dude67 Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 (edited) I just upgraded to 2007.1 Spring from 2007.0. I've had my share of problems (including two full size 4.3 GB downloads gone sour), but eventually seem to be running the Spring version OK - except for a few problems. To make it easier to understand (for me, that is), I've separated my questions in different threads. I had no trouble at all using my external hard drives (LaCie brand) before upgrading, but since then (i.e. today) I cannot access any of them (I've got three of them on USB 2.0). All I get is this - what has gone wrong. I'm running the 64 bit version - as I did with 2007.0 Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1, missing codepage or other error In some cases usefule info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so Edited April 21, 2007 by dude67 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 22, 2007 Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 How are the drives configured? Did you set up their mount points manually or do you just rely on Mandriva's hotplugging support? What does /etc/fstab look like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted April 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 I didn't touch the mounts - I upgraded from 2007.0 to 2007.1 by smarturpmi. I thought I didn't need to do anything to re-mount them anew. Here's what /etc/fstab gives: /dev/sda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=utf8,ro 0 0 /dev/sda5 /mnt/win_d ntfs umask=0,nls=utf8,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda9 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 I guess sdb and sdc are not mounted? Am I correct? How do I mount them properly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted April 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Anyone? I tried to mount the drives, but the result is the same. Is there something broken in my 2007.1 installation? I had to upgrade through smart-urpmi, instead of the installation DVD I usually upgrade or re-install the system with. I couldn't find anything useful in syslog - but then again - I don't know what I was supposed to be looking for... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 (edited) Oh, I've got it! I think, anyway. I knew this one rang bells. Check what kernel you're running: uname -r I bet you're still on an older kernel - something like 2.6.17-5mdv. You need to update to the latest kernel, 2.6.17-13mdv. You should be able to install it via rpmdrake. Then reboot and it should work OK. Edited April 23, 2007 by adamw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted April 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 (edited) OK, that sounds promising. I'll try it when I get home tonight. I'll post back the results. If everything else fails, I can try to re-install the system. I should have downloaded by now a nice DVD image of 2007.1 now, so I can try to re-install the system. This time I used KTorrent, so I'm hoping it should be OK... Edited April 23, 2007 by dude67 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted April 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 (edited) OK, that worked, thank you! Have a virtual on me! My only problem - doing that - was that madwifi drivers didn't work with the new kernel... And I couldn't get new ones as I couldn't connect to the internet without my madwifi... Catch 22. I went to Win... to some other place... and downloaded the corresponding madwifi kernel version. Now I'm again back in Linux and able to surf the net. Another thing that now seems to be the problem: my wireless seems to drop me every two minutes... Edited April 23, 2007 by dude67 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 I should have downloaded by now a nice DVD image of 2007.1 now, so I can try to re-install the system. This is typical windows mentality, and it would be great for you to forget it for good. All problems in Linux (excluding very major changes, mainly glibc and gcc related) are solved by simple means: using your brains and any available tips/references, and not reinstalling. Factly, the latter usually ends up to a system as problematic as the previous one. Once you understand how Linux works, you will lose count how many months it will take until your next reinstall. Here I have not reinstalled my main OS since July, 2004, and I am by no means a Linux guru. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted April 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 In this case it would have helped, but I stand corrected. A clean install would have installed the new kernel, but this way I may have learned something new. :D Like always making sure to install the new kernel and how to check the version [uname -r] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 I've added this issue to the Errata now, since I've seen more than one person run into it: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandr..._when_connected As for the wireless, sorry, I haven't used madwifi since 2006 was current. It was always a touchy driver, though :\. I know it's a horrible suggestion, but you could try using ndiswrapper instead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted April 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 As for the wireless, sorry, I haven't used madwifi since 2006 was current. It was always a touchy driver, though :\. I know it's a horrible suggestion, but you could try using ndiswrapper instead? Yes, I've noticed that with madwifi. For some reason I couldn't get it to work with my older system and I had to use ndiswrapper. But with the new system I tried ndiswrapper first and I couldn't get that to work... I then tried madwifi and that worked like a charm...until now. It kinda works, but keeps dropping me every now and then. Go figure. :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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