Cannonfodder

su to root and type

chown -R eric:eric *

something like that.. .

Try doing an advance google search for

"damaged header instance"

and

rpm urpmi

There's a bunch of entries on this topic. Most seem to have something to do with mismatches between rpm and db3. One mention of doing a

rpm --initdb

Let us know what you find out :)

Wonder what changed between 9.1 and 9.2 to cause this?

I was trying to rebuild my urpmi data base and I got the following error messages.

 

error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #682 retrieved, skipping. 

error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #694 retrieved, skipping.

 

I ran rebuilddb again and I didn't get the error agian. 

 

Does anybody understand this?

What were the exact commands you typed in? Did you follow the Faq?

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=4937

Do an uninstall of mplayer and memcoder. Then make sure there is no mplayer installed still by doing a

rpm -qa | grep mplayer

and even searching for any mplayer files still on the hard drive. Remove any folders created by mplayer in your personal folder.

Then do a urpmi mplayer to get it installed again.. Can't recal lif this is a plf urpmi source or just a standard mandrake..

Looks like I'm out of luck too *singing under his breath* OH WELL!

I've been using partimage for the past year.

1. You can restore to a larger partition, but not a smaller.

2. Since partimage supports many different file systems, it doesn't make sense that they try to interprete the results.

3. Get it onto a CD and things will be easier. When backing up partitions, you need the partition to be 100% free from other users and running software.

4. Might want to consder moving to a reiserfs file system. More robust and under active development. Its a journaled file system so it is very quick to restart after a crash. Other possibilities is that your hard drive is simply having hard ware issues which means its nothing to do with software.

5. Another ides is to look at how you split your partitions. Most of my partitions are approx 5 gig in size since they can be compressed into smaller files vs a 20 gig partition.

I did quite a bit of re-doing my partitions and learning about them. Lots of learning time but my understanding of partitions is much better than before..

ok.....just where were all you fine folks last night while i was on MUSB looking for help? hmmm??? :lol:

I would like to say I was in a hot tub, but...

question 1.

during the step where you can set Partimage to save your image at a predesired size, i found that i couldn't change the size, not matter what i tried. here's what i'm talking about, per the Partimage online docs...

Try typing partimage into a terminal window and read the output. It gives you a list of arguments you can type in. See if you can find a size option.

question 2.

during the stage where it's starting to copy the image, i got a message that "e2fsck has found bad blocks, do you want to continue?" again, after searching to no avail for info on that message, i opted to continue. i know about e2fsck checking the file systems for integrity & such. i just didn't know if this will make my backup unusable. there was no option to fix the bad blocks, just "continue" or "cancel". i chose "continue", for lack of a better idea. that leads me to......

Partimage is not going to be responsible for fixing your disk issue. It is simply passing on the message that e2fsck is reporting. You need to boot off of Mandrake CD1 (hit F1, type rescue, go to console and run e2fsck against the partition when it is not mounted. If the utility reports bad blocks then you will have to look for an option for correcting this, meaning the data is moved from bad blocks and they are marked as bad (maybe).

Some other ideas..

partimage can be saved as a bootable cd. Look on the website for info. This is much better than running it with mounted partitions as the CD is in control rather than the Mandrake system.

You can also create a new partition and copy an old partition to. The goal would be to format the old partition. This might take care of any unsolvable bad block issues. You would need to make sure the old and new partitions are mounted and then do a copy command

copy -pax old new (whereever)

Do the reformmat and then copy them back. This is suggested, not as a backup, but to resolve the bad blocks.

Chris

Generally the only entries you need for a home installation would be..

boot=/dev/hda

map=/boot/map

vga=normal

default="linux"

keytable=/boot/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.klt

prompt

nowarn

timeout=400

message=/boot/message

menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw

image=/boot/vmlinuz

label="linux"

root=/dev/hda9

initrd=/boot/initrd.img

append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht splash=silent"

vga=788

read-only

other=/dev/hda1

label="windows"

table=/dev/hda

Using anna's example, you can see I left behind the linux and windows entries. This means when you view lilo, you only have 2 selections. You can copy a backup of your lilo.conf with all the options in the event that you need it later.

After making changes, you need to type lilo at the prompt and look at the messages. SHould be

adding linux

adding windows

You have to edit the file /etc/lilo.conf and type lilo while logged in or su'ed as root.

Me too.. :)

If you do decide to try 9.2, one idea is to do partition backups of your old system so that you can restore it if you decide to go back to it. www.partimage.org

Regarding your firewall, could your security setting be set too high?

Hmmm, didn't think of that.. thanks!

I'm taking some online courses and the web site require the shockwave plugin. I can see there is a flash 6 plugin but do not see a shockwave 9 plugin for linux. Am I missing something or do I actually have to take all these java courses in M$?

If I ever had a cat, I would name him Pixel :) After the kitty in the Robert Heinlein novel (The cat who walks through walls)

Just remember that different devices have different jumper settings. I don't think its a standard..

Well if you can repartition /home into 2 separate partitions, you can use one of the new partitions as /var instead.. just update your /etc/fdisk file to reflect the change..

Correction: /etc/fdisk is actually /etc/fstab Thanks BVC you old hound!

I haven't verified this, but from nano's man page

from nano's man page:

-w (--nowrap)

Disable wrapping of long lines.

You can also try other editors such as kedit. There's a whole slew of them..

Unless you have a backup, you are screwed. Note to the wise, backups are always a good deal. Second note, before messing with users or any important "system" areas, backup, even a temp copy of the directory is a good idea.

What you can do is delete your user and your user group with userdrake and then recreate it from scratch. Remove any folders you may have made for yourself after you deleted yourself. Then recreate the user.

Cant you find the window's shape in the toolbar and drag it to another workspace?

localhost gconfd (jimmy-3217): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0

Could the problem be permissions related? In this I mean, it requires a read-write solution to this file and is unable to update it?

Opera has had mouse gestures for a long long time. If you go to the File/Preferences and select Mouse/Keyboard, you can programmatically change the mouse and keyboard behaviors and even create new one's base on an idea you have..

Not yet! :D

The best way to work with lilo (in my opinion) is to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file.

Look in the mandrake menu for a terminal (or console) program.

Type

su <-- will be prompted for root password

cd /etc

cp lilo.conf lilo.bkup

gedit lilo.conf

If gedit doesn't work, you can try kedit or some other editor you are accustomed to using.

The terminal console is the true power behind linux. From there you can directly access issues that otherwise would require you to go through another piece of software such as mcc.

Also, in the console, try typing

diskdrake and click ok on the prompt.

You should see a visual map of your hard drives. Don't make any changes, just good to help you understand how your hard drives are partitioned.

Here's a copy of my lilo.conf if it helps.. In my case, I have 2 physical hard drives, each with multiple partitions.

boot=/dev/hda 

map=/boot/map 

vga=normal 

default="Mandrake91" 

keytable=/boot/us.klt 

prompt 

nowarn 

timeout=3000 

message=/boot/message 

menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw 

image=/boot/vmlinuz 

label="Mandrake91" 

root=/dev/hdc7 

initrd=/boot/initrd.img 

append="quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off" 

vga=788 

read-only 

other=/dev/hda1 

label="Windows2000" 

table=/dev/hda

Additionally, if you continue to have trouble, make sure your /etc/fstab file has an entry for your NTFS XP partition. Then re-run lilo..

If you can't mount the cd, can you mount any cd? How about if you type

su

and type your root password first?