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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