstraat/mcnl/sy...2007.1.i586.rpm before running mklivecd. (does this make a difference? i have no idea what it is, after all i'm just an average linux user having fun in my vacations...) that complicated command is from http://www.pclinuxonline.com/wiki/RemasterLiveCD. i have no idea what "bootimg=boot.lss" is... it's funny. when i tried to use the defaults (no "--workdir" line) , there was a chmod 644 thing fatal error related to tmp directory, i think...

howdy, chris! 1. What is your _exact_ built command (mklivecd ...): mklivecd --nodir ^/root/temp,^/root/tmp,^/mnt,^/tmp,^/root/temp/livecd,^/root/livecd_iso --root / --workdir /root/temp/livecd --nofile ^/etc/X11/xorg.conf,^/etc/X11/XF86Config,^/etc/modprobe.conf,^/etc/modprobe.preload,^/etc/fstab --bootopt splash=silent --bootimg boot.lss --bootloader=grub /root/livecd_iso/myremaster.iso 2. What is it that does not work, please be as specific as possible there was a kernel panic when i booted the one dvd i was able to burn, but it could have been a burning problem, so i'm now trying once again to create an iso using the command above... i'll see if it works this time... what do you think of the command above? 3. Which packages (list all here) and how did you update? openoffice, wmware player, wine, kaffeine, tvtime, xdtv, ardour, firefox, firestarter, java 6, ktorrent, new icons and kde styles, pt_BR language, etc, updated using mandriva control center with all official updates and distriburion sources added. 4. What is your exact kernel version, give the output of 'uname -r': 2.6.17-14mdv

hey, how you doin'!! i wanna create a remastered MCN from one of my HD installations (with lots of software added, kernel updated to -14 and many cosmetic customizations), but mklivecd (version 0.5.11-20060911) always gives me this message and doesn't work: Creating initrd: [ 95.51% 00:00:03/00:00:03]sh: line 1: 5436 Broken pipe /bin/zcat //tmp/initrd.gz 2>/dev/null] 5437 Segmentation fault | /bin/cpio -t >&/dev/null would there be an easy way to work that out?

Hi, again, it is still happening: sometimes it still hangs on reboot, and "Ctrl+Alt+F4" doesn't work. just the black screen with only the mouse cursor working... weird, isn't it?

yeah, i checked my VirtualCity install kdmrc and there is the liine. thanks a lot!

hi, chris, there isn't a line like that in my kdmrc... i have to add it, right?

thanks for your answer, chris! 3d desktop is not enabled. my video is onboard (sis, mobo asrock); yes: default KDE, only cosmetic changes and lots of software added; in systray: net applet, kmix, kwikdisk, knotes and firestarter; "start with an empty session" is already checked; any clue? daltro borowski

it does answer my question and clarifies things i just suspected and teaches me some new things indeed! thanks a lot!!

I installed delft to HD along with a few other distros (and it is my favourite one currently), updating to kernel -14. but one thing happens SOMETIMES that's intriguing me: sometimes when i logout or reboot or shutdown, it hangs on a black screen with only the mouse cursor working and doesn't go anywhere. as an average linux user i haven't been able to figure out the cause for this. this has never happened to MCN virtualcity, which i also installed.

MCNLIVE intalled to HD has become my favourite distro. Currently I'm using it much more than my PCLOS and the intall Mandriva (i always have some 4 or 5 distros installed). MCN really is much faster and responsive than Mandriva (at least on my Athlon XP), and has better brazilian portuguese support, and more sofware options, than PCLOS. so i wonder: why does chris say it's not recommended to install?