phatsteve Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Help! I can't login anymore. KDE has dissapeared, my login screen has completely changed to MDE! There is no KDE entry in sessions only Icewm, drak3d, default, failsafe,& custom, none of which work.I can login in terminal but when I issue 'startx' all I get is a blue screen with 2 open terminal boxes. This all happened after I after I went here:- www.mde.djura.org and enabled Mandriva Enhanced RPMs. Afterwards there were 119 updates installed, after a reboot nothing worked! At the Grub screen I have tried every kernel option available, still no good.I don't want re-install if I can help it as I had things set up just right.I am using 2007-1 Spring, KDE version. Can anybody please help? [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Most likely the update didnt complete because not everything was uploaded, did you use smart and enable all repositories like plf and contrib? Possible something also went wrong with updating your videodriver from a command line run: smart update smart upgrade and see what happens.... if you cannot even get into icewm run XFdrake and select the open source (non propietary driver) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orts Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 If you are using urpmi instead of smart (as suggested by ffi) then try this in the shell, log in as root and type this urpmi.removemedia MDE Next you type urpme kdebase kdebase-common You can remove ALL of your kde packages with this command instead, but I don't think this is necessary rpm -e --nodeps `rpm -qa | grep -i kde | grep 3.5` After removing type this in the shell urpmi kdebase kdebase-common kdebase-kdm Then you should be up and running again. I've tried this my self and I don't use MDE as a reposity very mouch anymore ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatsteve Posted June 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 This is what happens with smart update $ smart update error: Configuration is in readonly mode. How do I run xfdrake? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 You need to be root, type su and then your root password first.... btw it is XFdrake not xfdrake, linux is case sensitive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatsteve Posted June 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Orts, I tried your suggestion and received this reply:- packages cannot be installed(kdebase etc) due to missing unsatisfied liblazy.so.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 (edited) Thats because probably you didnt correctly set up your urpmi repositories, urpmi and smart repositories are set up separatedly . Did you use smart like MDE recommended? If so so do: smart install kdebase kdebase-common kdebase-kdm and you should be back again if you really need a graphical enviroment you could install xfce with smart install task-xfce and then start it with startxfce4 (if kdm or gdm don't work) and then fix kde from xfce Edited June 20, 2007 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatsteve Posted June 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Thankyou ffi, I did what you said and logged in as root, and am running smart update now (it's my laptop with problem, I'm emailing from my desktop) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatsteve Posted June 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 I'm running smart upgrade now, it's been saying 'Computing transaction...' for 15 mins with no hdd activity, is this normal? The nic light flashes intermittantly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orts Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 I hope that you can use ffi's advice, if not you can update urpmi by this command urpmi.update -a But it only works if you have set urpmi with source lists from http://www.mandrivausers.org/easyurpmi/index.php ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatsteve Posted June 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Still saying 'Computing transaction...' 30 mins now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 don't what processor you have but big upgrades can take few minutes on my p4 2.4 Ghz, it might also be possible that mde have disabled the use of the python jit compiler making smart even slower but makes it accept ctrl+c to stop the program (see the smart wiki pages) or you have very little memory: Speeding up “smart” on low memory systems Since I started using “smart” instead of “urpmi” in Mandriva, I noticed it was very slow sometimes, when compared to urpmi or apt-get. Today, talking with Niemeyer on #smart, he asked me to try disabling the Psyco Python JIT. It happens that I have a slow system (Pentium II 366MHz) with relatively little memory (128MB), and I need some heavy apps loaded all the time (although using Fluxbox, not KDE). Psyco is a JIT (just-in-time compiler) for Python, that aims to make apps run faster. Niemeyer says that using it should improve smart speed very good in most systems, and his benchmarks proved that. But reading a little in Psyco docs there is a note: “Drawbacks: Psyco currently uses a lot of memory.” So, I’m pretty sure that in my specific case the problem that makes smart slow is the memory consumption, not the optimizations. Disabling it, makes smart run pretty faster to me, but it’s just because it uses less memory, so it needs less swap (and my HD is reeeealy slow). So, if you want to test the differences of having Psyco or not on your system, try adding -o psyco=0 to your smart command line, and test. If you want to make it permanent, use smart config --set psyco=0. Niemeyer also asked me to do some benchmarks to see why it’s faster without Psyco, but I’m too lazy to do it now. Whenever I get this done (sometime in the future) I’ll post the results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatsteve Posted June 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Tried smart install kdebase etc, received this message:- error: Can't install kdebase-common-1:3.5.6-34mdv2007.1@i586: it's conflicted by the locked package kdebase-2-3.5.7-mde2007.1@i586 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatsteve Posted June 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 P4 2.5 Ghz, 512 ram laptop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 use the --ignore-locks locks flag ie smart install --ignore-locks kdebase kdebase-common kdebase-kdm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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