derxen

Hello,

it's all sorted now, but I had a very strange problem after installing. I installed from harddisk (the network install really didn't work), but afterwards gnome wouldn't start up. I removed lock files and anything that looked relevant, and noticed that some files were now owned by the other user of the system. I changed that, gnome started, then firefox wouldn't start, and I found out that in fact my whole home folder was owned by the other user. I changed it back with chown <me> -R /home/<me>, but I can't figure out what happened. Anyone have a clue?

derxen

for what it is worth, this was my experience too but after I waited a bit longer (could not say how long but I went and made coffee - I may even have grown and roasted it myself) it came started up.

 

Leo

Maybe I should have *two* cigarettes then, or try the coffee thing.

I noticed something in the logs: it says 'found net interface lo, but blacklisted' (it also finds eth0, but that's okay, apparently). Could that be relevant?

derxen

And your ethernet/wifi adapter is?

It's a realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+. The kernel log says 'configuring eth0 ' and then the settings, which look correct, but ten minutes later nothing has happened yet. I've tried resetting the gateway and then booting again, but that doesn't help.

Hello

I'm trying to do a network install of 2007.1, using the boot.iso on a cd. For some reason, it hangs after configuring eth0. Nothing happens anymore. I have a linksys adsl gateway, which acts a a dhcp server, and that's never a problem with an install from cd. Does anybody have any idea what could be wrong?

derxen

I shouldn't ask stupid questions. Adding 'export COLUMNS=40' to the script did the trick.

sorry

derxen

Hello,

I hope someone can help with this. I've made a little bash-script for use on my pda (which runs familiar/gpe). Part of the script is a 'select' routine, for picking files from a directory. The select command sends its output to stderr, so it ends up on the screen. When the file names are not too long, it displays the entries in two columns. This works fine on my pc, but the screen on the pda is narrow, so when the file names are short and the entries are displayed in two columns, the ones in the right column get wrapped into the left column. Does anyone know of a way to avoid this?

thanks

derxen

I think I've found the cause. In xfce there is an option 'save session for future login'. If I switch that off, there is no problem. If it's switched on, the problem described above occurs. In that case, both ~/.cache and ~/.config (or at least the file relating to that option) have to be removed for it to start again.

derxen

There is some xfce stuff in ~/.cache on my system. I'm guessing but I think it caches some session settings in there

so perhaps deleting or moving those would help.

Thanks speedball, that did it. I removed ~/.cache, and it starts up now. I don't know what it was in ~/cache that caused it, but if I find out I'll let you know. It might have something to do with upgrading from xfce 4.2.

derxen

No luck. ~/.gconfd only contains a file 'savedstate', and removing that does not help.

Afaik, the only user files that xfce uses are those in ~/.config, and removing that did not help. Is there a chance this has anything to do with gconfd? Because every time i get the 'error reinitilizing server', right before that it says that gconfd is exiting.

derxen

I'm still trying to solve this, and I've tried all I can think of: remove ~/config, where the xfce config files are kept, removing everything in ~/tmp, removing /tmp/ICE-unix and /tmp/X11-unix, reinstalling xfce, updating it to RC1, and a few other things. It shows the tips and tricks, and then just the mouse pointer, and the gdm background (but not the gdm login). All I can do then is ctrl-alt-backspace. xfce does start for other users.

Does anyone have any idea what else I might try?

derxen

Hello all,

this seems to be an interesting problem, in so far as I haven't a clue as to what causes it, and a little googling hasn't turned up anyone who does. I was running xfce with the compositor enabled (on mandriva 2007), and after some problems where it wouldn't come back alive after a screensaver, it ran fine. Then today it won't get beyond the splash screen. The only thing I can find in the logs is a gdm error: 'error reinitilizing server'. The typo is in the log. Google turns up a few other desperate individuals who get the same log entry in different circumstances, but no one with an answer. Gnome (without 3d) works well. I have removed and reinstalled xfce, to no avail. Does anyone have any idea?

derxen

yup tried that Mhn also tried rebooting.. Still the same issue i just turn off 3d desktop until there a patch or a work around, I was hoping someone would know how to fix it though.

-sc

Well when I reboot I can log in as any user of course, but to switch I have to reboot again. I turned off 3d as well.

derxen

See my earlier post: I have the same problem, and the bug has been reported earlier. As far as I know, there's no known solution.

derxen

That's interesting, in the .idx file of the download only xscreensaver-common is mentioned, none of the other ones. I wonder how that happened. I'll substitute the cd's as sources for one of the mirrors. Thanks, dexter.

derxen

hello all,

I've encountered two problems after installing 2007: first, when i'm in gnome (only desktop installed), and i want to switch user, i cannot open a desktop for the other user, because socket 93 is still taken, and i get sent back to the original user+desktop. I read the errata, but the advice there (add a line to /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf to make sure the x-server is restarteed) doesn't help. Any ideas?

[more info: I believe this is the same thing as mentioned in comment #8 at http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24863, the bug report. I use XGL too, not AIGLX. So has anyone found a solution yet?]

The other problem is with installing xfce (my favourite desktop) from contrib. Does anyone else get a dependency problem, about a missing xscreensaver? There is no xscreensaver package in 2008, only xscreensaver-common.

Any help would be much appreciated.

derxen

[moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

Wow, it works, and setting up samba was very easy with the help of the faq. Thanks a lot, ianw1974 and scarecrow, you've been a great help.

derxen

If the router has DHCP enabled, you won't need to worry about much. It will allocate an IP address to the machine, as well as the default route, which means you won't have to worry about the routing table too much. It should also pick up its DNS entries from here.

That simple? Great! So how do I ping the laptop?

derxen

I wonder if someone could point me in the right direction with this. I have a linux pc (mandriva2006), there is a windows laptop, and a linksys wag54g wireless modem/router. Currently the pc is plugged into one of the linksys' ports, and the laptop picks up the wireless network. The linksys' dhcp server is turned on. I want to set up a lan, but I can't figure out where or how to begin. Do I have to give static ip addresses (the laptop isn't going anywhere else anymore)? Or can it be done with dhcp? But then what do I put in the routing table? I've done a lot of reading about lan's, but I can't find the answers to the simple questions. I think I can figure out samba later on my own, but first the machines need to know about each other, right? All I need are a few pointers.

thanks

derxen

sorry i can't be more precise,

no problem :)

i'm not tempted to reproduce it though.

quite understandable B)

 

is your topic solved now or not yet? if yes, i will mark it as solved later.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

yes, go ahead. if i find a way to improve the acceleration, i'll report back, but for now let's consider it solved. thanks everyone.

derxen

sorry i can't be more precise, i should have kept the error message, but i was too stressed about getting the acceleration working. i did get the error consistently, even after a reinstall (don't ask). i'm not tempted to reproduce it though.

anyway, thanks everyone.

derxen

My guess is it was this:

 

Jul 15 15:03:00 localhost dkms: /etc/rc5.d/S04dkms: line 68: /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/7174/source/dkms.conf: No such file or directory

 

:D

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

that's the file, but the error message had something to do with files being mentioned in the conf file not being found.

derxen

could you specify that? what type of error in which conf file?

can't remember exactly what kind of error, sorry (cheked the logs, but couldn't find it), but it was in /var/lib/dkms/nvidia (or a subdirectory of it)

this is on a pentium 4 1.7 ghz, with 243 mb swap, 640 mb ram

derxen

btw: everytime i did a dkms remove, i got an error message about a bad dkms conf file.

derxen

i got rid of everything by rpm -e dkms-nvidia, as well as dkms, nvidia, and nvidia-kernel. i installed the nvidia package without a problem, but glx gears still seems choppy (seems to stop and start), and not very quick (around 1800 fps, with a geforce fx 5200). is that abnormal?

derxen