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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 ~]$

Nope, Atapi/IDE

Ok, did yet another fresh install, this one went through with no problems, no errors. Everything went fine, got the first time wizard, configured everything, KDE did not come up, only text. Shut down, reboot, same deal, no KDE only text. Logged in, tried startx and kde, no deal. Next brought up gnome, as before this worked. What the H*LL gives!!!! No errors or anything in the logs.

No, these were not downloaded. I know they work as they installed fine on the other laptop I just got rid of, the only problem with that one was I could not get the sound to work. Anyway, I tried two seperate fresh installs, both stop at different intervals and lock the machine up. Guess I'm back to pulling my hair out and it's not meant to be :x

Didn't work, same deal, gnome works, kde does not. I wiped the disk and I'm starting a fresh install right now, hopefully whatever screwed up the first time will be fixed with a fresh install. I should know in about 30 minutes.

Tomorrow, its getting late on the east coast and I've pulled enough hair out tonight :?

That did it, gnome came right up. I've shutdown and tried it with kde, no dice, I get: XFree86 Version 4.2.1 / X Window System (protocol version 11, revision 0, vendoe release 6600) Release Date: 3 September 2002 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-23mdkenterprise i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu Mar 20 13:42:38 2003 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" Using vt 7 waiting for X server to shut down Would this indicate a problem with kde somewhere? I would assume XFree86 is working correctly if gnome came up with no problems, correct? No errors in the XFree86.0.log other that what I posted previously.

Yes it does, I get the blue screen with the watch which sits there for a minute or two before dumping me into a text login, then that blanks to a black screen with the watch which sits there another minute or two, until ultimately I end up back at the text login. I don't see any real errors in both the XFree86.0 and XFree86.9 logs, there is a warning about inconsistent panel vertical dimension: 768 and 767, another warning about cannot shadow an accelerated frame buffer, and that's it, all modules seem to be loading. When typing "kde" I get a black screen with the X in the center for a couple of minutes, then: cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/mdk/kde/root-interface/kdeglobals': No such file or directory /usr/bin/startkde: line 107: 1540 Bus error /usr/bin/nspluginscan /usr/bin/startkde: line 199: 1545 Bus error ksplash /usr/bin/startkde: line 204: 1546 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: 1548 Bus error kwrapper ksmserver -- restore /usr/bin/startkde: line 212: xmessage: command not found Warning: connect() failed: No such file or subdirectory Error: Can't contact kdeinit! /tmp/mcop-kshuff is not owned by user waiting for X server to shut down When typing "startx" I get the blue screen with the watch, then just: Using vt 7 xf86KbdEvents Resource temporarily unavailable waiting for X server to shut down This is true as both root and my account

Got a problem, just installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Dell Latitude CPx J605GT. The problem is the window manager will not start, everything seems to be configured correctly. I used DrakConf and reset everything, I get the nice color test pattern, KDE is set to autoload, but upon reboot, all I get is text and a text login. What gives? System info for the curious... Dell Latitude CPx J650GT Mobile Pentium III 650 MHz processor 256 Mb Ram 9 Gb hard drive ATI Mobility A1 8 Mb AGP Video ESS Maestro 3 Audio 14.1" TFT display Toshiba DVD-ROM or sometimes CDR/W-CD-ROM drive

Done all the settings, no dice.

This also was done, nothing muted, volume at max, nothing. I'm almost to the point of giving up on it