janet.doe Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 (edited) Ok, I installed mandriva 2006 free yesterday and again today. There is a little problem (ok, it's a big problem ) can't use either firefox or thunderbird. When I try to launch thunderbird or firefox (those that comes with mandriva 2006) my whole computer gets messed up and all that helps is taking power of the computer. Then if I get rid of those that came with 2006 and download newer versions I can't get them working, from ksysguard I see that firefox is running, but it's not. What can I do? Oh, I'm using mozilla now and this works just fine. And just now, when I'm writing this I got an error message that says that kded server went down - second time I see this message today. Please help me, I don't know what to do. Thanks. Edited November 17, 2005 by janet.doe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 When you burned the CDs, did you make an md5sum check? Sounds like corrupt packages imho. You could try uninstalling the broken packages and reinstall them. Maybe that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Ther are updates (already) for Mandriva tools. Before doing anything else, I would install the updates. Did you run md5sum on the iso's prior to burning? Are you using good media and burning at slower speeds? Your description sounds like a bad burn/download to me. I have not had any trouble with firefox thru the release candidates and on the final. You could always download the firefox rpm from the mirrors and then install that rpm. But this would only work if my suspicions of a bad burn/download were true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janet.doe Posted November 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 md5sums are ok and I burned with 4x speed. with these same cd's my friend installed mandi to a laptop and everything works fine there. And updates I have installed too. Tried to install firefox from rpm, but it's not working no matter what I do. Maybe I'll install again tomorrow and if this doesn't start working I'll go back to 2005... If any ideas please let me know. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 This has been noted in the erratta you will find the solution here: http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main...la_based_softwa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janet.doe Posted November 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2005 Hi again. I installed again and now everything works. Maybe I installed some broken package or something earlier, this time I didn't install anything but that I know I'm gonna need someday. Thanks for help and have fun with mandriva! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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