Hi all!
I dual boot win98 + Mandrake 8.1
Questions:
What would it take to solve this problem?
Would reinstalling lm8.1 be quicker and easier?
The situation seems pretty bad and a search on google makes me even more
confused as to what could be the solution.
Problem:
KDE or any other window manager won't start anymore. The graphic login only
has two options: previous and failsafe, neither of which get anything
started. There are quite a few error messages that appear during the machine
booting sequence.
I recently added a new FAT32 partition using diskdrake and then formated it
under win98. I needed the new partitions so that I could install office2000.
(I unfortunately still need that because of the lacking chinese support
under linux - I still haven't been able to get it working properly - I am
told that sylpheed will allow me to ditch outlook express... yeeeepeee!
:-D ). I think part of the problem is related to this (something about too
many partitions being mounted...).
Here is part of the var/boot.log
Nov 22 22:55:14 localhost mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad
superblock on /dev/hda10,
Nov 22 22:55:14 localhost mount: or too many mounted file systems
Nov 22 22:55:14 localhost netfs: Mounting other filesystems: failed
***hda10 is the partition I recently added...
Nov 22 22:54:52 localhost loadkeys: findkeymap: No such file or directory
Nov 22 22:54:52 localhost loadkeys: cannot open file compose.latin1.inc
Nov 22 22:54:52 localhost keytable: Loading compose keys: compose.latin1.inc
failed
Nov 22 22:54:55 localhost fndSession: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
Nov 22 22:54:55 localhost fndSession: perl: warning: Please check that your
locale settings:
Nov 22 22:54:55 localhost fndSession: ^ILANGUAGE = (unset),
Nov 22 22:54:55 localhost fndSession: ^ILC_ALL = (unset),
Nov 22 22:54:55 localhost fndSession: ^ILANG = en
Nov 22 22:54:55 localhost fndSession: are supported and installed on
your system.
Nov 22 22:54:55 localhost fndSession: perl: warning: Falling back to the
standard locale (C).
Nov 22 22:54:56 localhost fndSession: Can't locate loadable object for
module File::Glob in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at
/usr/sbin/chksession line 73
Nov 22 22:54:56 localhost fndSession: Compilation failed in require at
/usr/sbin/chksession line 73.
Nov 22 22:54:56 localhost fndSession: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/sbin/chksession line 73.
***the part about local settings being unset puzzles me because I didn't
touch anything about that since install (a part from the user settings in
home/user/)
Nov 22 22:54:56 localhost mandrake_everytime: Building Window Manager
Sessions failed
Nov 22 22:54:58 localhost bastille-firewall: Setting up general rules...
Nov 22 22:54:58 localhost bastille-firewall: iptables v1.2.2:
Nov 22 22:54:58 localhost bastille-firewall: invalid TCP port/service
`linuxconf' specified
Nov 22 22:54:58 localhost bastille-firewall: Try `iptables -h' or
'iptables --help' for more information.
Nov 22 22:54:58 localhost bastille-firewall: done.
Nov 22 22:55:21 localhost net_cnx_up: SIOCDELRT: No such process
Nov 22 22:55:21 localhost net_cnx_up: .
Nov 22 22:55:27 localhost last message repeated 3 times
Nov 22 22:55:30 localhost start: Starting Webmin server in /usr/share/webmin
Nov 22 22:55:30 localhost start: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
Nov 22 22:55:30 localhost start: perl: warning: Please check that your
locale settings:
Nov 22 22:55:30 localhost start: ^ILANGUAGE = (unset),
Nov 22 22:55:30 localhost start: ^ILC_ALL = (unset),
Nov 22 22:55:30 localhost start: ^ILANG = "en"
Nov 22 22:55:30 localhost start: are supported and installed on your
system.
Nov 22 22:55:30 localhost start: perl: warning: Falling back to the standard
locale ("C").
Nov 22 22:55:30 localhost start: Can't locate loadable object for module
Sys::Hostname in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at
/usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl line 8
Nov 22 22:55:30 localhost start: Compilation failed in require at
/usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl line 8.
Nov 22 22:55:30 localhost start: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl line 8.
Nov 22 22:55:30 localhost webmin: Starting Webmin failed
Can anyone make any sense out of it and point to a solution... or I'd be
better to reinstall...
Thanks for your help,
Anguo
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