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Personally I'm not convinced of that, but I may be wrong - time will tell... ;-) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Your right--running Winbook XL laptop with 128 mb ram and 3 GB hard drive (without Windoze). I eliminated Open Office from Office Aps and added KOffice. Works fine--except for the eth0 problem which I get around with a script! Also--I'm running KDE 3.2 with Mandrake 10.

Here's some things to try with M10-O! You say you had it working and then it says it couldn't find the card? Boot it up and enter the terminal mode from KDE. Go to SU mode in the terminal. type these commands! # modprobe yenta_socket # /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart This assumes you have a wireless card in a pcmcia slot! # lsmod To see if yenta_socket is indeed running. ping your gateway if success, your in The bad news is it will probably not find the card again when it reboots. The good news is--there is a fix for auto detecting the card at boot! I'll post here when I find it. Just keep entering the above commands until then!

Here's a couple of things that may help. I have the 5 cd Power Pack as a Mandrake Silver member. When you install from CDs--watch out that programs are deselected on the right--this has been known to cause problems ie--server programs on laptops. Also, if you have office programs as a whole selected--you may have problems if M10 thinks your going to connect to a palm pilot ie it may try to install these programs--and give you a bunch of these errors. Solution: Check individual programs and make sure that the ones checked are not going to interfere with your laptop. Also you'll find that when you move to the Linux world on Mandrake with K3B you'll kiss goodbye to those lousy Windoze CD burning escapades. You'll actually see the MD5sum appear on the K3b screen so you can match it with the file download for review. For example, if you download an iso named mandrake_cd1.iso and the md5sum file is mandrakde_cd1_md5.txt. You just have to a txt edit on the txt file in one desktop pager window on Mandrake and compare the reading to what k3b has in its sum bar. If they match--go forth to a better world! I usually stay away from checking any of the programs on the right side of the install (server programs)--if I'm installing a laptop. Cheers!

Just got a new computer with dual 30 GB drives and the letest and greatest AMD 64 processor! Features of Hardware: 1. ASUS K8V Deluxe motherboard and chipsets VIA K8T800 VIA VT8237 2. 3 Com 3C940 Gbit Lan controller 3. South Bridge Controller supporting 2 x UtltraATA 133 connectors. 2 x SATA with RAID 0, RAID 1 4. Promise R20378 RAID controller 1 x UltraDMA 133 supports 2 hard drives 2 x Serial ATA connectors RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 configurations 5. 3 Gb unbufferred ECC ram populated with 1 stick of 512 Mb 6. ADI AD1980 SoundMax 6-channel audio CODEC support for S/PDIF out interface. 7. 8 USB 2.0 ports 8. 1 x AGP 8X/4X 5 x PCI 1 x WiFi slot 9. Scalable Hyper-Transport Bus My questions: 1. Will the AMD 64 bit processor (simultaneous 32/64 bit capable) work with Mandrake 10 and what limitations will it have? 2. Has anyone run the newest Postgresql 7.4 on this type of architecture and are you having any problems? 3. Has the rpm add/remove packaging been incorporated under a single softwre module? 4. Can I use my same Mandrake Club membership to download and install this software? 5. Does the above nomenclature fit the raid requirements for Mandrake 10? 6. Does Mandake 10 have any problems associated with CDroms on installation? 7. Should all 32 bit software still run without a hitch? 8. Is anyone running the same hardware above with Mdk 10? 9. Will my sound and video (built into MB) work correctly? 10 What is the advantage of going with the new kernel as default as far as software goes? ie Will this be worth upgrading from Mandrake9.2 for faster aps, kde 3.2 and whatever the other improvements are? Appreciate any incite into my situation!

Okay, mine shows the following: main contrib plf updates and three mirrors I use from the Mandrake Club download site. and a local directory /var/lib/urpmi that isn't working with it's hdlist. This may be the problem. Is there a central hdlist that I'm missing that has all the packages I've installed that needs to be restored. Something like the rpmpkgs list in /var/log? Or do I have to go back in and do what the url in post #2 suggests and restore with scripts? I hope that isn't the case. The other thing is that I can see hdlists for all of the above but how do I use this information to reload if you will my database. I don't see how it could use the info above to do that since it would need my hdlists---I would presume. And where is the original hdlist that I created--I hope- when I did the installation? Hope this turns out to be easier than I think! Oh, one other thing, I created a new /var/lib/rpm and it seems to have put some files in there but all of them lack of any size when one considers I have 1000 + programs installed.

I entered this on the software discussion as well, but in hopes that I could get more gurus involved--I'm entering it here too! To begin with, I found a url with exactly the same problem I'm having with a tentative solution as far as Red Hat. Now I need to figure out if there's anything I can do with urpmi to get me out of my current predicament. Here's the scenario from the url and the Red Hat solution based on rpm http://www.daylate.com/blog/archives/2003_02.html Below is the jist of what it says: RPM Database Crash It was an interesting weekend. I planned on updating the RPM packages on the system over the weekend using Red-Carpet. However, it indicated there weren't any packages to update, which I knew was wrong. I did some checking and it appeared that my RPM database was corrupted. The solution to that seemed to be running rpm --rebuilddb. That rebuilds the database from the header files stored on the computer. Well...do you know what happens if your headers are also corrupted? You end up with a database of RPM's significantly smaller than you had before. Fortunately for me RedHat outputs to a log file (/var/log/rpmpkgs) the current packages installed. After rebuilding my database I compared it with the log file. The rebuilt database was about 1/5 the size. What this means is my rebuilt database was missing 4/5 of the RPM's I had installed on my system. Everythings was still installed and ran fine but I knew I'd run into dependency problems and such if I ever wanted to update my packages or install a new package. So...basically I was left with the task of rebuilding my entire RPM database. Which, according to the rpmpkgs log file was around 800 packages. WHAT A MESS. However, after a few hours I came up with a pretty slick way to do it. I wrote a simple bash script to read through the rpmpkgs log file, download the package from the RedHat distribution and then add it to the database. Here's the script I used: #!/bin/bash exec < rpmpkgs.1 exec > zoutput.txt while read line do wget ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/8.0/en...RPMS/$line rpm -iv --nodeps --justdb --noscripts --force --notriggers $line done I used the rpmfind website instead of ftp.redhat.com cause it seemed to have more bandwidth. Anyway, I let this run over night. Then wrote another script to determine which packages it couldn't find. Basically it was just a script to figure out which files it couldn't find. I stored these in a file called znotfound.txt. Then I used that file as my input file (instead of rpmpkgs.1) and used the same script to scan the Red-Carpet cache of packages I had on my system (I installed all packages in the Red-Carpet cache first). Anyway, here's the script (basically just as simple as the previous): #!/bin/bash exec < znotfound.txt exec > znotfound2.txt while read line do if ! test -e $line then echo $line fi done Basically all this does is check to see if the RPM file exists. After running these scripts I was left with 5 packages that were sill missing. NOT BAD! I can handle installing 5 packages manually, 800 is another thing. After all was said and done I ran rpm -Va to verify the packages installed. Everything looked good. No missing dependencies or conflicts. I think I'll start adding the RPM database directory (/var/lib/rpms) to my backup script. ADDENDUM: I still haven't been able to figure out what caused the corruption in the first place, which has me concerned. We did have a couple power outages recently which sent the machine down hard so maybe that had something to do with it. I dunno...all the more reason to get a server I can colocate at a data center. Unfortunately I can't seem to find a colocation price that is as cheap as just hooking it up to my DSL line . --------------------------------------------------------So back to my problem: Does anyone out there know of a way to get Mandrake's rpm database back without having to do the script diddies above? Does the urpmi do essentially the same thing--and if so--what's the command to get my database back. I have the same problem as the person above--but with Mandrake and not Red Hat. For those who say--just change the ftp sites--that probably won't work. Is there a simpler way than above to get the same results? All gurus welcome! This post has been edited by javabiz on Mar 10 2004, 02:27 AMrestoration.

Still working on this problem and I found a similar situation at the following url. http://www.daylate.com/blog/archives/2003_02.html Below is the jist of what it says: RPM Database Crash It was an interesting weekend. I planned on updating the RPM packages on the system over the weekend using Red-Carpet. However, it indicated there weren't any packages to update, which I knew was wrong. I did some checking and it appeared that my RPM database was corrupted. The solution to that seemed to be running rpm --rebuilddb. That rebuilds the database from the header files stored on the computer. Well...do you know what happens if your headers are also corrupted? You end up with a database of RPM's significantly smaller than you had before. Fortunately for me RedHat outputs to a log file (/var/log/rpmpkgs) the current packages installed. After rebuilding my database I compared it with the log file. The rebuilt database was about 1/5 the size. What this means is my rebuilt database was missing 4/5 of the RPM's I had installed on my system. Everythings was still installed and ran fine but I knew I'd run into dependency problems and such if I ever wanted to update my packages or install a new package. So...basically I was left with the task of rebuilding my entire RPM database. Which, according to the rpmpkgs log file was around 800 packages. WHAT A MESS. However, after a few hours I came up with a pretty slick way to do it. I wrote a simple bash script to read through the rpmpkgs log file, download the package from the RedHat distribution and then add it to the database. Here's the script I used: #!/bin/bash exec < rpmpkgs.1 exec > zoutput.txt while read line do wget ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/8.0/en...RPMS/$line rpm -iv --nodeps --justdb --noscripts --force --notriggers $line done I used the rpmfind website instead of ftp.redhat.com cause it seemed to have more bandwidth. Anyway, I let this run over night. Then wrote another script to determine which packages it couldn't find. Basically it was just a script to figure out which files it couldn't find. I stored these in a file called znotfound.txt. Then I used that file as my input file (instead of rpmpkgs.1) and used the same script to scan the Red-Carpet cache of packages I had on my system (I installed all packages in the Red-Carpet cache first). Anyway, here's the script (basically just as simple as the previous): #!/bin/bash exec < znotfound.txt exec > znotfound2.txt while read line do if ! test -e $line then echo $line fi done Basically all this does is check to see if the RPM file exists. After running these scripts I was left with 5 packages that were sill missing. NOT BAD! I can handle installing 5 packages manually, 800 is another thing. After all was said and done I ran rpm -Va to verify the packages installed. Everything looked good. No missing dependencies or conflicts. I think I'll start adding the RPM database directory (/var/lib/rpms) to my backup script. ADDENDUM: I still haven't been able to figure out what caused the corruption in the first place, which has me concerned. We did have a couple power outages recently which sent the machine down hard so maybe that had something to do with it. I dunno...all the more reason to get a server I can colocate at a data center. Unfortunately I can't seem to find a colocation price that is as cheap as just hooking it up to my DSL line :). --------------------------------------------------------So back to my problem: Does anyone out there know of a way to get Mandrake's rpm database back without having to do the script diddies above? Does the urpmi do essentially the same thing--and if so--what's the command to get my database back. I have the same problem as the person above--but with Mandrake and not Red Hat. For those who say--just change the ftp sites--that probably won't work. Is there a simpler way than above to get the same results? All gurus welcome!

The only rpm info that I can see is /var/log/rpmpkgs Can this be used for anything? I have tried rpm --rebuilddb with no luck and even rpm --initdb It comes up with a file lock in /var/lib/rpm (but this directory doesn't exist) I have tried a few urpm commands to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Has anyone out there successfully upgraded to perl-5.8.3-5mdk.i586.rpm for Mandrake 9.2? I tried it and got a dependency list sooooo long I was afraid to install it. But without it I don't have a complete deck of cards with postgresql 7.4.1 and mysql 4.17. Is there a way to do this and still know that it will work in the end? I could put the dependencies on here--but it takes up alot of space! Any clues?

Just download the drakwizard rpm and install it. Logout of kde and log back in. Now check out your MCC for the new SERVER CONFIGURATION topic (last line). Install samba from there!

On the next installation of mandrakeX.X I install Opera first and foremost and copy two files from the backup CD (notes.adr and operaX.adr) to /home/me/.opera and bingo I will have all the stuff I will have forgot in my notes right beside my browser window which is of course going to be on this website when I'm doing this Besides, the problem I was having kept showing my error message on the updates even though there was no file to delete in /var/lib/urpmi with that name-please read my above post again. Your deleting of this file wasn't possible because it didn't exist. I had to create a fake file with the same name in order for the system to delete it. It could be the initial filename is hard coded (ugh) in the install and then when it goes to update it changes it unless the file can't be found then it gives the error message over and over--even though it does update with the new stuff!

Before I say anything, do the following (assumes kde gui) 1. Open konqueror. 2. Go to opera.com and select download. 3. Pick the static for Linux at the bottom selection. 4. Download from Sweden or Switzerland sunsite ftp. 5. Select open to have konq uncompress in its archive screen. 6. Select path under your home. 7. Close konq 8. Click on your console 9. cd opera* 10. type ./install.sh 11. answer y to the two questions 12. close the console 13. From your desktop right click new-->application 14. Click on execute and browse to /home/yourhome/operadirectory/bin 15. Select opera (executable) 16. Select General tab and select O from application icons. 17. Edit box under General tab to read Opera.desktop 18. Click ok 19. Click on Opera icon and click start 20. Three things that will help you out here: a. right click on the panel below File Edit .... where you see home icon and select skin and click on special effects and then get skins: Here are the ones I have: Azac 1.3.zip Epidermis.zip Occhi blu (1).zip -) (Smile).zip Azur 1.3.zip IE6XP Native.zip Occhi blu 4 XP.zip Sofa King.zip bright_striped.zip iMacOS Lars - Metal Edition.zip Occhi blu.zip TobsTheatre 2.zip Circuito (1).zip iMacOS Lars.zip Opera-Wonderland.zip Tobs Theatre iron.zip Circuito.zip Khrome.zip Phoenity 2.8.zip Tobs Theatre light.zip Cocoa Native.zip KonquerOrPERA 1.6.zip Phoenity Redux.zip Tobs Theatre paper.zip Cocoa.zip MacOSX Grey - Metal Edition.zip Qute Native.zip WindowsXP 2003.zip coolOS v2.2.zip MacOSX Grey.zip SlateXP.zip XPmixup.zip Do a search on these names and pick the one you want--select it and it will install automatically! b. In Opera after installing the skin you want click on the star shaped icon to the right of home icon. You'll notice to the left of your browser you have Bookmarks, Contacts, History, Transfers, Links, Windows and Notes. Click on View and set to split view. Your probably asking at this point or at the first-WHAT's THIS GOT TO DO WITH MandrakeUsers.org and installation? Here's why: The bookmarks on Opera are outstanding but the the Notes selection will help you with immediate cut and paste for all those long Linux console commands and you can organinze anything in this little honey from books to command lines. For example: Click on notes. Click on New Folder--and type URPMI. Now highlight all this screen and right click--select Copy Note and you now have a line that starts with "Before I say anything..." Left click and drag over the folder name you created. Left click on the folder name if you don't see the note in the lower split screen and select it until you do. Highlight any command line in this note and right click and choose copy. Click on your console icon on the task bar and press the right hand corner middle box to midimize the screen so you can see Opera in the background (if your console is set up with a transparent background-this looks really cool--you see your wallpaper in the console-subdued while Opera is in the max mode)-- press your middle mouse key when the mouse is next to the prompt. Bingo---you have immediate command entry. Don't hit enter though--just backspace the command to the prompt--this is nothing but a demo not the real thing--hate to have you wipe out something you may not understand yet! c. Now the next thinig--for those who are saying--yah but what about this ad that appears in the right hand corner of Opera. Go to the desktop and add as many desks as you desire (I have eight) Download some cool wallpaper from kde-look.org. Now after you have these wallpapers in each desktop background-I have eight--cover the Opera ad by right clicking on your Session Boxes on the Task Bar and Launching Pager. Drag and size pager to fit exactly over the ad. Side note: To scroll in the browser--press your middle scroll button. Now for the URPMI and RPM problem. First of all, thanks to kuchwas above for the following: In the meantime, try this when you update your media: WARNING!: Don't do this yet. "urpmi.update -a -c -f --no-md5sum --wget" -a = all media -c = clear header cache -f = force --no-md5sum = ignore md5sum files on local machine and mirror, just sync them --wget = use wget protocol (far more robust than curl) Original Problem: I get "no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.2 (ftp1u)] exists" after running from console "urpmi.update -a -c -f --no-md5sum --wget" I get the same thing! How do I get my file called list.Updates back in the path /var/lib/urpmi/ and how did it disappear in the first place. Without it, rpmdrake and the two commands listed think that there's nothing to update. "unable to take medium "Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.2 (ftp1u)" into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.2 (ftp1u)] exists" As I found out this is really no big deal and will keep appearing (if you lost your update file) every time you do an update with urpmi from the command line. If this annoys you do this: 1. Go to /var/lib/urpmi 2. As su from the command line create the file list.Update with vi as su. Note: You can use kate for the gui folks--but right click on kate and click on Properties. Then click on Execute and check the box for run as other user and type r and return in the user name for root. Now you can edit the file /var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates 3. In vi or kate type anything in the file-one word like garbage and save it with the filename list.Updates. 4. Go to /etc/urpmi and type the following: cp urpmi.cfg urpmi.bak This backs up your list of 8 cds info that you can see by going into MCC (Mandrake Control Center) and selecting Software Management--->Softeware Media Manager This step is important because if you have the first 3 CDs from a download or from mandrakeclub.com---you may decide to get the Power Pack at a later date. So this backups your original install cd info and keeps you from losing the info in urpmi.cfg when you do the update db and urpmi commands. 5. Go to http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php pick the following for main, contrib, plf and updates: (Select from choices--hint: you have to click on the numbers in order to advance and see what is in the black box! For main: urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions...6/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz For contrib: urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions....2/contrib/i586 with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz For plf (Penguin Liberation Front): urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://mandrake-forum.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/9.2 with hdlist.cz For updates: urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions...dates/9.2/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz If you downloaded Opera, click New Folder from Notes section and highlight the black box (If you clicked on the step buttons--you should have all the above info in the box) :^). Right click and Copy Note. Now drag note name over the folder name. Now you can copy and paste to the console as described above--each section of the notes (Should be 4) and run them one by one until all your urpmi sites are loaded. HINTS: Your Opera Notes to the left of the browser window can be expanded--mouse to the vertical line and you will see two arrows--left click and make any width you want. One more thing , hover the mouse over a note line in the top view window. You should see a box with some of your note on it! This gives you a quick view of your note. Note: I live in US MST zone so I found out by trial and error that the US sites are very busy during the day. I have had very good luck with the above sites, however, since European time is normally at night when I'm doing this during the day. Hope this helps--I still use Konqueror, Mozilla and Galeon--but my bookmark file is 13 MB and the notes file already has notes on three books and several command lines as well. I love Opera and have used it for four years now. You also can use History, Transfers and Links to help you out. The question on the key comparison didn't seem to come up when I added these new download sites--so hopefully that is solved. Or like kuchwas suggested the --no-md5sum keeps this from being a factor on updates. Now just highlight and right click on this command to copy notes and you will always have access to it: urpmi.update -a -c -f --no-md5sum --wge Hope this helps! Thanks for everyones help

I had the next message entered twice so go to next message for rpm problem below. I almost lost the message because I was entering it in this entry box. It wouldn't add it to the post so I copied it to OO and tried to use the text doc to paste back in here. It wouldn't work I had to copy to kate and from kate I pasted to the next post. Cheers!

I just checked back in and was surprised to find some replies to the rpmupdate delema! I have since done much work on the problem and hope to post what I found out. I learned a few things about URPMI that I didn't know before! Thanks all for your time and trouble and I mainly found out that this is a super place to get help with Mandrake.

New to this forum. Problem is with rpm updates. A couple of questions. 1. I have downloaded and installed Mdk 9.2 and everything seems to be working fine. I'm using the kde gui and trying to update with rpmdrake under MCC. Yesterday I was able to donwload some updates but not all of Security files and today I got two or three bug fixes downloaded. I seem to have a problem with some of the keys not matching and it asks me if I want to install anyway and I say No. I've also had alot of problems with different sites locking on the downloads. 2. Some how rpmdrake has lost a hdlist file for the updates and now everytime I try it I get the message--"The list of updates is void. This means that either there is no available update for the packages on your computer (which I know is wrong) or you already installed all of them (which is also wrong). I know the files I need to update because I wrote them down from a previous download (about 20 files). My second question is how do I get my outstanding update list back into the loop and how do I get rid of the key errors in 1 above. When I run the command " urpmi.update -a" I get "no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.2 (ftp1u)] exists" after running from console "urpmi.update -a -c -f --no-md5sum --wget" I get the same thing! How do I get my file called list.Updates back in the path /var/lib/urpmi/ and how did it disappear in the first place. Without it, rpmdrake and the two commands listed think that there's nothing to update. Arguments to the urpmi command above: Note: When the original problem occurred I was using rpmdrake in the gui and not the command line which utilizes the below args. where -a = all media -c = clear header cache -f = force --no-md5sum = ignore md5sum files on local machine and mirror, just sync them --wget = use wget protocol (far more robust than curl)