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Yes, sorry I am using KDE. I will add that line and see what happens this weekend, which is when I'm usually gone. Thank you New2MDK

It seems that if my PC is turned off for a night or so, usually only when I'm not around, then I do boot up the next day or when I return, the boot process is fine. Then it take 1-5 minutes for the login prompt to appear. Then, after I sign in, it takes another few minutes for the desktop to appear and usually signs in at around 80%, not having restored everything (such as the taskbar, start menu. Maybe after 5 or so minutes that stuff will appear, but from that point, everything runs like junk. So I reboot it, then there is absolutely no problem. I never shut down my PC unless I know I'll be gone for a day or two or longer. Does anyone know how to avoid this, other than just not shutting down. Thank you, New2MDK

Please close this out. It's telling me, what I'm trying to install is installed. Be that as it may, I have no clue of the Enable and Config directions. So for me case closed, so this can be closed. Thank you New2MDK

Hello, I'm trying/wanting to install 'Java Runtime Environment' in Mandrake 10.1. The instructions it gives are very easy to follow. Then it has a link to Enable and Configure, and the only options are for Mozilla 1.2, netscape 6 and later or Mozilla 1.4 and later. I know Firefox is Mozilla, but 1.2 or 1.4 or does it not matter? In case anyone is curious to what I'm talking about, you can see here Instructions Linux JRE Thanks in advance NEW2MDK

Thanks guys, I should of know how obvious that was, sorry

Are .tgz files installed as per the FAQs for installing .tar.gz files or is this a new routine I need to learn? thank you

Thank you, I was able to delete all, thanks for your suggestion.

The thing is adamw, when I originally installed firefox the only option I had was to double click the icon 'FIREFOX-INSTALLER', apparently that is incorrect. In the FAQs I seen all that process was suppose to happen, however, I wasn't able to perform that. However, it still installed and I haven't had any problems using it. I want to uninstall it only to reinstall it , as I'm trying to become more proficient using CLI. So, did I mess things up by installing it that way? Making it impossible to uninstall? please advise, Thank you

After reading FAQs, I learned how to install rpm's and .tar.gz through CLI, but there was nothing about how to uninstall. If I wanted to uninstall an RPM, I could remove it with rpmdrake. How would I remove a .tar.gz. I googled it, and the explanation I got is not meant for a newbies eye's Thank you for any input, take care New2MDK

Thank you anyways Marked the tread Solved - Artificial Intelligence

I'm pretty certain I hit DEL not ESC. But what would of even prompted that to happen? Thanks

I was kicking much butt while playing LBreakout2, all of a sudden the game window disappeared and I was looking at my desktop. Everything including the mouse was froze. So I went to reboot and instinctivly I hit CTRL+ALT+DEL, thinking I was in Windows (force of habit). Then my mouse pointer turned into a skull and bones. Either I have a version of Mandrake 10.1 that accepts virus' or I'm seeing things. Does anyone know which it is? And if so is there anything further, in the way of security, I should be doing? Thank you New2MDK

After doing the 'free' RAM wasn't the problem, and 'top' showed no hogs. But then again, I'm using gnome instead, so I assume KDE was the hog. This morning when I booted up, I noticed I had no taskbar. Can that be accessed through CLI, or any other way? Thank you all very much

Since I had no clue what was going on and my system was running like crap, I decided to do a clean install using GNOME. During installation, I was able to pick and choose what services started at boot. Most were obvious, but several I wasn't sure of so I left them at the default to run. Bluetooth, crond, dm, fam, hotplug, keytable, kheader, mailman, messagebus, ntpd, rawdevices, xfs and xinetd. Are those best running? I'm not running any servers at all. finally, I booted up for the first time on this install and after login I got the following: Could not look up internet address for gianluca. This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by adding gianluca to the file /etc/hosts. LOG IN ANYWAY TRY AGAIN so I logged in anyway. Everything seems fine, I haven't done anything. Although I've done nothing, I can honestly tell you, gnome seems to run better than KDE. If you could please, assist me with those serviices from above. I guess I need to update before anything anyway with easy_urpmi, do you suggest any other updating? Thanks again, this board has been very patient and helpful, thank you NEW2MDK

I have no idea what is going on. I installed Mandrake 10.1, mainly to learn the command line and to have a more smooth running/stable environment. I only use Internet, email, OpenOffice, CD Burning (although K3B is giving me issues), finances and as I said I want to learn more of the command lline. But the main reason was, to hopefully scrap M$ eventually altogether. As of Now, I feel like I never left Windows. I don't know if it's KDE itself, or just not enough RAM. I use 256 which I know isnt a lot, but it ran XP Pro pretty darn well. I was told Linux handles memory much much better. I have yet to see that. If anyone has any ideas/pointers to why I'm having this problem, please advise me. I use a P3 930, 256RAM, 2 20GIG hard drives. I don't want to rely on M$ anymore, please help me. Let me know if you think a different distro might work better, please Thank you, NEW2MDK

arctic, this would happen anyway I would launch it, but every other time I was able to kill the PID and never got that bug error, I don't know why I did this last time.

Sorry about that. I wouldn't say I solved it. I couldn't kill k3b's PID for some reason, everytime I did, it showed as still running and I could see it was because of the splash screen. The only thing I could think of, was to go into MCC through the terminal and uninstall that package. Then I rebooted and that bug never returned either, so I think its safe to assume that the bug came from k3b. I think. Thx and sorry about that, NEW2MDK

Please cancel this topic Thank you

Everytime I open "k3b" it just hands and hangs on the splash screen. After 5 minuutes of just hanging there, I terminate the program. However, anytime I reboot, "k3b" splash screen is there just hanging again. This time I have no way of terminating it, as my whole taskbar disappears. I try to kill the PID, but its not shown as running. Anyway, could someone help me to get rid of the process? I was adjusting different settings within te KDE desktop configuration > lookNfeel, not sure what I hit, but it resulted in a crash: KDE Panel (kicker) crashed and caused the signal 6 (SIGABRT). (no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 1095957440 (LWP 5883)] (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...0xffffe410 in ?? () #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () #1 0xbfffd21c in ?? () #2 0x00000000 in ?? () #3 0x00000000 in ?? () #4 0x412e52b3 in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 #5 0x4078c80e in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #6 <signal handler called> #7 0xffffe410 in ?? () #8 0xbfffd520 in ?? () #9 0x00000006 in ?? () #10 0x000016fb in ?? () #11 0x41436805 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #12 0x414381e9 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #13 0x4142ff01 in __assert_fail () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #14 0x408927d0 in art_render_image_solid () from /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2 #15 0x408a1aa0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2 #16 0x408a1b13 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2 #17 0x00000151 in ?? () #18 0x408a1a20 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2 #19 0x40845ac4 in kde_malloc_is_used () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #20 0x00000000 in ?? () #21 0xbfffd6f0 in ?? () #22 0x40808fc3 in malloc () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #23 0x4089179f in art_render_invoke_callbacks () from /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2 I went to the following site bug reporting as per the crash splash screen, to report it. However, it had been reported before, but had no solution to it Can anyone help me with that? I would really appreciate it Thank you NEW2MDK

I was unable to find an executible to make an icon for mplayer. I did run updatedb as root and got the following: updatedb [root@gian]# mp mpage mpartition mpeglibartsplay mplayer [root@ gian]# mplayer MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.4.1 © 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville 1176 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 6) Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection. Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs Usage: mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename Basic options: (complete list in the man page) -vo <drv[:dev]> select video output driver & device ('-vo help' for a list) -ao <drv[:dev]> select audio output driver & device ('-ao help' for a list) vcd://<trackno> play (S)VCD (Super Video CD) track (raw device, no mount) dvd://<titleno> play DVD title from device instead of plain file -alang/-slang select DVD audio/subtitle language (by 2-char country code) -ss <timepos> seek to given (seconds or hh:mm:ss) position -nosound do not play sound -fs fullscreen playback (or -vm, -zoom, details in the man page) -x <x> -y <y> set display resolution (for use with -vm or -zoom) -sub <file> specify subtitle file to use (also see -subfps, -subdelay) -playlist <file> specify playlist file -vid x -aid y select video (x) and audio (y) stream to play -fps x -srate y change video (x fps) and audio (y Hz) rate -pp <quality> enable postprocessing filter (details in the man page) -framedrop enable frame dropping (for slow machines) Basic keys: (complete list in the man page, also check input.conf) <- or -> seek backward/forward 10 seconds up or down seek backward/forward 1 minute pgup or pgdown seek backward/forward 10 minutes < or > step backward/forward in playlist p or SPACE pause movie (press any key to continue) q or ESC stop playing and quit program + or - adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 second o cycle OSD mode: none / seekbar / seekbar + timer * or / increase or decrease PCM volume z or x adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 second r or t adjust subtitle position up/down, also see -vf expand * * * SEE THE MAN PAGE FOR DETAILS, FURTHER (ADVANCED) OPTIONS AND KEYS * * * Not sure what that means Thank you NEW2MDK

Hello everyone, after having my MDK set as I wanted, I thought, I uninstalled an application, which apparently had an important file(s) to boot into KDE. So of couse, being new to all this I reinstalled. During installation I noticed Mplayer was being installed, along with it's streaming audio/video counterparts. However, I am unable to locate that program. Any ideas how I could find where its located as well as make a desktop icon for it? Thank you very much, NEW2MDK

Can someone please recommend a program that will allow me to hear/view streaming audio. I have been unable to get my feel of Glenn Beck in the mornings, and I don't have a portable radio handy. Does anyone know of any programs? Thank you,

I'm sorry, I probably explained myself wrong. "After" the clean install all worked and is working well. It was when I only partitioned / that, that was happening. Thanks again, New2MDK

arctic, since I was able to enter Mandrake with WindowMaker, I just used it to make backups of what I wanted to keep. Then I did a fresh install. First I did what you recommended, and my files were saved, however, even after reformatting the / partition, it still booted the same way when I was having problems. Anyway, Thanks for everything, I appreciate it. New2MDK