[Mageia-dev] Installation Problems

Sun Feb 10 19:14:33 CET 2013

I did another netinstall on an older Dell desktop
+I experienced some two major problems:
+
+I used a boot ISO (the box doesn't have a DVD drive) That I donwloaded from the mirror.
+
+After the intial download, when the graphic destop shoil;d show, I got a white, plank screen.
+
+I then did a text install and after the reboot, I logged in as normal user (KDE) and got nothing but 
+garbage. After a while I got the login screen again. Got a few loops.
+
+I then used ctrl+alt+F2 and got a command shell. logged in as root and did startx
+After I got the normal X-windows, I used userdrake and added a new user. did  a reboot and then 
+looged in as this new user. This worked well.
+I then deleted everything in my home directory and did a reboot and logged in as myselve (the user 
+that didn't work the first time) and all works well.
+I don't don't which components is causing the first login problem.
+
+This is the second time I have this problem. It wasn't there at B2, but showed about a week ago 
+after a cauldron update but slightly different. The login stopped after the last icon when loggin 
+into KDE.
+
+On another box, (a 4 year old DEll Laptop), a message came up something along the line lnuser temp 
+full. 
+Here the same, I had to delete everything in the user's home directory and then all was fine.
+
+-- 
+Best regards
+Thomas Spuhler
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