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Mandriva 2008 KDE

Can the look of the login screen be configured?

Specifically I would like all the user accounts be listed and selectable.

Maybe even with icons ala Windows.

I'm not interested in the Windows switch user capability.

Just simply list the user accounts instead of the blank entry for username.

Thanks,

I also tried unmask=0

That didn't work either.

I reverted back to a regular read-only NTFS install

I followed the release note instructions. Got no errors and restarted. But it doesn't seem to mount as I cannot see it from konqueror, even after I go into the Mandriva Control Center and mount it.

Here is the relevent line from my fstab:

Thanks for all the help.

With these various tips I was able to set things straight.

I had Mandriva 2008 installed and running fine for about a day.

Suddenly my KDE panel disappeared.

I had it placed at the bottom of my desktop and set to go into hide mode.

Now whenever I start a session I get a quick flash of the panel but placing my cursor at

the bottom does not bring the panel back.

What should I do ?

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I was not sure if I was to hit esc at the screen where I have the option of selecting the OS to boot or at the screen after I had selected Mandriva 2008.

I did the first and hit OK at message window saying I am entering text only mode. Then hit esc but nothing happened so I selected Mandriva to boot.

This time it booted with no problem. I was able to finish the install (config wireless, root password, user account etc). When do I did a restart and tried the graphical boot loader again. It boots with no problem. It seems that I am alright now! :thanks:

I started Mandriva 2008 in LiveCD mode. No problems.

Started Live Install

I got to the part where it says to restart machine and remove the Live CD.

I did this.

I got the boot loader screen showing Mandriva 2008 and Windows XP (default per my selection and on a different hard drive)

I selected Mandriva 2008 and got to the screen with the progress bar.

The boot freezes.

I hit escape for the verbose mode and this is what I get:

setting default font [ok]

configuring kernel parameters [ok]

setting clock (local time) [ok]

starting udev: wait timeout. Will continue in the background [FAILED]

What should I do now? My WinXP will boot but I suppose I can only get into linux via Live CD.

As I posted, doing partition changes is always better prior to installing, and not during installation.

When you reboot, and try start up again, what happens? Also, I would boot into windows just to check it out! ;)

Windows boots fine.

The Madriva boot freezes.

I hit escape for the verbose mode and this is what I get:

setting default font [ok]

configuring kernel parameters [ok]

setting clock (local time) [ok]

starting udev: wait timeout. Will continue in the background [FAILED]

Here is what I've done.

I started Mandriva 2008 in LiveCD mode

Started Live Install

I resized the hd6 partition to shrink it by 12 GB

From the new free 12GB space I created a new partition for Mandriva 2008

It looks like it got called hd7

The bootloader install did not seem to recognize Mandriva 2007.1

I got to the part where it says to restart machine and remove the Live CD.

I did this.

I got the boot loader screen showing Mandriva 2008 and Windows XP (default)

I selected Mandriva 2008 and got to the screen with the progress bar.

The boot freezes.

I hit escape for the verbose mode and this is what I get:

setting default font [ok]

configuring kernel parameters [ok]

setting clock (local time) [ok]

starting udev: wait timeout. Will continue in the background [FAILED]

What should I do now? I suppose my WinXP will boot but I suppose I can only get into linux via Live CD.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Hello,

I have a 2 hard disk system with WinXP on hda and Mandriva 2007.1 KDE on hdb.

I had some problems upgrading to 2008 and I want to take a new approach.

I would like to add Mandriva 2008 on hdb so that I can boot either 2007.1 and 2008.

I would also like to have a partition for keeping files that can be mounted/accessed by either 2007.1 and 2008

If I go into the Mandriva Control Center I get this info on the hdb partitions:

Mount point /

Device: hdb1

Type: Journalised FS: ext3

Size: 7.8GB (2%)

mounted

Mount point swap

Device: hdb5

Type: Linux swap

Size: 3.6GB (1%)

Mounted

Device: hdb6

Type: Journalized FS: ext3

Size: 267GB (95%)

Note that hdb6 is not mounted. This is noticeable from Konqueror too.

If in Konqueror I go to System -> Storage Media then I see

160G Media and 8.4G Media where the 1st is WinXP hda and the 2nd is hdb.

I wonder why the generic install of Mandriva didn't mount hdb6.

Anyways, I would appreciate any recommendations on how to proceed.

You need to manually unlock the database.

This is a good way to do it.

If you follow these instructions explicitly, you'll do fine.

That's the ticket!

THANKS

:D

"a fatal error ocurred: urpmi database locked"

I get this when I open Rpmdrake. No other apps are running.

How do I fix this?

Thanks, Jose

BTW, running 2007.1 KDE

Why should you need the boot.iso to go from 2007.1 to 2008.0?

Just login to your existing installation normally. Now, use root konsole/ easyurpmi to change all your urpmi repos to 2008.0 ones.

Then do a "sudo telinit 3", log in at runlevel 3 as root, and then the usual

urpmi --auto-select

And then wait... wait... wait! :D

Originally, I did change the repositories from 2007.1 to 2008.0 and used the package manager to udpate. There were about 1300+ packages to install. I was also wirelessly connected to my router (probably not a smart thing in hindsight). It got to about all but 30 packages when the wireless stopped working. So I shutdown the computer and moved it to a room with an ethernet plug. When I started the PC I got a Mandriva 2008 boot screen but when I selected Mandriva 2008 KDE did not start. All I got was a terminal window. So I logged in. su'd to root and did the urpmi --auto-select thing. It started to work but crashed. Curious, I restarted. KDE does start but not working properly. I do not get the frames that let me minimize/maximize/drag the open windows. Here is my package manager errors:

Any ideas? I must just do a fresh install from a CD. But I prefer to avoid that.

Thanks, Jose

Whilst it might seem trashed, and won't boot, you can still get at it, and run with it. Personally, I would boot with a Mandriva CD and choose rescue mode, and then chroot into my partitions, and continue where I left off.

Hi,

I am in this situation. How exactly do you chroot into the hard disk partition from the Live CD?

Thanks,

Jose

I had the capture card and MythTV working together at one time. But the cx88-dvb module was not loading automatically. If I loaded it with modprobe from a terminal window and then when into MythTV setup I could find my capture card using type DVB DTV Capture Card. And I could watch/record OTA digital TV.

Then I was told that if I added cx88-dvb to the /etc/module.preload file I would not have to load that module each time. I did so and sure enough lsmod showed the module to be there. However, this is when I started to get the "Device Busy" messages from MythTV, including from inside MythTV-setup when I tried to select the DVB DTV Capture Card type.

So I figured maybe the preload was the problem. I removed cx88-dvb from the /etc/module.preload file. And lsmod showed that the module did not load. If I load it with modprobe then I can start the backend with no problem:

[root@localhost jose]# modprobe cx88-dvb

[root@localhost jose]# mythbackend -d

2007-10-02 03:32:41.246 Using runtime prefix = /usr

2007-10-02 03:32:41.267 New DB connection, total: 1

[root@localhost jose]# 2007-10-02 03:32:41.282 Connected to database 'mc' at host: localhost

2007-10-02 03:32:41.287 Current Schema Version: 1160

Starting up as the master server.

2007-10-02 03:32:41.298 New DB connection, total: 2

2007-10-02 03:32:41.299 Connected to database 'mc' at host: localhost

2007-10-02 03:32:41.303 EITHelper: localtime offset -4:00:00

2007-10-02 03:32:41.310 New DB connection, total: 3

2007-10-02 03:32:41.317 Connected to database 'mc' at host: localhost

2007-10-02 03:32:41.349 New DB scheduler connection

2007-10-02 03:32:41.350 Connected to database 'mc' at host: localhost

2007-10-02 03:32:41.353 Main::Starting HttpServer

2007-10-02 03:32:41.362 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension

2007-10-02 03:32:41.370 mythbackend version: 0.20.20060828-4 URL:www.mythtv.org

2007-10-02 03:32:41.371 Enabled verbose msgs: important general

2007-10-02 03:32:41.371 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 138 MiB/min

2007-10-02 03:32:41.373 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 10 min

2007-10-02 03:32:43.367 Reschedule requested for id -1.

2007-10-02 03:32:43.398 Scheduled 2 items in 0.0 = 0.01 match + 0.02 place

2007-10-02 03:32:43.401 Seem to be woken up by USER

HOWEVER, now when I start the frontend I immediately get logged out of my session. So of course I cannot retrieve any logs. Any ideas?

Nope, but forcing an IRQ for it within BIOS *might* help.

My BIOS lets me toggle IRQs between Available and Reserved.

But for Reserved I found no way to tie it to a specific device.

Does the module for the card load properly?

Yes is does. I see it with lsmod.

Have you tried to seat the card at another PCI slot?

I don't have any other available slots. Do you think removing it and reinstalling would help?

Hello,

I had been able to use a HD-3000 card with MythTV before. But now I am getting errors from MythTV stating that the device is busy and cannot connect.

Can anyone help?

Thank You,

Jose

Add it by hand at /etc/modprobe.preload

THANKS :D

How do I get a module to permanently load?

Specifically I am using the "modprobe cx88-dvb" command to load the cx88-dvb module.

But after any PC restart that module is not loaded and I have to run the modprobe command again.

How do I get it to either permanently load or load automatically on start-up?

Thank You,

Jose

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So ultimately it was really a MySQL question.

I figured out that the recommended mysql commands from the MythTV user manual were essentially useless.

I was able to create the needed database by using the MySQL tutorials from this site:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/database-use.html

Now I will see if I can successfully finish the MythTV configuration.

Hi All,

One of the main reasons I am starting into Linux is to get my PC acting as a DVR.

I dropped a PcHDTV HD-3000 card into my box and installed its firmware files.

Upon boot I see that the new HD was detected. I can see it when I look at HW via

the Mandriva Control Center and noticed that KdeTV dropped a shortcut on the desktop.

So I think I am OK from a HW perspective.

Since the KdeTV was on the desktop I thought why not give it a try. (my main goal was MythTV).

KdeTV appears to see the TV card but when I open the channel wizard, I cannot

get past the first window (the next button is greyed out).

I think KdeTV is limited to analog TV though. Is this correct?

If so I know this is the wrong program to use.

PcHDTV says to use MythTV. I am trying to configure this via its wiki:

http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/User_Manu...al_Installation

I am at this part of the wiki:

Here is what I did:

So I think the 1st command worked bu the 2nd did not.

Any recommendations?

Isn't K3Bsetup removed from 2007(1), the last version of Mandy ive seen it was 2006.

A K3B Settings is there. And if you have integrated K3B with Konqueror you can get to it

via the Settings pull down menu in Konqueror with an item listed as Configure K3B.

In K3B Settings you can select Setup External Programs which includes a tab

for setting the user parameters for the various programs such as cdrecord.

I looked at the cdrecord man page and didn't find a general option for running as

another users such as root. But as I said earlier I am no longer sweating thias as it seems I am able to

record with no problems.

Your terminal command worked. Mandriva Online says my system is up to date.

After executing the terminal command I went back into the GUI and searched for a few things.

It turns out my problem is newbie user error. I figured out that it doesn't like leading wildcards.

I was giving both a leading and trailing wildcard around my search word. When I drop the leading

wildcard all is fine.

Thanks for all the help and my apologies for raising a non-issue in this forum.

IIRC, you need only run K3B once as root, and it will then set up the permissions properly and you will not need to run it as root again, and will also not get the error message anymore. It is not necessary to run K3B as root all the time, just for the initial set up - try that :)

The actual error message is:

cdrecord will be run without root privileges

It is highly recommended to configure cdrecord to run with root privileges. Only then cdrecord runs with high priority which increases the overall stability of the burning process. Apart from that it allows changing the size of the used burning buffer. A lot of user problems could be solved this way. This is also true when using SuSE's resmgr.

I ran it as root but since I previously did not run it as root I still see this message.

However I am no longer concerned. I was able to burn a DVD with no problem.

I will just select the check box that will repress this error message.