derxen

Thanks. I just updated the system menu and it's back to normal. Weird bug that, I never came across it before.

I assumed that something got a little wonky during an update, so I rebooted. Bad idea: Gnome got flaky

Yeah, rebooting was my first reflex too, but I managed to control myself.

it didn't bring them back the way they had previously been: Where the gnome menu once contained all the mandrake items (Amusements, Applications, etc), it now has a submenu for "Mandrake," and that submenu contains the additional items.

Hmm. So it might still go wrong. I'll tell you what happened after starting up tomorrow.

derxen

I updated gconf, gconf 2 and orbit last night (plus a few of the other bugfixes on Mandrake update), and now a large part of the gnome menu is gone, including all the pretty icons (just folder icons now). This happened before, when I installed icewm-gnome, and I 'solved' it then by removing icewm-gnome. Does anyone know how this happens and what to do about it?

derxen

What helps is if you set the keyboard in the Mandrake Control Center to middle european or something like that. Then for instance if you do " + e you get an e with two dots over it. Experiment a bit with the various keyboard settings in MCC.

derxen

I have nothing useful to add, except that I have the same problem. I had it on 9.1, but I thought it was because I had put OOo1.1 in /opt, and gnome couldn't find it. But now I have 9.2 with the rpm of OOo1.1, which installs in /usr, and the file-association doesn't work.

When I have a bit of time, I'll check the gnome usergroups to see whether there is a solution.

derxen

re log files: check the /var/log/ directory. It should all be there.

derxen

I sent MandrakeClub an email about this, and their very prompt answer was that it will be corrected shortly.

derxen

It worked! I set up the same contrib media as anna, with the same paths etcetera, and it works fine. The problem must have been MandrakeClub's easy urpmi settings. I had set up a contrib media via their easy urpmi, and evidently it gives you the wrong paths. I hope they correct it soon.

Thanks everyone for your help.

derxen

anna

I did a fresh install of 9.2, keeping my /home folder. Install wasn't flawless, I stupidly tried to resize /home and got into trouble, so I re-installed. Everything seems to work fine now however, so I doubt it has anything to do with it.

my lists are not empty at all, all descriptions are there!

In my urpmi.cfg list.contrib is missing, contrib uses hdlist2, and the relative path to hdlist2 is different. I'll try setting up contrib with the same mirror and path later, and see what happens.

derxen

Done more research: using the -v option in urpmi gives a.o. the message curl failed exit signal 9 or 0.

derxen

I checked in the Software Media Manager, and there is a key there for contrib, the same as for the cd's. Update and plf have different keys. I also checked on the ftp site for a filelist, and there is one, but it's empty. But it's also empty on the site anna mentioned. How does urpmi generate that list ?

derxen

I'm not sure the missing signature is the problem, I think it's a symptom of the real cause. Because when I get the missing signature message, and I answer that I want to install anyway (it always worked for me too), I get a new error message, simply saying 'there was an error during installation: unable to install package such and so'. And from the command line, it's just 'Installation failed, some files are missing: [package name]. You may want to update your urpmi database.' But I have tried that and it didn't make a difference.

derxen

More info: in var/lib/urpmi I do find a names file for the contrib source, as well as a hdlist and synthesis, but no list file. So that's probably the reason why urpmi cannot find the packages. But on the other hand there is no list file for the three cd's either.

Still baffled.

derxen

Hello all,

I've upgraded to 9.2. I have added a contrib media to urpmi, but now when I want to install something via the GUI, I get a missing signature error. When I try via the command line, the error line is 'some files are missing'. I've tried several contrib mirrors, each time with the same result.

Does anyone know anything I could try to fix this?

derxen

Off the top of my head: eroaster, k3b, x-cdroast, gcombust, gtoaster. I use x-cdroast, and I' m happy with it. They' re all on the cd' s.

And welcome to the board. What version do you have?

derxen

I managed to install texstar's gnome 2.4 this morning, after failing last night. For some reason urpmi did not pick up most of the dependencies, so I ended up guessing which libs etc belong to gnome. So it works now, but I have one problem left: gnome-terminal doesn't start. I get this error message:

gnome-terminal: relocation error: gnome-terminal: undefined symbol: vte_terminal_set_scroll_background

Does anybody know what that means and how to mend it?

This is gnome-terminal-2.4.0.1-2mdk

derxen

What other necessary measures do I need to take ? Do I need to remove the old version ?

There are excellent instructions in the readme in the tarball, and there is an even better installation guide (pdf) included. Just untar+unzip and read carefully. But the short answer is: no you won't have to remove the old version.

derxen

Thanks again. I'll try to find out if the situation is the same with the purple one.

derxen

Thanks a lot. I have a speedtouch and will be upgrading to 9.2 at some point, and this will surely save me a lot of time. And I have lost a *lot* of time with the speedtouch.

Just to check: it is 'speedtch', not 'speedtouch'?

And is this for the blue/green or the purple speedtouch, or both?

And do you know why this extra line is necessary?

derxen

I did it via MCC, just like Chris. Halfway through I realised it might not be a good idea, but everything was installed without a hitch. There was one error message 'could not write to tmp file', but everything runs fine. I do have an NVIDIA card, with the glx installed, and as far as I can see, there is no problem.

But it does seem wiser to do it via cli.

derxen

mc, and very occasionally nautilus.

I just ordered a lite-on cd rw/dvdrom for ~55 bucks. Hopefully it will install

Btw: that's quite a bargain. Good luck with the install.

derxen

It was just a loose ide cable. It's one of those plugs that feels as if it's connected, but it isn't. Applied a bit more force, and now it's fine. What suprises me is that with a loose cable, there can still be some detection. You would think that it's an all or nothing kind of thing, not that you get the kind of garbled detection that I got.

Anyway, thanks for all the help. I hadn't realised you must use the BIOS for basic detection.

And now for some serious burning.

derxen

Thanks for that. I have the reader as primary slave and the burner as secondary master, and the lilo set as you indicate. I just tried the BIOS, and sure enough: it gives 'not installed'. So are you saying I should check the jumper on the cd-rw again? There is no jumper to set on the mobo.

derxen

Hi everyone,

I bought a phillips 5224 cd-rw. I took out my cd-rom and installed the cd-rw in its place as hdb. It was detected, although not straight away I seem to remember, and after fiddling about with the fstab and lilo.conf everything worked perfectly. Then I got reckless and installed the cd-rom again, as hdb, and moved the cd-rw to hdc. I switched the jumper to master. I changed the lilo.conf and the fstab accordingly. Then I checked harddrake to see whether it was detected correctly, and it wasn't: its name was garbled, and it wasn't recognized as a burner. Sure enough, it doesn't burn. I've tried a lot of things, mainly changes to the fstab, and I've checked the connections and cables, but no luck. It only got worse: for a while it was 'detected' as a tape device, now it's not detected at all anymore.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I really don't know what to try anymore.

derxen

If I specified the mount point to be / (root), doesn't it basically solve my problem? I mean I could create a new parition with bigger size and then just use DiskDrake to move the whole old linux partition to the new one and in a sense, I just "increased" the size of my linux partition?

Also, you would still be left with an empty space, though smaller.

derxen