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I had the same issue installing Mandrake on my toshiba laptop 15GB . I actually can't remember how it was resolved. When running a dual boot on that machine I never managed to divide the drive the way I wanted (7.5 GB each approx ) it always came out at about 8GB with 3 left over. I eventually wiped windows off it completely and got it to recognise 13GB. 8 + 3 = 11 not 13, so go figure. Other people had the same issue I've always thought it might have been a sort of hidden partiton used by one of those rescue disc things. (I never got a windows disc for it, just a toshiba recovery disc.) It disappeared after an encounter with partitioning tool. fips? I can't remeber who gave me instructions Afrosheen or somebody?

At the risk of being obvious have you set the conduits to copy from Evolution to the Palm? I think you can copy from the Palm to Evolution from Evolution to The Palm and sychronise all as dfferent options. I've had terrible bother with USB cradles but the serial cable works every time for me. I can use JPilot KPilot and Evolution in Mdk 9.0 without problems. If your having no joy at all give me a holler and I'll try to look up the actual settings . I have notes I took somewhere!

If its ok to reply to your own queries! In the Mail folder there are two files address.index and address.index.ids for some reason I had to set the permissions to read writ and execute

I had this problem before and with the installation of KDE 3.1 it's still happening. "cannot save address book" I usually use evolution but I'd like to fix this as its happening on a freinds installation as well.

Thanks its all happy bunnies now! I guess I just paniced after getting the dependencies sorted out I just ran urpmi again and it installed from the previously cached rpms (/var/cache I think) I know have an extremely nice KDE 3.1 desktop. Just goes to prove you should never experiment when you have work to do!

urpmi to get the new KDE 3.1 failed cto install with the following message: Installation failed: libxine.so.0 is needed by kdemultimedia-3.1-1mdk libxineutils.so.0 is needed by kdemultimedia-3.1-1mdk htdig is needed by kdebase-3.1-5mdk libglut.so.3 is needed by kdegraphics-3.1-1mdk After I sort these dependencies out how do I recover the installation?

They ran an NT server in the last place I worked. I shut it down and rebooted on a Friday befor we went home in the desperate hope and perhaps slightly ridiculous belief that it would stop weird shit happening during the weak. Anyone else operate on caffiene and strange pagan rituals?

About £23.99 which is about average for good quality computer books.

I think there was a review that said something like "Mandrake 9.0 seems to have lost all those stability issues that dogged earlier releases". Personally I don't ever remember stability issues. going right back to 6.3 (I think). Maybe somebody installed am older version of Mandrake on some unreliable hardware and then shouted loudly when it went wrong? I'm with cannonfodder on this one if it boots up and shuts down without problems thats good enough for me.

I'll send you what I can when I get a breathing space. I've been informed that the problem might be the difference between carriage return in Windows and Linux so when I run the application it just sits there waiting for the enter key to be pressed after the first input value is entered. I haven't tried yet but I'm told that pressing Ctrl and M instead should solve the problem. Check you personal messages. Thanks again Will

I've done everything you've suggested but it still not working! What you say is working fine under Windows. Under Mandrake but it either can't find it or else compiles fine but doesn't work properly when run. (This to me is the really confusing bit)

Phunni I've been pretty careful and thorough about this over the last couple of days and I still haven't got it working! I haven't finished trying but I've got to spend some time preparing for an exam:) I must be doing something wrong as it appears to be working under Windows/jdk1.3 when I import an unpackaged class. It's me! Thanks for bothering I appreciate your efforts. I'll be back!

Thanks I'll try this as soon as possible!

Thanks for the offer. It may be the way I've done things I'm trying to find a complete beginning to end tutorial on creating and using packages. I intended to ask my lecturer today if it was ok to publish his code or pass it on but I didn't see him. I'll let you know.

Hi, thanks that was at least a partial success. The .java files reliant on uuInOut do compile when it's declared as public but the program only accepts the first input then sits there doing nothing. It doesn't come up with the next user prompt and it doesn't terminate. maybe the SDK is fussier under Linux than windows?

Sun SDK 1.4.1 Importing packages aren't working. The package root directory is being found (it's in the class directory) and according to Javac's verbose output the package is being loaded. Trouble is although application classes compile OK they don't work properly. The programs are very simple import uuInOut; class Testy { public static void main(String [] args) { int x; System.out.println("Enter number "); x = uuInOut.ReadInt(); System.out.println("Success!" +x); } } Javac Output shows : [loading ./uupack/uuInOut.class] The code from this package isn't an issue it works under Windows and with SDK 1.3 under linux any ideas? I have searched the internet religiously for 3 days trying to find out about this so far all i've got are a bundle of unhappy 1.4 users..

thanks ramfree17, I think the problem arose because my lectures and practical classes (and windows compiler) use the jdk 1.3. Using 1.3 importing a class file is ok. Under 1.4 it is no longer permissible to import a class unless the class is in a named package. From http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~slack/jav...ook/errors.html A nuisance if you ask me! Steve Scrimpshire Thanks for your input, appreciated.

I'm having a problem with both netbeans, jedit and using javac through the command line. Importing classes isn't working. It is working under windows with both Kawa and the SDK. uuInOut is a single class file not a package. The program below illustrates problem. Perhaps I'm doing something stupid and its just driving me nuts! import uuInOut; class Test{ public static void main(String [] args){ int x; x= uuInOut.ReadInt(); System.out.println("Number entered was: "+x); } } Test.java:2: '.' expected import uuInOut; ^ Test.java:9: cannot resolve symbol symbol : variable uuInOut location: class Test x= uuInOut.ReadInt(); ^ 2 errors Process javac exited with code 1[/code]

could not open RPM package list file /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.ibiblio.org_pub_Linux_distributions_contrib_texstar_apt_Mandrake_base_pkglis t.updates: (no error) Problem opening /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.ibiblio.org_pub_Linux_distributions_contrib_texstar_apt_Mandrake_base_pkglis t.updates The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. I need to add a new mirror (I think )? How? If I close the error box with OK Synaptic shuts down so its kind of hard to poke around.

I'm pretty much a settled KDE user. In my case it looks like for some reason no local .bashrc or .bash_profile files were created on the desktop. They were created on the laptop and there has never been such a problem with the laptop. So I presume someting went wrong during the install? To go back to aru's first fix my script now reads #! /bin/bash -login as well as having the home directory bash files copied from the laptop. I still don't know or at least haven't tested if #! /bin/bash -login is strictly necessary.

Hi aru (shorter to type than arusabal) No joy. I tried that but it just didn't work. Doesn't the # mean its a coment. Edit 1 Sorted! I copied .bashrc and .bashprofile from my laptop to my desktop home directory. (seems like cheating!) Thanks anyway aru, it's good to know I can always find a Valencia supporter when I need one :D

My shell prompt reads: bash-2.05b$ It doesn't matter where in the system I navigate to it's always the same. If I su then its fine it behaves as I expect it to but this bash-2.05b$ business is driving me up the walls! I can't tell where I am from the prompt. Does anyone know whats going on? I have no ~/.bashrc file although the one in /etc seems fine. I have tried creating a soft link between my home directory and /etc/bashrc but no joy so far. (Thanks to Glitz for help already recieved.)

I'm having the exact same problem. I'm using a retail standard pack and used the disks a while ago to install 9.0 on my laptop. I have had a few problems reading files using my CD burner before. SO: I might try creating a install floppy and run install from a different drive. I know this doesn't really make sense but I'm getting desperate. I might have to just reinstall 8.2 which worked well on this machine. Edit: I just noticed that some people had the same problem switched drives and everything was happy bunnies, so maybe it is worth a try. A while ago you could see the tracks burned or pressed on a cd nowdays they're as smooth as mirrors. I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

Vim is mostly OK I'm not much on emacs I think its a bit too much program for its own good. I'm happy enough using any text editor at the moment. On Windows I really like UltraEdit. I wish something like it was available for Linux. Suggestions?