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Moderators: Please move this elsewhere if that is appropriate. On trying to close every worked on photo, the GIMP routinely gives me the "xxx is not responding. Wait or force quit?" It has happened also with OpenOffice and now with Firefox when I wanted to upload a photo to a photography forum. I have used Linux for five years without facing this particular problem, which is more than a mere annoyance.

At this time I have only tuwien.ac.at, which in the past I have found to be excellent. Will go to the link you give. Thank you.

medo3891, it's my guess that htop does what wintop does in Windows. Thanks. Only problem is, I rather like beagles (canine kind). I'll see if I can get the icon to go away through the nautilus->desktop route. Thanks again. Yes, I did notice the "force quit" applet -- but Alt F2 seems easier and cleaner. In the five years for which I've used Linux, I've always been on KDE. Much Gnome ignorance to be overcome. [edit] Could not find htop and xkill, neither through Control Centre nor with urpmi. Removed Beagle anyway, since I don't see any use for indexing. The unwanted icon is gone.

Greg, I found no way to change the "orientation" setting. I did specify "locked down", but when I rebooted the panel was back at the top and I couldn't bring it down until I had unchecked "locked down". Let's just forget about this. As I said, it takes less than half a minute to bring it down at each boot. The menu sequences, I should say, are slightly different from the ones you gave. But then of course you were working from memory. Here is the output for which you asked: [albert@localhost ~]$ df Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb5 7.7G 3.3G 4.1G 45% / /dev/sdb7 11G 6.3G 4.8G 58% /home /dev/sda1 5.9G 3.7G 2.3G 63% /mnt/win_c /dev/sdb1 15G 11G 4.6G 69% /mnt/win_d /dev/sda5 69G 25G 44G 36% /mnt/win_e /dev/sda6 358M 2.1M 337M 1% /media/disk [albert@localhost ~]$ mount /dev/sdb5 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime) none on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/sdb7 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime) /dev/sda1 on /mnt/win_c type vfat (rw,umask=0,iocharset=utf8) /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/win_d type vfat (rw,umask=0,iocharset=utf8) /dev/sda5 on /mnt/win_e type vfat (rw,umask=0,iocharset=utf8) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) /dev/sda6 on /media/disk type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal) The computer was generally slow, and GIMP, Adobe Reader and OpenOffice all hung repeatedly. I have a suspicion that this could have been because I had banished the "386.6 MB Media" from the desktop by unmounting it. Second, in GRUB I had booted not into "Linux" but into what must be a newer kernel. Does the CTL-ALT-ESC combination not work in MDV 2009?

Just one more here, Greg, and that because it seems to concern the fstab already dealt with. An icon appears on my desktop with the label "386.6 MB Media". I don't like it. The gnome-utils package was already installed, by the way. I didn't pay attention because there was no gscrot to be found anywhere. No, you cannot mark this thread "solved". I'm still stuck with the Jumpin' Panel, even if it takes perhaps 20 seconds to fix.

Thanks, Greg. I thought there was something fishy about the name. Not to worry, I won't add the scanner to this thread when I get around to it. I shall first check sane to see if it's supported; and I understand that an Epson site (Avasys?) has drivers.

Thanks. Can't see any particular use for system snapshots. Have used ksnapshot in the past, but as this time I have installed Gnome... [edit] Can't find gscrot in the Control Centre, and command line urpmi says it does not exist.

Thank you. I shall find out what draksnapshot does. If it's for screen capture, I need it.

Will do, Greg. It's hardly a major problem, but still.... Will play it safe and keep a copy of the original ifcfg-eth0. [edit] Done. I suspect it could've been done through the CC too, but the options there are none too clear and I'm old enough to be a little scared of GUIs. I suppose I shall have to put up with the Jumping Panel. Takes less than a minute to fix on each boot, so maybe I shouldn't complain. Another grumble is a message that pops up several times about there being USB devices available for backing up. It stops doing that after a while, so that's really no big deal. If only I can get my scanner to work with Mandriva, I won't really need my Windows 98 any more; even though I have lots of free goodies in there and shall probably want to keep it.

Here we are: [root@localhost albert]# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:D7:0E:A0 inet addr:123.237.17.34 Bcast:123.237.17.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:baff:fed7:ea0/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:25211 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:16938 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:14124168 (13.4 MiB) TX bytes:2662309 (2.5 MiB) Interrupt:18 Base address:0x6000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:1280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:98432 (96.1 KiB) TX bytes:98432 (96.1 KiB) [root@localhost albert]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=no METRIC=10 MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no USERCTL=yes RESOLV_MODS=no IPV6INIT=no IPV6TO4INIT=no DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient NEEDHOSTNAME=yes PEERDNS=yes PEERYP=yes PEERNTPD=no

Greg, thank you. I tried simply interchanging D and E in fstab and re-booting, but that didn't work. [edit] Did what you advised, Greg. Rebooted and all is well. The Windows drives' labels in the left pane of Nautilus don't work, but who cares? I still do not understand why I must reconfigure the network each time I boot. Never happened before in Mandrake/Mandriva, nor in PCLOS. Another annoyance is that every time I boot, I see the panel at the top of the screen although I left it at the bottom.

I have since discovered that the network settings can be done from the desktop, without going into the Control Centre. The problem can be described as Mostly Solved. However, there is a more serious difficulty. Mandriva is not correctly recognising my Windows 98 partitions. Two files are attached, the output of fdisk -l and the original fstab. sda1 is marked win_c and is indeed Windows C: but sdb1 is marked win_c2 but is in fact Windows D: and sda5 is marked win_d but is in fact Windows E: Will appreciate advice on making the correction. fdisk_l.txt fstab_bac.txt

I have now installed 2009 Free from DVD and fully updated it. Here too, I have to configure the network settings each time I boot up.

Well, I'd set it up for auto log-in but I get the same log-in screen twice in succession. The "look and feel" is now back (almost) to what I had made it -- and as you can see, I'm getting quote marks from the keyboard. Will look into the networking section. Thank you.

Thanks for the printer link, medo3891. I should be able to fix the keyboard thing in MCC. I have the KDE version (which does come with icewm) and am set up to log in directly. Wired connection, native driver. Never had this problem in several installations of Mandrake and Mandriva and PCLinuxOS.

I struggled for a long while to update my fresh installation of Mandriva 2009 One and succeeded only when, on the advice of a friend with experience, I changed the sources of the media. But that was hardly the end of my problems. I must configure my Net connection in MCC each time I reboot. The changes I had painstakingly made to the appearance of the desktop disappeared after my last reboot. I have a blue screen with a text only panel at the bottom, sans clock and nearly all else. The option to configure printing and scanning has no option for a printer. I cannot type in single quotes (apostrophes) or double quotes.

Ian, the lines for C: and D: in fstab had the word "noauto" in them. Merely removing it has done the trick. I have a copy of the former fstab for when I decide that doing things manually each time is fun after all. Configuring my printer was not difficult at all in "administrator mode", Ian and Scarecrow. Can't recalll any talk of authorisation, though. I am left with a red warning on booting, about the US International keyboard. Only an irritant, since it doesn't seem to cause any other problems.

Thanks, Ian, mounting the Windows partitions seems clear enough. I'm on FAT32/vfat. About CUPS, I must see. I know that the packages you name came in through Synaptic. I'm not in Mandriva any more, by the way, but PCLOS has much in common with it. I suspect you mean "Configure Your System".

Apparently because of a server problem, I have not been able to register on the forum of PCLinuxOS. I think someone here can help me with what are probably minor difficulties. First, I have to mount Windows D: and C: manually each time. Not such a problem, but I cannot understand why those are not mounted automatically as they were in Mandrake/Mandriva. Second, I cannot get CUPS configured and therefore cannot print. It did not come with the Minime iso, so I brought it in with Synaptic. Third, I opted for the US International keyboard, and get a "file not found" message each time I boot. In PCLOS (as in MDV) Shift plus a numeric pad key does not work for selecting text: I get numbers instead.

I did boot with CD1, Ian, including once with the rescue option, but then I had no idea what to do. Your explanation is simplicity itself. Remove or disable. I cannot see how the thing got roused from slumber. Let me see if something like it happens in PCLOS, though my current battle there is with a mulish CUPS.

The usual teething troubles. I have only Mandrake/Mandriva RPMs, and not all are OK with PCLOS. The tar.gz installers have given no trouble so far. Then there's Synaptic.

Arctic, I tried what you now suggest, but still could not get into MDV. Knoppix seemed to think it owned the whole damn machine. Since the MDV installation was fairly recent and didn't have much in it which wasn't backed up somewhere, and since I had been thoroughly cheesed off by the jumping desktop icons, I scrubbed it and installed PCLOS in its place. I couldn't tell you this, for which I'm sorry, but it was a spur of the moment decision. [EDIT] I think I said hda6 when I should have said hda7. Never could count. Glad to hear your headache is gone. This is the course that most colds take. There's terrific headache while the plumbing is choked with muck, but it goes away when the muck begins to run out. Sniffling people make a sorry spectacle, of course.

In Mozilla in Knoppix 3.3. Now to see if this chroot thing takes me anywhere.

Arctic, you melted and flowed down south to the other pole? Oops, sorry, forgot your cold. Damn things can be hell.

No unusual behaviour in Windows. Will see about booting with modem unplugged. Modem not USB. Have a rather old Knoppix live and a fairly new PCLinuxOS (Minime) -- but no idea how to use the things or to chroot.