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  1. OK, thank you. This is what I have on. If you see anything else I can turn off, I would appreciate knowing.

     

    # chkconfig --list | grep :on
    acpid		   0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    alsa			0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    anacron		 0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    atd			 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    crond		   0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    cups			0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    dm			  0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:on	6:off
    haldaemon	   0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    keytable		0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    kheader		 0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:off   5:on	6:off
    messagebus	  0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    network		 0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    network-up	  0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    numlock		 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    partmon		 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    portreserve	 0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    preload		 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:on	6:off
    sound		   0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    syslog		  0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    udev-post	   0:off   1:on	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off

  2. Oops, I thought I explained myself well! Anyway, I was sure I had changed my cdrom settings in fstab because I was goofing around trying to get an audio CD working (and yes, I read the errata!). Aactually I was goofing around with MCC, changing different settings, etc. I thought I had it returned back to its original settings, but I wasn't sure. So anyway, I was finally able to open kwrite in root (after reading what Greg said in another post B) ) After saving a backup of my fstab, I deleted the cdrom line like Adam said. fstab now says the same thing it did before I deleted the line, so I guess I didn't mess it up. I just wanted to make sure it was written correctly after I was playing around with MCC. Thank you.

  3. I was having the same problem.

     

    # nano /etc/fstab

    bash: nano: command not found

    [root@localhost kieth]# kdesu kwrite

    bash: kdesu: command not found

    [root@localhost kieth]# kwrite /etc/fstab

    kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher

    klauncher(18239) kdemain: No DBUS session-bus found. Check if you have started the DBUS server.

    kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!

     

    Then I tried su - like Greg said, and it worked.

  4. I was just wondering which services I can turn off? I never add new hardware. Thanks.

     

    # chkconfig --list
    acpid		   0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    alsa			0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    anacron		 0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    apmd			0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
    atd			 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    avahi-daemon	0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on	4:off   5:on	6:off
    bpalogin		0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
    crond		   0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    cups			0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off		   
    dm			  0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:on	6:off		   
    exim			0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off		   
    haldaemon	   0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off		   
    hcfpci		  0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off		   
    hsf			 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off		   
    ip6tables	   0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off		   
    iptables		0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off		   
    irqbalance	  0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off		   
    keytable		0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    kheader		 0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:off   5:on	6:off
    mandi		   0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    mdadm		   0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
    messagebus	  0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    netconsole	  0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
    netfs		   0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    network		 0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    network-auth	0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
    network-up	  0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    nfs-common	  0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
    ntpd			0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
    numlock		 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    partmon		 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    pcscd		   0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
    portmap		 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
    portreserve	 0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    pppoe		   0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
    pptp			0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
    preload		 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:on	6:off
    resolvconf	  0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    shorewall	   0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    slmodemd		0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
    snmpd		   0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
    sound		   0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    sshd			0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
    syslog		  0:off   1:off   2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    udev-post	   0:off   1:on	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
    wlan			0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off

     

     

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  5. I was goofing around with my CD player seeing if I could get a CD playing, and changed my fstab settings. Yes I read the errata page, but this didn't stop me from trying!! :P Anyway, the change would only be to the cdrom player. Would you look at my fstab settings below and tell me what I need to do to make it the way it should be? Thanks!

     

    # Entry for /dev/sdb1 :

    UUID=74cd7cc9-901e-4a54-866b-e5b5e0675c15 / ext3 defaults 1 1

    # Entry for /dev/sda5 :

    UUID=664a176f-fb80-4142-bf57-57ef5c8f0b56 /backup ext3 defaults 1 2

    # Entry for /dev/sdb6 :

    UUID=30d7b7e5-995c-4dc0-b1b3-3603ff5dc60d /home ext3 defaults 1 2

    /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom auto user,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro 0 0

    # Entry for /dev/sda1 :

    UUID=AA90865F9086323D /media/hd ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

    none /proc proc defaults 0 0

    # Entry for /dev/sdb5 :

    UUID=612580d6-b99d-405c-a466-7be8eecf6efe swap swap defaults 0 0

     

     

    [moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman]

  6. I downloaded 2009.0 this morning and installed it this evening. Everything looks OK, and everything seems to be working fine, too. :D If I can download and install something without any great difficulties, anyone can!! I'm sure I will be writing questions as time goes on, as I learn the new KDE. BTW, this is the first time that I haven't had to enter Mandrivia via failsafe and re-do my video card. It worked the first time!

     

    Kieth

  7. AlRoss, don't loose heart. I'm just the opposite of a computer geek! I like "messing around" with my computer, checking, changing, adding, deleting, etc. I've messed things up so badly, so many times, I've lost count! My kids are now in college, and when we bought them a laptop, they wouldn't even let me touch them!!! They're right too!!!! Anyway, no matter how badly I messed up things, here with this board, everyone has always been very, very, very patient and helpful. I started using linux (Mandrake) years ago because I didn't like Windows98, and I've always received all the help I've needed here with this board.

     

    I dual boot, with 2 hard drives. I have one drive for only Mandriva. On the other, I have WindowsXP and my "backup" partition for linux. Just keep trying what the "guys" here tell you, and it will be OK. Our (you and I) biggest problem is that we are not that good with linux. I'm not that good because I just don't have the "head" for it. You, because you are just learning. But don't loose heart, you'll get it!

  8. Just out of curiosity, why did they give so many choices in the Software Management Gui? With some of them I understand, if you're looking for something very specific, but the others?

     

    All

    Meta Packages

    Packages with Gui

    All updates

    Security updates

    Bug fixes updates

    General updates

    Backports

  9. I've had the same problem. If I remember correctly, there are a couple of things you can do/try.

     

    1) Click on the arrow in the top left hand corner. Then click on "resize". Then with the mouse, resize the window to fit the entire screen.

     

    or

     

    2) Click on the arrow in the top left hand corner. Then click on "special window settings". Click on "geometry", then "size". There you can 'play around' with the settings to get the window to remain maximized.

  10. I thought my problem of Firefox 3 crashing was fixed, but it crashed yesterday. It seems to do it when I push the back button a lot.

     

    Edit:

    Oh, another thing I forgot. I usually hit the back button, then start scrolling with my mouse before the page is completely loaded. While doing that, it crashes at times.

  11. I've never used opera mail, so I do not know what it does with html mail. I do not use kmail because you cannot write in html. Instead, I use thunderbird. With it, you can leave it on (as I do) and it will check your mail whenever you want (mine is every 10 minutes). You can also write in html.

     

    Kieth

     

    I just found this on the internet at http://www.computerbob.com/guides/why_i_wo..._or_kontact.php , which changes some of what I stated above.

     

    KMail can display the HTML email messages that I receive. KMail can let me create new HTML messages to send to other people. But KMail will not let me reply to HTML messages without stripping the HTML out of them. In other words, if you send me an HTML email message, I can read it just fine, but when I reply to it, my reply won't contain any of the HTML that you sent to me. Everything that you highlighted or bold-faced or underlined or italicized or changed to a different color or enlarged will be converted back into plain text, along with any tables and bulleted lists that you sent me. In fact, not only does KMail insist on turning everything back into plain text, it also insists on adding colors to the different levels of replies.
  12. Greg, I did not know what to expect when I changed ./mozilla to ./mozilla2. After I changed it, I immediately looked at terminal to see what happened. When I saw all the errors, I wrote my response here. I was expecting the errors not to be there. But you're right, FireFox has not crashed since I made the change, even if I get all the errors.

     

    Is there a file, cookie or something else that caused FireFox to crash?

     

    Thanks,

    Kieth

  13. Nope, that didn't work. Here's what I got in terminal.

     

    $ firefox3
    GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb5b141f0: NP_GetMIMEDescription
    GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb5b141f0: NP_GetMIMEDescription return
    GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb5b141f0: NP_GetValue
    GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb5b141f0: NP_GetValue: returning plugin name.
    GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb5b141f0: NP_GetValue return
    GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb5b141f0: NP_GetValue
    GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb5b141f0: NP_GetValue: returning plugin description.
    GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0xb5b141f0: NP_GetValue return
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8

     

    I don't think I have 2 firefoxes loaded. Doing updates, who knows what I did. But anyway, I searched for others, but I didn't find any. Also, according to MCC, I only have firefox3 installed, along with the Italian interface and the lib files.

     

    Just out of curiosity, I cranked up the Opera browser, using terminal, and this is what I got.

     

    $ opera
    ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
    ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
    opera: X Shared memory extension is not available. ZPixmap not supported
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8

     

    Any other ideas as how to resolve the problem?

     

    Thanks,

    Kieth

  14. In terminal, I opened up Fire Fox 3, and began to use it. When it closed down, I received the following errors.

     

    $ firefox3
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
    /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 27665 Segmentation fault	  "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

     

    Any ideas on how to resolve the problem?

     

    Thanks,

    Kieth

     

     

    [moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman]

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