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Mine is a multiboot environment with +</I>><i> several distros like Ubuntu Lucid, Fedora 15, Arch, SL 6.1, and a couple +</I>><i> of others installed. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I kept playing with it from time to time (my main systems for now are +</I>><i> Ubuntu Lucid on laptop, and Debian Squeeze on my workstation). I should +</I>><i> say I was quite impressed, especially considering short time Mageia +</I>><i> exists. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Then troubles started. On one of next system updates I had these: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Sorry, the following packages cannot be selected: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - kdebase4-runtime-4.6.5-1.1.mga1.i586 (due to conflicts with soprano- +</I>><i> plugin-virtuoso-2.6.0-0.1.mga1.i586) +</I>><i> - kipi-plugins-expoblending-1.9.0-3.1.mga1.i586 - +</I>><i> task-kde4-4.6.5-0.mga1.noarch +</I>><i> - task-kde4-minimal-4.6.5-0.mga1.noarch (due to conflicts with soprano- +</I>><i> plugin-virtuoso-2.6.0-0.1.mga1.i586) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> google provided with one link only. It was Mageia forum, not exactly my +</I>><i> case but had enough to be considered helpful. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> 'rpm -e --nodeps soprano-plugin-virtuoso' revealled the plugin was not +</I>><i> installed at all. A little weird, update conflicting with a not +</I>><i> installed packages, "never mind" I said. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> After run 'urpmi soprano-plugin-virtuoso' and installing the plugin I +</I>><i> happily get get rid of almost all the above warnings. But still had this +</I>><i> one: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Sorry, the following package cannot be selected: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - kipi-plugins-expoblending-1.9.0-3.1.mga1.i586 +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Well, that was quite a progress. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I run 'urpmi kipi-plugins-expoblending' and on the next update attempt I +</I>><i> did not get any restricting warnings/errors. So far so good. Finally I +</I>><i> could proceed with the update. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It seemed to complete well: no warnings, no errors. Except one little +</I>><i> dirty thing - the system failed to boot after restart. It stuck at GRUB +</I>><i> prompt with no errors displayed, just a word "GRUB". No reaction on any +</I>><i> key, not 'e', not 'c', not 'shift' button, not any others. Not even Ctl- +</I>><i> Alt-Del. The only way to get out of there was pressing Power Off button. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Booting from SystemRescueCD and reinstalling grub helped nothing. Plain +</I>><i> dead system. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> But this was a climax. I get to the Mageia forum, trying to search for a +</I>><i> clue and get this: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> "Sorry but you cannot use search at this time. Please try again in a few +</I>><i> minutes." +</I>><i> +</I>><i> And no, folks, I've not reported any bugs. Sorry, far to many... :-( At +</I>><i> the end I did not try to anything funny here. Just a regular system +</I>><i> update. +</I> +Well, it looks to be solved for now. At least a kind of... What I mean +I've succeeded to boot the system. + +Last time I tried to restore GRUB for 'grub' prompt. And it was in vain. +Just now I did it differently. I booted from SystemRescueCD and tried +'grub-install --no-floppy --recheck /dev/sdaX'. It failed complaining not +finding /boot and/or block device (something like this). + +Then I mounted Mageia's / to /mnt and executed: + +'grub-install -no-floppy --recheck --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdaX' + +This time it was a success and I can boot now. I tried 'urpmi --test -- +auto-update' and get 'nothing to update'. So, I would be curious to see +what happens at the next update. + +However I still consider it "a kind of solved" since the source of the +problem was not revealed. Thus there is still some bug presented. Though +it might be resolved after last update. We'll see. + +Thanks to all replied. + + +</PRE> + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="005438.html">[Mageia-discuss] troubles with update ended with totally dead system. +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="005442.html">[Mageia-discuss] Un subcrib +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#5439">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#5439">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#5439">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#5439">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |