yossarian Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Just mentioning that I have exactly the same problem, since upgrading from 2008.1 to 2009.0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Do you both have splashy installed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 (edited) Hello Tyme. It is white text on black Background.That means whatever Mandriva is using (I guess splashy?) to do the boot splash screen isn't working/loading (which is why splash=silent doesn't work, there's no splash to be silent! ;) ). Check to see if it's installed as adam suggests, and also make sure this file exists:/boot/initrd-2.6.27-desktop-0.rc8.2mnb.imgIt should, if you can boot - I think boot should fail if it can't find the initrd. Edited October 24, 2008 by tyme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted October 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Hi Adam and Tyme. Â I just checked in Mandriva-Spring, and I find that Splashy is NOT installed. Just tried to do a urpmi update from MCC and got an error message about the mirror site and now urpmi seems to be screwed up as a result. I cannot even install from the DVD. Â Will try to sort this out and come back to you. Â Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 (edited) is it saying that the rpm database is locked/in use? if so: # rm -f /var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK # rm -f /var/lib/urpmi/.RPMLOCK be sure neither rpm nor urpmi are running: ls -aux | grep rpm Edited October 24, 2008 by tyme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted October 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 Hello again Tyme. Â Yes I got that message but all I did was reboot. Took about 3 times as long in going to bios and about 4 times longer than usual in booting up but it got there. Slipped in the DVD and was able to install Splashy and its dependency no trouble. Â Rebooted again and this time got a Silent Splash ( had been verbose in the past ) in the closing down to bios, and on booting up got Silent Splash at long last. The closing down and booting up times were also pretty quick as normal. Phew. :D Â Have deliberately rebooted 5 times to make sure it is fixed at last. :thumbs: Â Thanks to EVERYONE who contributed to success on this case. The urpmi update is something I will look at in a while but if I need help resolving it I will start a new thread. This thread can now be called SOLVED. Â Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 Weird. I already have Splashy installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 (edited) it sounds like (note: this is a guess), for some reason, some necessary configuration files got axed. since it can't read the config properly, it just didn't work. Â yossarian: try uninstalling and re-installing splashy. Edited October 26, 2008 by tyme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 yossarian: try uninstalling and re-installing splashy. Â I uninstalled splashy. Due to dependencies it removed many packages, total of 78 MB. When I re-installed it, it added only this package (1.4 MB). Â Now when I login I get this error message :can't find theme 'mdk'". I get thrown to some default graphical window from which I login. Â How do I bring back the missing packages? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 Due to dependencies it removed many packages, total of 78 MB. Wow, that sounds like you've removed some of Gnome. Please attach the i-goofed.txt file in your ~/home directory created by rpm -qa | grep -i gnome > ~/i-goofed.txt to a post here. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 It returned empty! :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 You don't have an i-goofed.txt file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 Or maybe the file itself is empty. Where should I be looking it for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 OK, I found it in general search. Here is its content: Â libpolkit-gnome0-0.9.2-2mdv2009.0 gnome-media-2.24.0.1-1mdv2009.0 gnome-keyring-sharp-1.0.0-1mdv2009.0 synce-gnome-0.11-1mdv2008.1 libgnomeui2_0-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-system-monitor-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-python-gconf-2.22.3-1mdv2009.0 bluez-gnome-0.28-1mdv2009.0 libgnome-desktop-2_2-2.22.0-2mdv2008.1 task-wm5sync-gnome-1.0-6mdv2009.0 gnome-menus-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 libgnomeprint-2.18.5-2mdv2009.0 libgnomebt0-0.11.0-2mdv2009.0 gnome-panel-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 policykit-gnome-0.9.2-2mdv2009.0 libgnome2_0-2.24.1-2mdv2009.0 perl-Gnome2-Vte-0.08-5mdv2009.0 gnome-python-gnomevfs-2.22.3-1mdv2009.0 perl-Gnome2-Print-1.000-4mdv2009.0 gnome-utils-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-spell-1.0.8-3mdv2009.0 libgnomecanvas2_0-2.20.1.1-3mdv2009.0 gnome-power-manager-2.24.1-0.1mdv2009.0 gnome-keyring-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-settings-daemon-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-bluetooth-0.11.0-2mdv2009.0 libgnome-desktop-2_7-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 perl-Gnome2-Print-1.000-3mdv2008.1 gnome-applets-2.24.0.1-1mdv2009.0 gnome-speech-0.4.21-1mdv2009.0 libgail-gnome-1.20.1-1mdv2009.0 libgnomeui2-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-desktop-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 libgnomeprintui2-2_0-2.18.3-2mdv2009.0 python-gnome-menus-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-user-docs-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-mplayer-0.7.0-1mdv2009.0 openoffice.org-gnome-3.0-0.rc2.2mdv2009.0 gnome-python-bonobo-2.22.3-1mdv2009.0 libgnomecups-0.2.3-2mdv2009.0 gnome-session-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 libgnomeprint2-2_0-2.18.5-2mdv2009.0 ia_ora-gnome-1.0.20-1mdv2009.0 libgnome-window-settings1-2.24.0.1-2mdv2009.0 libia_ora-gnome-1.0.20-1mdv2009.0 libgnomespeech7-0.4.21-1mdv2009.0 gnome-vfs2-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-icon-theme-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 libgnomekbd1-2.20.0-2mdv2008.0 libgnomebreakpad-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-python-applet-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 libgnomecups-1.0_1-0.2.3-2mdv2009.0 gnome-sharp2-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-volume-manager-2.24.0-2mdv2009.0 gnome-screensaver-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 openssh-askpass-gnome-5.1p1-2mdv2009.0 libgnomecanvas-2.20.1.1-3mdv2009.0 libgnomeprintui-2.18.3-2mdv2009.0 gnome-python-nautilus-burn-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-desktop-common-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-python-canvas-2.22.3-1mdv2009.0 gnome-doc-utils-0.14.0-1mdv2009.0 libgnome-pilot2-2.0.16-2mdv2009.0 gnome-control-center-2.24.0.1-2mdv2009.0 libgnome2-2.24.1-2mdv2009.0 gnome-desktop-sharp-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-python-desktop-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-python-totem-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-python-gtkhtml2-2.19.1-20mdv2009.0 gnomeradio-1.7-3mdv2009.0 gnome-terminal-2.24.0-2mdv2009.0 libgnomekbd2-2.22.0-1mdv2008.1 gnome-mount-0.8-4mdv2009.0 gnome-python-gtkmozembed-2.19.1-20mdv2009.0 libgnome-vfs2_0-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 libgnome-keyring0-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-themes-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 libgnome-menu2-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-mime-data-2.18.0-4mdv2009.0 gnome-speech-driver-espeak-0.4.21-1mdv2009.0 gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs-0.10.20-2mdv2009.0 gnome-python-2.22.3-1mdv2009.0 gnome-python-extras-2.19.1-20mdv2009.0 libgnomekbd-common-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 gnome-audio-2.22.2-2mdv2009.0 libgnomekbd3-2.24.0-1mdv2009.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 yossarian, I'd suggest that you start with installing the task-gnome-minimal and the gdm packages with your gui package manager or urpmi. This should install most of what you lost. If you still have problems, try reinstalling the complete task-gnome package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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