Hello dear list,
I installed Mandrake 7.1 (final), and I must say i'm very
impressed by the overall quality of this new flavor of
Mandrake Linux. But i nonetheless faced some problems :
- I choose expert mode, so maybe i sould not complain about
what follows :-) When choosing individual packages, i
removed open_ldap. As i used automatic package dependencies,
i didn't remark that the installer also removed many other
packages, as for example kdebase ! Maybe i'm completely wrong,
but i think that open_ldap is not a prerequisite for kdebase
and the other packages removed (cannot remember which).
- Another package dependency problem : when using MandrakeUpdate,
i could not take the upgrade for xemacs, because of a conflict
with emacs-el. As the conflict was not here during the installation,
why introduce it later ?
- Finally, when upgrading to kernel 2.2.16, i got many problems :
the package reiserfs-utils.2.2.16_3.5.19.rpm looked older to rpm
than the current reiserfs-utils.3.5.19.rpm. I perfectly understand
the error here, but those inconsistencies are nonetheless annoying.
I finally installed the package with --force by hand. But when
i rebooted, my system refused to run again, because of the reiserfs
module not found in /lib/reiserfs (i'm not sure, writing from memory).
As i could not resolve this by hand, i only managed to put back the
kernel 2.2.15 with the cdrom in rescue mode. I must add that all
my partitions use reiserfs, except boot. I also remarked that the
initrd was still the one for 2.2.15. When i removed the line in the
/boot/grub/menu.lst, all the errors concerning reiserfs disappeared,
but the system still refused to boot. As initrd.2.2.15.img is not owned
by any package, i don't know how to get a correct initrd for 2.2.16.
Any idea ?
Pascal Grosse
