Re: [newbie] lost display manager in 10.0
On Friday 14 May 2004 15:06, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 14 May 2004 19:54, Ed Chadwick wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 15:24, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 21:14, Ed Chadwick wrote: Thanks, but I already checked that, and it's set to 5 as it should be. Ed. On Thursday 13 May 2004 15:12, you wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 20:47, Ed Chadwick wrote: Hello all, I've just upgraded from 9.2 to 10.0, and for the most part it went smoothly. The only trouble I'm having is with the display manager (kdm). i.e. The system boots up into a console, and I have to login and start X manually. I can't find where this is in the config to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. A suggestion : su to root, open /etc/inittab in your preferred editor. Somewhere in this file you'll find a stanza like : id:3:initdefault: Change 3 to 5, save, exit and reboot. Well, have you tried the K menu : System -- Configure Your Computer -- System -- Display Manager ? Kaj Haulrich. And Ed, please remove your reply to setting in your mailer, otherwise replies don't get to the list. And please use bottom-posting (seems I'm the list nazi today :-)). Thanks again Kaj. I looked for this in the menus but couldn't find it. The closest I have is System -- Configuration -- KDE -- System -- Login Manager, which appears to be set up correctly. I did get in a bit of a tangle with KDE during the upgrade though. I had KDE3.1 with Mandrake 9.2 previously, but I failed to remove KDE before the upgrade, which I should have done apparently. So after the upgrade I had both KDE3.1 and 3.2 stuff. I then removed everything to do with KDE (urpme -a kde) and reinstalled only the 3.2 apps. Is there something else I should have done to clean up the mess? Thanks again, Ed. Hmm... Ed, maybe your situation stems from the upgrade. When I shuffled the 10.0CE into my previous 9.2 system I chose install. But opted not to format my /home partition. I think this is the 2.nd safest route next to doing a complete wipe of the hard disk. I still have some dot-files left over from 9.2 causing weird things in 10.0, but nothing serious. Funny thing is, however, I'm absolutely sure that in 9.2 one can change display managers as well. So you should have the option preserved in 10.0. And about urpme -a kde : I don't think that's necessary. When something in KDE goes south beyond recovery, it's an easy thing just to remove your entire .kde directory. That way, the next time you log into KDE, it will use the default configurations. No big deal. My last idea : have you installed all the updates to 10.0 ? If that doesn't work, someone wiser than me : step in, please. Kaj Haulrich. Problem is solved now. For some reason, the Control Centre wasn't included in the default installation. Thanks, Ed Chadwick. -- Edward K.J. Chadwick PhD. Department of Biomedical Engineering Wickenden Building 404 Case Western Reserve University 10900 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, OH 44106-7207 USA phone: +1 216 368 0400 fax:+1 216 368 4872 mobile: +1 216 235 8239 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official
On Monday 17 May 2004 15:09, lake-wind wrote: I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it didn't install and how to install it? I just had the same problem. Assuming you've got your sources set up, do (as root): urpmi drakconf For instructions on how to use urpmi, see: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/eggnbacon/docs/urpmi-howto/ http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3460 Hope this helps. Ed Chadwick. -- Edward K.J. Chadwick PhD. Department of Biomedical Engineering Wickenden Building 404 Case Western Reserve University 10900 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, OH 44106-7207 USA phone: +1 216 368 0400 fax:+1 216 368 4872 mobile: +1 216 235 8239 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official
On May 17, 2004, at 4:44 PM, lake-wind wrote: Thanks for replying. I only had the cd sources set up for urpmi and prior to my post, when I tried urpmi drakconf I got an error message stating there was no such package. So, apparently on my 5 cd set, drakconf does not exist. I took your advice, set up my sources from one of the mirrors, ran urpmi again and it installed perfectly. The only thing that I can think of is that there must have been an error when I compiled the 5 ISO discs after downloading the entire i586 directory tree. There were no error messages during the compilation. But, maybe something went awry and for some reason drakconf was not included on the discs. I wonder if anything else is missing? You stated that you had the same problem. Did you compile your own ISO's or did you download the ISO's from the Mandrake Club? Thanks for your help. On Monday 17 May 2004 03:37 pm, Ed Chadwick wrote: On Monday 17 May 2004 15:09, lake-wind wrote: I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it didn't install and how to install it? I just had the same problem. Assuming you've got your sources set up, do (as root): urpmi drakconf For instructions on how to use urpmi, see: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/eggnbacon/docs/urpmi-howto/ http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php? name=Newsfile=articlesid=3460 Hope this helps. Ed Chadwick. -- Registered Linux User: 271967 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Actually I didn't use ISOs at all. I had a 9.2 installation, which I upgraded to 10.0 by changing my sources and following the procedure described here: urpmi.removemedia (old sources) urpmi.addmedia (new sources) (or use your new Control Centre!) then urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select --no-verify-rpm --auto urpmi kernel I should have removed KDE3.1 first though, as I was left with a mix of 3.1 and 3.2 packages which didn't fully cooperate with one another. Ed. -- Edward K.J. Chadwick PhD. Department of Biomedical Engineering Wickenden Building 404 Case Western Reserve University 10900 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, OH 44106-7207 USA phone: +1 216 368 0400 fax:+1 216 368 4872 mobile: +1 216 235 8239 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] lost display manager in 10.0
On Thursday 13 May 2004 15:24, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 21:14, Ed Chadwick wrote: Thanks, but I already checked that, and it's set to 5 as it should be. Ed. On Thursday 13 May 2004 15:12, you wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 20:47, Ed Chadwick wrote: Hello all, I've just upgraded from 9.2 to 10.0, and for the most part it went smoothly. The only trouble I'm having is with the display manager (kdm). i.e. The system boots up into a console, and I have to login and start X manually. I can't find where this is in the config to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. A suggestion : su to root, open /etc/inittab in your preferred editor. Somewhere in this file you'll find a stanza like : id:3:initdefault: Change 3 to 5, save, exit and reboot. Well, have you tried the K menu : System -- Configure Your Computer -- System -- Display Manager ? Kaj Haulrich. And Ed, please remove your reply to setting in your mailer, otherwise replies don't get to the list. And please use bottom-posting (seems I'm the list nazi today :-)). Thanks again Kaj. I looked for this in the menus but couldn't find it. The closest I have is System -- Configuration -- KDE -- System -- Login Manager, which appears to be set up correctly. I did get in a bit of a tangle with KDE during the upgrade though. I had KDE3.1 with Mandrake 9.2 previously, but I failed to remove KDE before the upgrade, which I should have done apparently. So after the upgrade I had both KDE3.1 and 3.2 stuff. I then removed everything to do with KDE (urpme -a kde) and reinstalled only the 3.2 apps. Is there something else I should have done to clean up the mess? Thanks again, Ed. -- Edward K.J. Chadwick PhD. Department of Biomedical Engineering Wickenden Building 404 Case Western Reserve University 10900 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, OH 44106-7207 USA phone: +1 216 368 0400 fax:+1 216 368 4872 mobile: +1 216 235 8239 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] lost display manager in 10.0
Hello all, I've just upgraded from 9.2 to 10.0, and for the most part it went smoothly. The only trouble I'm having is with the display manager (kdm). i.e. The system boots up into a console, and I have to login and start X manually. I can't find where this is in the config to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Ed Chadwick. -- Edward K.J. Chadwick PhD. Department of Biomedical Engineering Wickenden Building 404 Case Western Reserve University 10900 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, OH 44106-7207 USA phone: +1 216 368 0400 fax:+1 216 368 4872 mobile: +1 216 235 8239 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
