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In the future, things might even be easier. AFAIK, Mandriva plans- by popular demand - to ship 2008.1 with a web-filter application in order to protect children from visiting nasty sites. See also http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17250

Aren't we glad we live in democratic and free societies. We can decide freely which products and services suck.

Still an unspectacular, clean, functional desktop...

Have you cleaned you urpmi cache already?

If you have the 3CD- or the DVD-version, you can try to boot the CD/DVD, go to rescue mode and reinstall the bootloader.

Or open the Mandriva Control Center (aka. Configure your computer) and go to the software section (install&remove software). There, e.g. type in the searchbox "pidgin". All pidgin-related packages should be shown. Click on the packages you want to install and have fun. And welcome aboard. :)

I guess the main reason is that DSL connections are still not available everywhere. Even in Germany, there are some areas where you simply cannot get DSL. Now think of Africa, China, India, Brazil,... Most users there still use Modems, thus they would not benefit from rolling-release distros at all. Would it be great if Mandriva would be a rolling release? Hell, yes! Can I use a rolling release right now like Debian? Sadly not, due to some bloody hardware drivers for my printers ([sarcasm]Thank you, Canon. [/sarcasm]) that only work with .rpm based distros (PCLinuxOS is not my cup of tea).

If you plan to change your partition structure a lot, then better start from scratch after backing up your personal data. I agree, more than three partitions is usually not needed for home users. My suggestion: / = 10-15 GB /swap = 1GB (should be more than enough) /home = rest of space /ntfs or vfat = 50 GB

If 2007.1 worked well for you, why don't you skip 2008 then? Remember that there is not always a "need" to upgrade a system. ;) In my case, I tried 2007.1 for a long time but it always froze on me. Thus I went back to 2007.0 until 2008 was available. And 2008 works perfectly with my hardware. My experience is that every distro publishes the one or other release which will annoy you. I found Ubuntus 6.04 (big-time networking problems) and 7.10 extremely disturbing (partition tables trashed, hibernation not working) and was less than happy with Fedora 2 (refused to install properly and mount my usb-sticks). And SUSE 8.2 was buggy as hell and self-destroyed my KDE back then... Bottom line: use what works - even if it ain't the latest and greatest.

No problem. :)

Try with renaming the /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libhcengine.so file.

Also check if the problem reoccurs if you set up a new user account.

Although you figured it out yourself, it would be nice if you could post the answer to your problem. Others might have the same problem you had. :)

R.I.P, you beloved ol' Navigator.

I still don't know exactly, if this Gnome-version is an official one or a community-release. I guess it's the latter one.

Oh, some 60 to 70 people have taken a look at the post, but no one knew an answer. Remember, we are mere mortals and do not know everything. Anyway, glad that you could solve it and that you have posted the solution for others. I will mark this topic as [solved]. :)

Iphitus, he always criticised the new graphical frontend (=rpmdrake) as being shitty (if my memory still serves me well). That's okay and I can live with this opinion of his, although I'd say that it is not inferior or superior but simply different to the old rpmdrake. But urpmi being shitty suddenly? What facts are there to back his opinion? What reports are there that reveal that urpmi is "highly roblematic"? If he cannot come up with something to back up his point, I continue to say that it is nonsense what he posts. I have searched the web and haven't found any evidence of urpmi being "highly problematic" (except some database-locks, which are nothing worth discussing, as you might agree). This is an important thing: there were no far-reaching differences in the urpmi design after the urpmi updates got shipped to the mirrors (except urpmi being locked completely in cooker once - but hey... it's cooker!). I have followed the development at Mandriva now for roughly four years, and never have I encountered a stage where urpmi got worse or was robbed of its possibilities. It is as functional as always and even more reliable now than it was some years ago. How can a package manager be worse if it did not experience dramatic chances in its design but got more options and got more reliable? How can based on that fact someone like Gael Duval state that urpmi - in its current version - is a bad package manager (and where did he state that)? If he did so, well... understanding Gael Duval is quite simple. It's all about politics and economics. He wants to push his apt-get based Ubuntu-spinoff. But really... who cares about Gael who now and then does some mud-slinging because he got fired some months ago? It was not me who compared synaptic to urpmi. ;) Call it a sematics thing if you want. for me it is still "comparing apples with oranges". PS: You might ask why I do care about this thing at all. The reason is: new users or less it-knowledgeable users might get irritated and spread nonsense themselves later on on other forums. That will serve absolutely no one but only hurt the whole Linux-community.

urpmi is a package manager apt-get is a package manager smart is a package manager rpmdrake is a graphical frontend synaptic is a graphical frontend smart-gui is a graphical frontend I thought you know the difference between package managers and graphical frontends.

Damn, I am so tired of these annoying nonsense-flame-posts... After all if you are comparing apples with oranges. Apt-get and smart are NOT frontends to the package managers. *sigh* If you simply want to badmouth Mandriva, then do so - and tell us so. But please stop posting this kind of nonsense.

Hmm.. the enlightenment 17 desktop (e.g. available from elive) runs well on a 64MB machine, I have been told. But then, e 17 is not really suited for newcomers imho... Try to find out if a very lightweight distro like puppy or xubuntu run well and if they might suit the user.

Mandriva Free is, as it says, FREE software, thus if you have hardware that relies on proprietary drivers, don't blame Mandriva for not shipping them because of legal concerns. Blame the hardware vendor for giving poor support. Download the proprietary drivers that you need (e.g. nvidia or ati drivers) and configure your system accordingly. A bit of searching on the board will do miracles at times. ;) Mandriva is NOT bad software, only because you didn't get your system up and running in a minute. For millions of users, Mandriva works perfectly, so please stop flaming. Side note: Linux is not responsible for drivers/modules. Linux is only the basic-system kernel upon which modules and such are built/integrated, depending on the distros goal and policy.

Actually, it is /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-mdv

BigBoss, You simply cannot expect that you get instant replies on a forum, so please don't flood the topic with comments that do not explain your problems with more detail/new material. If you cannot wait some hours for an answer, then better use the IRC channels, where people might be able to give you an answer immediately. IRC-Channels: #mandriva and #musb I have removed the "flooding posts" in order to clean things up.

Well, from what you posted, the only thing I can think of is that the system probably set up a bootloader configuration with wrong harddisk-specifications. PATA disks are usually labelled hd0, hd1, hd2, etc, while SATA disks are labelled sd0, sd1, sd2, etc. Thus, if your bootloader is on hd0 and tries to access the partitions from your sd0 drive, then you will need to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file of your system - or edit the grub entry temporarily when the bootloader shows up. Grub can be edited instantly. Just press a key at the bootloader screen and follow the instructions. Replace the hd0 with sd0 entries and give it a try. If it doesn't work - no problem. The change was only temporary. The default configuration won't be touched until you edit menu.lst. PS: although everything can be fixed using the ONE version, it is (imho) useful to have the dvd available as it has a rescue mode built in (which lets you e.g. restore the linux and the windows bootloaders).

Welcome aboard. :) And ...umm... can you please tell us about the partitions you have set up? How many? Is there more than one harddisk (I guess so, as hd1,0 would be your second harddisk) and which type of harddisks do you use (PATA/SATA)?