kshuff

Na, I'll stick to 9.1 for now, don't want to go through that nighmare again... -ks

That's the only place I have room for all of them, but their well cared for :D -ks

It was a challenge to get 9.1 installed where on the other hand 9.0 went with no problems right off the bat. I'm not new to the unix world, have 14 Silicon Graphics workstations in the basement running IRIX, only new to the Linux idea. Takes some getting used to. -ks

Maybe tonight if time permits :D -ks

As some of you may recall I've been having a tough time trying to get 9.1 loaded onto a Dell Latitude CPx laptop, problems with X, and so on. After banging my head against the wall for a few months, I finally gave up and let it sit for three months. But last night I decided to try again, guess what, the installation went off without a hitch, no problems whatsoever. And everything actually works! Guess I'll never know what the problem was, but who cares as long as everything is functioning A-OK! -ks

I'll give it a shot, couldn't hurt to try anything at this point, thanks.

Don't have any linux systems, but do have six SGI IRIX systems in the basement. I did do yet another install and it went through, but I'm having the same stupid X problem I was having with 9.0 a month ago. KDE refuses to come up, all I get is text. Gnome comes up with no problems. I'm done pulling hair out over that. :x

I seen that in another post, just got the patch file. When I booted from the CD this time it said I had errors in my filesystems. I'm going to wipe the drive again and start over, I ran fsck to try to fix the problem but that just hosed everything, it wouldn't boot after that.

I got the install to go through using a text install, everything went fine, configured the system, but upon reboot I get a kernel panic, the system hangs with the caps lock and scroll lock lights flashing. Locks up tight.

Actually, when I did the fresh install I erased the entire disk and repartitioned, so that should have taken care of any problems. Actually, I'm to the east of Schuylkill, in Lehigh county, Allentown to be exact :D

Didn't burn them, got em off Ebay

Ok, got Mandrake 9.1 and went to upgrade my 9.0 install, but that didn't go so well. I'm now doing a fresh install of 9.1 but ran into a problem. All the packages I select install but (2), I go on the error, but at the end of the installation I get "ldconfig failed". This puts me back into the package installation menu. If I go into the individual package selection and deselect the packages that are not installing correctly, I still get "ldconfig failed". I seem to be stuck in a loop, how do I get out of it to finish the installation?? The packages failing to install are: texinfo-4.3-3mdk.i586 and screen-3.9.13-2mdk.i586 Probably nothing I really need, I just want to be able to complete the installation without getting that ldconfig error, it won't let me past that point.

Don't know how, but its fixed. I loaded a copy of Caldera's Open Linux I had laying around, then reloaded Mandrake 9, now everything is happy and KDE starts.

??? Anyone? I'm willing to try anything at this point.

Yes, everything is there [kshuff@localhost ~]$ more .xsession-errors /usr.bin/startkde: line 107: 1409 Bus error /usr/bin/nspluginscan /usr/bin/startkde: line 199: 1414 Bus error ksplash /usr/bin/startkde: line 204: 1415 Bus error LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kcminit +knotify /usr/bin/startkde: line 204: xmessage: command not found Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory /usr/bin/startkde: line 212: 1417 Bus error kwrapper ksmserver --restore /usr/bin/startkde: line 212: xmessage: command not found Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory Error: Can't contact kdeinit! [kshuff@localhost ~]$