malfist

Actually, if you do 'sudo su' it gives you root access as it you did 'su'.

What wasn't working was my nvidia driver and beryl/compiz/compiz-fusion. Every time I tried to make it work, it just totally screwed over my system. What do you not like about ubuntu? The thing I don't like about urpmi is that sometime it will give the error message packageName could not be installed without an information, even in verbose mode.

Mandriva's repos are a lot larger, or so it seems to me. I only compiled one program by hand in Mandriva and I have done several in Ubuntu.

Malfist

edit: about the 2GB swap, i have a 200GB HHD so I have the space for it :P I tend to agree with the 256MB limit because I do have 1GB of ram already.

I did a clean install and gave 2GB to swap and 20GB to /. Things still arn't working. I'm sorry, I'm going back to ubuntu where I know I can make it work. I wish ubuntu had the repos mandriva does though :(

I'm moving everything over to the vista partition and am going to do a clean install of 2007.1

Fun.

I'm trying to update but I get the error, Not enough room on '/' (or something like that). I've tried resizing it from windows with Partition Magic but it won't mess with this ext3 for some reason, it always has before. What should I do? I've tried urpmi --clean but that didn't help. The root partition is about 1.3 GB and I don't have too much crap installed. I do have KDE which I would love to take off, how can I do that?

Okay, some of you have been helping me with my update to 2007.1 from 2007.0, well I donwloaded the DVD and updated. Every thing looked pretty good, except X started restarting on me. I traced it down to when something tried to use OpenGL it crashed and restarted. So I checked my Nvidia drivers (GeForce FX 5200) and they looked okay. Then I tried to launch tremulous and it complained that I was using Mesa and had no OpenGL/3D libraries. So I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers and tried reinstalling them from MCC/urpmi. Well that seemed to go good. So I tried to set 3D up for it. It was crashing then, this time it didn't. I got the options and chose beryl. It said to restart X so I did and X couldn't run!

Anyway, I kinda fixed that by getting the driver and installed from nvidia.com and it seems to be working. I can run Tremulous (but it still crashes when I go to set up 3D on MCC (and sometimes randomly). But now GNOME is hanging in load up, when it says loading panel. In about 5min or so, it will exit and display desktop and all that but I don't have a window decorator. I don't have one for GNOME or KDE (IceVM works though, the DK(something) restarts X when I try to run it).

So now I try urpmi --update gnome-panel and it updates. Now GNOME still hangs on loading the panel and what is displayed is screwed up, I can't right click on the desktop anymore either.

Anyone have any idea, any idea on how to fix this? I'm doing urpmi --auto-update but that's ~2GB.

Both pieces of software worked before. I have things in the encrypted file container that kencfs2 created :(

All problems are now resolved with an update to 2007.1 don't know why, don't know how. It seems really odd. Even the bash thing is fixed. Should I file a bug report?

edit: kencfs2 isn't accepting my password!

Some excerpts:

bash-3.1$ kencfs2 
User specific directories for K-EncFS are present
User specific encrypted directory for K-EncFS present
/usr/bin/kencfs2: line 34: lsmod: command not found
/usr/bin/kencfs2: line 38: sudo: command not found
/usr/bin/kencfs2: line 39: lsmod: command not found
The kernel module fuse is missing. Please compile and install it before unless it is compiled into the kernel image!
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/local/lib/kencfs2/kencfs.py", line 17, in <module>
from qt import *
ImportError: No module named qt

and:

bash-3.1$ rhythmbox

(rhythmbox:11776): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Could not import pygtk
ImportError: No module named pygtk
ImportError: No module named artdisplay

(rhythmbox:11776): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Could not load plugin artdisplay


(rhythmbox:11776): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Error, impossible to activate plugin 'Cover art'
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/lyrics/lyrics.py", line 28, in <module>
import gtk, gobject
ImportError: No module named gtk

(rhythmbox:11776): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Could not load plugin lyrics


(rhythmbox:11776): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Error, impossible to activate plugin 'Song Lyrics'

And now for urpmi for some gtk:

bash-3.1# urpmi gtk+2.0 python-gtk python-gtk-devel ruby-gtk
unable to access hdlist file of "update_source", medium ignored
The package(s) are already installed

Now for qt:

bash-3.1# urpmi qt
unable to access hdlist file of "update_source", medium ignored
The package(s) are already installed
The following package names were assumed: qt3-common

bash-3.1# urpmi python-qt libqt4-devel qtruby
unable to access hdlist file of "update_source", medium ignored
The package(s) are already installed

Side note: I haven't figured out why it's showing bash-3.1# instead of root/jerome dir #/$

Both of these things worked last week and I haven't installed anything. Also the unable to access hdlist file of "update_source", medium ignored just started today.

I don't remember removing any libraries and when I got to urpmi it says it's installed. Mostly qt and gtk, I have them installed, I've used them! Can someone help?

So I do have to go with the DVD? I did check there, that's where I downloaded the CD.

edit: would the Mandriva-Free-mini work?

Where can I find the full CD's?

Sounds strange :huh:

Read this guide, and look carefully at subsection "Install Type".

If you don't get this screen, with the option to "Upgrade Mandriva Linux 2007.0 ........" Then I'm sure something is wrong with your DVD :)

That's not at all like what mine looks like, it seems to be a live CD that I can install from... (the GNOME i5(?)86)

Yes. just set in a cd/DVD containing 2007.1 and choose upgrade/update your excisting system, when promted.

But it highly recommended that you have a system running 2007.

I don't see the option to update. I see install and I follow it until it askes me which partition to format then I stop.

What should I do?

I don't think I have done anything to alter rhythmbox but now the plugins are not working (atleast lyrics and album art). They did the other day. But now they don't. I updated, and reinstalled and neither fixed it. Anyone know whats going on?

How can I do this without a total reinstall of the system?

I can't get my path variable to stick after reboot. I don't know how. I've been doing this to edit it:

$PATH=PATH:new/path
export $PATH

and it's not sticking after reboot. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

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Update, incase someone thinks it's solved:

uname -a says it's an i686 processor but I have legacy installed, which kernal should I choose to update to?

[jerome@jerome Desktop]$ uname -a
Linux jerome 2.6.17-5mdvlegacy #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 14:40:00 EDT 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ GNU/Linux

2007.0

Adding pcspkr fixed the problem. Thanks.

I think I'm running the 2007 version, I'm not sure, how can I check?

edit: I downloaded it last spring or winter, not sure which.

I'm not exactly sure where to put this so move it if it is needed.

My computer doesn't seem to make the default 'beep'. Even using "\7" (in C) does nothing. How can I fix this, why wasn't thins working out of the box? Should it have been?

Malfist

edit: it doesn't work for any program and IS enabled in System->Pref->Sound->System Beep

Is there a tool I can use to adjust the color profile of my monitor? Is there something better than lprof for the gamma and brightness, it's not too clear :(.

When I was looking in the repositories for what is installed, it said the legacy kernel is installed. Hence:

[root@jerome Desktop]# uname -r
2.6.17-5mdvlegacy

My machine is an i686 machine and I would like to find a kernel that is optimized for i686, how can I do this?

Thanks

That worked, that was what I needed.

Can't run kencfs2. I can install it but when I try to run it it says:

User specific directories for K-EncFS are present
User specific encrypted directory for K-EncFS present
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/local/lib/kencfs2/kencfs.py", line 18, in ?
from kdecore import KApplication, KIcon, KIconLoader, KCmdLineArgs, KAboutData
ImportError: No module named kdecore

So I do:

[root@jerome kencfs2]# urpmi kdecore
no package named kdecore
The following packages contain kdecore: 
libkdecore4
libkdecore4-devel

and both packages are installed :( can i get this to work? (I use GNOME, I really don't like KDE)

Malfist