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He's running Mandriva One 2009 with KDE 4.1 (from first paragraph, third sentence).

Ooops, missed this one, my bad :s

I don't know if you are the same guy who posted an identical post at forum.mandriva.com so just in case:

Open a terminal (aka konsole), press Alt+F2, type konsole and hit enter. Next use these commands as user (not as root):

kquitapp plasma
rm -fv ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma*
plasma &

(Just copy the three lines and paste them in terminal then hit enter for the last command).

What version of KDE are you running? I have an idea if it's kde 4.2.x

Yep. Just make sure to install GRUB on the MBR of the Mandriva HD. And if the windows driver is present at set up then the Installer will add windows automatically to the GRUB menu. (if this doesn't happen then you can add it manually like you said).

If you your own user account then no one can access your files except you and root. And you could lock the screen when you get away from the machine (if you are not shutting down the machine). That's not the answer you were looking for but ....

tux_man: yes it should work but it seems his machine is stuck on a dead mirror.

Try this: close firefox then rename .mozilla in your /home/username folder to .mozilla-old and try again.

He should select manual selection in easyurpmi too, the mirrorlist is choosing a bad mirror for him.

Try adding a specific mirror, open the Mandriva control centre>s/w management>configure media sources, press Ctrl+A.

Yeah, Ian is right, it might just be a case of a stale mirror. The file is in /var/cache/urpmi/mirrors.cache . So as root in terminal:

su
rm -fv /var/cache/urpmi/mirrors.cache

If it still doesn't work then post the exact error message here.

Both http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list and http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.x86_64.list seem to work, at least they open in a browser.

See if anything here helps you: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Installin...or_the_Internet

In the link I posted the problem is when the user is trying to load the Save as dialogue. It's not beagle but libbeagle1 which you probably still have installed and can't uninstall it, it takes a lot of important system packages with it.

I think the MIRRORLIST was down, however it's up now. BTW it's http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.$arch.list and $arch should be either i586 or x86_64.

Can you load them from terminal and see if there are any useful messages when this happens?

EDIT: maybe it's this bug: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Errata#...ed_applications

Did you set up the online repositories? http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tas...tions_available

I think beagle is the culprit in the "slowness" case. Install and run htop, and see what's consuming the CPU or RAM. If it's beagle (and system indexing and search tool) and you don't need it then uninstall it.

For the removable drive icon on the desktop open system>preferences>configuration editor. Then expand apps>nautilus>desktop , uncheck volumes_visible .

I think Alt+Ctrl+Esc works only in KDE. For Gnome, install xkill the press Alt+F2 and launch it, or launch it from terminal. There's also an applet "Force Quit" that you can add to the panel.

File a bug on it at https://qa.mandriva.com/index.cgi

Maybe it's not udev that's taking a long time. When you reach the GRUB menu, press F2, type this at the end of the command line that appears, then hit enter:

nopinit

See if it hangs at something else other than udev.

Another grumble is a message that pops up several times about there being USB devices available for backing up. It stops doing that after a while, so that's really no big deal.

If you don't need it, uninstall draksnapshot .

KDE4.2 becomes available in the repositories.

KDE4.2 will be available in 2009.1, which will hopefully be released in April.

Still, just out of curiosity, if anyone knows a way to manually configure the servers to which the package manager synchronizes, I'll be happy to hear.

To add a specific mirror instead of using the MIRRORLIST, open the Mandriva control centre>s/w management>configure media sources>File>Add media , or press Ctrl+A.

I think you need kdebase4-runtime . So install it and try again. smb4k is looking for /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu which is part of kdebase4-runtime .

A work around:

urpmi --auto-update -v --skip /^cups-drivers/

The bug in MandrivaUpdate is known and I only saw it in 2009.0, you deselect a package but it gets selected all the same when you hit Update.

Alternatively you can update using rpmdrake by selecting All Updates from the drop down list on the left, then go through the categories, and in each one "select all" except the one you don't want to update.

Yes, the test is known to fail sometimes also the driver has been installed correctly.

Great it's working now : )