[Mageia-discuss] Mageia 2 install.

Sun Jun 10 17:17:03 CEST 2012

On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 22:01:25 -0400, Gary Montalbine <gmontalbine at cox.net> wrote:
+
+> Not a happy story. I tried to do an upgrade. I got an error msg that
+> said something was to big or words to that effect. Then for what seemed
+> to be at least 2 min the DVD drive flashed continuously. Then the
+> welcome to mageia appeared and install started. It went to 10 sec and
+> stopped. Tried a reboot. Didn't work. I tried to do the upgrade again.
+
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5248
+
+Probably would have worked, if you waited longer.  It's processing all of the
+rpm triggers from the updated files, and removing the old versions of the
+packages from the system.
+
+On an upgrade of around 2200 packages, on my old i586 system, that delay
+is almost 20 minutes.
+
+> Didn't work. Finally had to do an install. First problem was the
+> thunderbird icon. After installing the program I copied the icon from
+> the list of programs to the desktop. The icon is now hidden behind the
+> trash icon and I  can not move or delete the trash icon to get to the
+> thunderbird icon. I just rt clicked on the desktop and did an icon sort
+> and managed to get thunderbird out. There is now an icon behind trash
+> that I don't use very much. I will now have to reinstall some programs
+> that I used in mageia 1.
+
+I've encountered similar problems in the past.  It seems to be caused by
+mixing regular desktop icons and widgets in kde4.  I move things like the
+trash widget to the lower right, and then lock the widgets.
+
+Regards, Dave Hodgins
+