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I did an online update from 2008.1 to 2009

I got a "distribution update success, must reboot machine" message

It hangs during the boot. This is what I get:

That's it. nothing else happens. Any suggestions?

BTW, I tried booting again. Same basic thing happens but with a slightly different events queue.

I see other options from the grub menu.lst so I am trying some other things.

Booting into safe mode. That fails as well.

Booting into desktop 2.6.27.4-2mnb. That fails as well.

Booting into desktop 2.6.27.4-1mnb. It gets farther before hanging. Last message is:

Booting into desktop586 2.6.24.7-1mnb. It also gets farther before hanging. But all the message fly by and it hangs at a blank screen.

So I went back to booting into 2009. Now it acts like booting into desktop586 2.6.24.7-1mnb. It also gets farther before hanging. But all the message fly by and it hangs at a blank screen. I will leave it in this state overnight. Perhaps it just needs more time for the 1st boot.

I ran Gparted a 2nd time and finally got the results I was looking for.

:D

What I meant to say in my previous post was that I can now boot into Mandriva.

That was this morning before I went to work. And that was how I was able to get into the Mandriva Control Center.

I shutdown before leaving for work and now after starting I am able to access my WinXP hda when in Mandriva,

whiich I couldn't do this morning.

I guess the restart did something.

I am still seeing that strange partitioning from the Mandriva Control Center.

I am making progress but sill have some problems.

I used a Gparted Live CD to move resize the partitions as you recommended.

All operations completed successfully.

And according to Gparted I have no empty sectors.

However the Mandriva Control Center does not agree.

MCC sees the disk with empty sectors as follows:

hdb1: 21GB

Empty: 7.8MB, Cylinder 2815 to 2815

hdb5 Swap: 1.9 GB

hdb6 /home: 246 GB

Empty: 9.7 GB, Cylinder 35206 to 36480

Shouldn't the first empty not exist since Cylinder is 2815 to 2815?

Also, I am having permission problems now. I can see but no longer access my hda.

And if I try to use the Mandriva Control Center to resize hdb6 into that last empty space I cannot.

I get a device busy error message.

Here is my fstab:

# Entry for /dev/hdb1 :

UUID=03d82053-6085-4098-81ca-74136eea16d9 / ext3 defaults 1 1

# Entry for /dev/hdb6 :

UUID=d95a5534-840d-4d57-8641-552b1fae1b19 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

# Entry for /dev/hdb5 :

UUID=dabf886d-e420-4edf-9544-4c696b934196 swap swap defaults 0 0

# Entry for /dev/hda1 :

#UUID=EA24F5FB24F5CA99 /media/hd ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

UUID=EA24F5FB24F5CA99 /media/hd ntfs-3g defaults 0 1

I had Mandriva 2008.1 working for about two days.

But now it will not boot.

I get an error that the /temp folder is full and KDE cannot be started.

I started up using the Live CD.

Sure enough my hdb1 partition is full.

I must have filled it up installing software from the repository.

The last things I thought I had installed were MySQL and MythTV.

Anyways, my intial partitions were about

hdb1 7.8 GB

hdb5 Swap 3.8 GB

hdb6 267 GB

I resized hdb6 down to about 257 GB and sure enough I can see that I have about 10 GB Empty

I though I would be able to just resize hdb1 from 7.8 GB to 17.8 GB (expanding it into the empty 10 GB)

But when I select resize for that partition it says the max allowable is 7.8 GB

How do I expand the hdb1 partition?

[moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

I installed Sound Juicer. And that rips to MP3 with no problem.

So I uninstalled Grip.

Although it would be nice to get KAudioCreator working since that is the KDE packaged application.

I am having some trouble ripping audio cd to mp3.

I have the lame package installed

If I use Grip I do not receive any error messages but the resulting mp3 file is of size 0.

Here is how Grip is configured:

Encoder: lame

Encoder executable: /usr/bin/lame

Encoder command-line: -h --tt "%n" --ta "%a" --tl "%d" --ty "%y" --tn "%t" --tg "%G" -b %b %w %m

Encoder file extension: mp3

Encode file format: ~/mp3/%A/%d/%t_%n.%x

Also, I tried KAudioCreator but I get a "selected encoder not found"

Here is how KAudioCreator is configured:

Encoder: MP3

Command Line: /usr/bin/lame

Extension: mp3

Location: ~/%{extension}/%{albumartist}/%{albumtitle}/%{artist} - %{number} - %{title}.%{extension}

I confirmed that the lame executable is in the /usr/bin file.

No not Greek, I copied and pasted that new line from another thread on this forum.

I will delete the locale= statement

The policy folder is empty

I was finally able to delete them while being logged into WinXP.

Although I couldn't say waht changed to stop error messages on the XP side.

ntfs-3g is installed and the fuse module loaded/running. Correct, or not?

If the answer is yes, please "cat /etc/fstab", if the NTFS volume is non-removable.

If I look at the disk partitions in MCC is says it is of type:NTFS-3G and is mounted

[jose@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fstab

# Entry for /dev/hdb1 :

UUID=03d82053-6085-4098-81ca-74136eea16d9 / ext3 defaults 1 1

# Entry for /dev/hdb6 :

UUID=d95a5534-840d-4d57-8641-552b1fae1b19 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

# Entry for /dev/hdb5 :

UUID=dabf886d-e420-4edf-9544-4c696b934196 swap swap defaults 0 0

# Entry for /dev/hda1 :

UUID=EA24F5FB24F5CA99 /media/hd ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

[jose@localhost ~]$

I also edited the fstab to try this:

[jose@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fstab

# Entry for /dev/hdb1 :

UUID=03d82053-6085-4098-81ca-74136eea16d9 / ext3 defaults 1 1

# Entry for /dev/hdb6 :

UUID=d95a5534-840d-4d57-8641-552b1fae1b19 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

# Entry for /dev/hdb5 :

UUID=dabf886d-e420-4edf-9544-4c696b934196 swap swap defaults 0 0

# Entry for /dev/hda1 :

#UUID=EA24F5FB24F5CA99 /media/hd ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

UUID=EA24F5FB24F5CA99 /media/hd ntfs-3g locale=el_GR.UTF-8,defaults 0 1

[jose@localhost ~]$

But I m still getting the error of disk is full if I try to delete files from that disk

FORGET IT !!

I found the login manaager

;)

I like how 2008.1 has a new KDM design with users list.

But on boot I am automatically logged on as a specific user.

How do I control which user gets logged on during boot?

Or better yet, is there a way to boot into the users list with no one getting logged on?

Thanks,

All those packages you mention are present on the PLF repo's for 2008.1

 

You could try using the Switch to Manual Mirror Selection option if you want to select which mirrors you want. (If I'm understanding you correctly)

 

[edit] If using MCC to install/look for software, make sure you have both dropdown boxes, (upper left), set appropriately, set both to all.

I manually changed my mirror selection to:

Official: France (ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net)

PLF: France (ftp://ftp.univ-orleans.fr)

I did find them all. I must have been making some stupid mistake.

:)

Hello,

I was in Madriva and copied some files to a WinXP NTFS disk for temporary safe keeping.

Now I want to delete them. WinXP will not let me delete nor will Mandriva. When in Mandriva if I try to move to trash I get a "Could not write disk full error " from Konqueror.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, Jose

I am running Mandriva 2008.1 Spring and have a question regarding software installs off of PLF repos for 2008.1

I can't seem to fnd things I had found in the repos for earlier Mandriva versions. Stuff like libdvdcss2, win32-codecs, dvdrip and k9copy.

Also, with the new way easy-urpmi works I can't tell which PLF repo's I am pointing to. How do I tell that? How can I change it if I want?

Thanks, Jose

Thanks everyone for the responses.

I have things set up the way I want now.

One extra thing I did learn though was that after changing the permissions I had to logout of my session and log back in before I saw the "Child" folders as unlocked in Konqueror from the "Parent" user account.

Thanks again,

Jose

I feel stupid that I have not been able to figure out file sharing between User Accounts in a single Linux box. All my searches lead to the topic of file sharing over LAN. I am trying to set up a user account for my children for which my user account will have full permissions and access. I have set up two user accounts that I will refer to as PARENT and CHILD. I made PARENT and member of the CHILD User Group. As CHILD, I set all the permissions to be Read & Modify for the User Group. Apparently this wasn't enough because when I am in Konqueror as PARENT the CHILD folders are still locked. I noticed that if I check the properties of a user's home folder as a user all I see are the "General", "Permissions" and "Meta Info" tabs. But if I check the permissions as root then I also see "Share" and "Sharing" tabs. The "Sharing" tab implies sharing over the web so I ignored this. The "Share" tab has a "Configure File Sharing" button. Nothing happens when this is selected and the message is "You need to be authorized to share folders". One would think root would be. I went into the Mandriva Control Center and added CHILD as a Samba user. This didn't help either.

Suggestions?

Thanks, Jose

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

If the latest kernel is working properly on your system, you can use the 'Install and remove Software' tool to remove the old one for more disk space. This will also remove the grub entry.

Thanks, this seems to be the best way to clean it up.

Hello,

I am running Mandriva 2008,0 with KDE. As a Linux newbie my tendency is to trust Mandriva Online and accept the list of package updates. This includes updates to the kernel itself. But the list of OS's in the GRUB Menu.lst file keeps growing. Now I am up to four versions in this list. They are:

I am not use to this every growing list of boot options so I have some basic questions.

Am I doing the right thing accepting all these updates? Is this normal behavior of Mandriva? Whenever my boot list grows should I always select the highest version to boot?

I suppose after every kernel update I will end up having to edit menu.lst to clean things up the way I like.

Thanks,

Jose

Problem solved.

Interestingly it was actually my KDE Font selection and not any setting in OO.

I was using Standard Symbol font which all other applications interpreted as the English alphabet.

OO was the only app to intpretet this font as the greek alphabet.

I went to a Windows machine and navigated through to the OO language settings menu.

Then, I went back to Mandriva and repeated these steps in OO and I could tell that the language setting was indeed US english.

That is when I went off and investigated the KDE font setting.

Thanks for all the responses.

Open Office takes its language settings from your locale settings. Check your locale settings in KDE Control Centre--> Regional & Accessibility--> Country/Region & Language.

It is set to US English

What version did you install? MDV live or Free, Gnome or KDE? Do you encounter this problen when you mount from the live CD? And did you have a chance to update your programs? I saw that after installation of 2008.0 a new OO version was found in the repos.

Mandriva One KDE.

I did accept an update off the repo.

How do I install off the Live CD?

I recently installed Mandriva 2008 and went into Open Office for the first time.

All the menus are in Greek !!!

I can't do a thing.

I tried an uninstall/reinstall but that did not help.

Anyone else have this problem?

How do I fix it?

Thanks,

Install this package kdmtheme. Then open your KDE Control Centre go to System Administration you will see KDM Theme Manager. You can use that to install and change your login manager themes. No need to unpack the theme first, just select the downloaded theme tar file with the KDM Theme Manager and away you go. :)

Thanks, I'm good now. No one pointed out the KDE Theme Manager before. As a newbie to Linux I get confused by terms be used for different things: two Control Centers (Mandriva + KDE) and now two theme managers (KDE + KDM).

I appreciate the help.

OK,

AussieJohn's instructions got me to the point where a user list appears (THANKS).

But is in nothing fancy. I did find a theme I like.

So I downloaded a theme, untar'd it, and moved the folder to /usr/share/themes

But how do I change the login manager theme?

If I go the Mandriva Control Center and get to "Set Up Boot Graphical Theme" the pulldown menu

has only one selection - Mandriva-One

If I go the the KDE Control Center and get to System Administration / Login Manager

I see a "GUI Style" pulldown menu in the Appearance tab but it does not list the theme I downloaded.