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If you are using compiz, press Alt+F2 and use this command:

compiz-window-decorator --replace

Smplayer is a GUI of mplayer.

You seem to be running out of free space on your / root partition , that's why urpmi can't install anything. What's the output of this in terminal:

df

In my defence I wanna say that the OP said 3,7GB, so I was talking about that too when I said he needs kernel-desktop.

I think Jim nailed it. He asked if you have Contrib not Contrib/updates :) , When adding the repos it's good practice to have both contrib and contrib/updates etc... the list that Greg2 posted (just above my post).

Starting from 2009.0 anacron is installed and run by default.

Press Alt+Ctrl+F1, log in as root. Then load

drak3d

it'll say your desktop doesn't support 3d desktop effects (it says this because the procedure drak3d uses to check if your system supports 3d desktop can't work in console mode). Just choose OK and press enter. Then just restart the machine, Alt+Ctrl+Delete , see if this works.

Uninstall libflashsupport as angst said. Also a security issue was found with r12 and an update has been issued by Adobe, flash player 10 r15.

Two different problems here. For the audio cds: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Errata#...digital_mode.29

As for the video could you try smplayer or vlc. If they don't work then try playing the video with mplayer from terminal:

mplayer filename.avi

And post the all the output you get in the terminal.

I think Jim got it right.

Yep, what arctic said. You need kernel-desktop- not kernel-desktop586-

BTW kernel-laptop has been dropped starting from 2009.0 . All the tweaks it offered have been either integrated in kernel-desktop or discarded as they were not important any more.

If you hibernated then booted Linux then the system will definitely refuse to mount the ntfs partition.

logrotate is installed by default in Mandriva, this has been the case in 2008.0, 2008.1 and 2009.0 (don't know about older releases since 2008.0 was the first Mandriva I ever used). I think the more important utility is anacron. The cron jobs are run by default at 4:01am every day and there's a cron job that rotates the logs and compresses old logs to save disk space. If your machine was not running at this time then the cron job won't run and here comes anacron. anacron checks your system and runs any cron jobs that weren't run because the system was not up.

I don't think draksnapshot is the culprit here except if you don't have a separate /home partition.

Boot the machine, press Alt+Ctrl+F1, log in as root, then use this command:

du -akx / | sort -nr | head -n 50

It should list the biggest 50 files/folders in the root partition and that should give you a clue what ate up the disk space on the root partition. Also the output of df would be useful.

First of all, change /mnt back to /media or make sure then in /mnt there are folders that has the same names as the mount points of the drives.

By all means try what ffi said. If an ntfs partition is flagged as dirty due to an improper shutdown in windows then a check disk is in order, or just boot them into windows and then shut down properly.

Also try edit fstab and change user to defaults in each of the ntfs-3g lines.

What's the output of:

rpm -qa | grep amarok

Also try renaming

~/.kde4/share/apps/amarok

~/.kde4/share/config/amarok-appletsrc

~/.kde4/share/config/amarok_homerc

~/.kde4/share/config/amarokrc

to anything (or just cut them an put them somewhere else), then start amarok and see what happens.

Open FF and in the address bar go to about:plugins , are the plugins listed there?

You might consider enabling Antialiasing in the kde control centre, also try changing the hinting style to full, you can also try increasing the DPI of the system.

BTW the .tar.bz2 file you get from the firefox web site doesn't need installing at all. You just extract it and double click the file named "firefox" or open a terminal, navigate to the extracted folder and use this command:

./firefox

You can create a Link to Application and point it to the firefox file in the extracted folder.

Oh, my. I never thought you are using an old version of FF. Well, hope what Greg posted solves your problem.

BTW the kde4 package of quanta is an empty (dummy) package. I think quanta hasn't been ported to kde4 yet, I might be wrong of course about the porting part but I am certain the quanta package in kde4 is an empty package : )

A shot in the dark, as root in terminal:

su

chown -R user: /home/user/.mozilla

replace user with your actual user name.

After deleting .xsession-errors reboot, a new file with the same name will be created. Now see what's its size after an hour or so of operation. If the size is growing monstrously then just deleting it won't work. Best way is to try and see what's causing so many errors in the file.

Something else, in /home you only have your user folder or other folders as well, for other users?

I think you should use

du -akx /home | sort -nr | head -n 100

BTW the output is in bytes so 200GB would look like this 200,000,000 .

The tool you need to uninstall is draksnapshot not ksnapshot (ksnapshot takes screen shots of the screen creating pics : ) )

What's the output of this run in terminal:

du -akx /home/user | sort -nr | head -n 100

replace user with your actual user name.

The problem was only with the Nvidia proprietary driver (it was resolved with nvidia package updates). The ATI proprietary driver should work with the server kernel. Still if this is a desktop then kernel-desktop is more suitable for you. The desktop kernel is less aggressive than the server kernel (kernel-sever is, well, more suitable for servers). You are correct the installer installs kernel-server if you have 4GB+ of RAM.

We need to know the resolutions supported by your monitor, either check the manual or the output of this command:

su
monitor-edid

Can you try adding a specific mirror? in the Mandriva control centre>s/w management>configure media sources press Alt+A. Or use easyurpmi but click the two manual selection links.

Press scroll lock.