On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 01:06, Bryce Conner wrote:
> I tried reporting this to Bugzilla and ironically it wouldn't let me
> because there is some bug.

Warly has been moving the server to a whole new set of Hardware.... keep
trying... He's definitly improving things.

> 
> I have installed 9.1-rc1 on several boxes now and run into the following
> problems during install:
> 
> 1)  on an ASUS P3V4X  P-3 800MHz   Adaptec SCSI card,  9.1 GB SCSI drive
> 
> on 2 out of 3 installs, both in normal and expert mode, I get the
> following error when it tries to go into "Summary" mode during install:
> 
> An error occurred
> Undefined subroutine &main:: called
> 
> It is possible to boot after this but I had to configure a lot of stuff
> manually.
> 
> Could this be a bad burn?  I don't think so because it installed on a
> different, more modern system twice without any problems.

Check the bugs on Cooker this one sounds familiar...
> 
> 2)  on both systems:
> 
> listing processes shows named to be running 5 times using consecutive
> PIDs.    since I didn't need named anyhow I just did "chkconfig --del
> named" and that went away
> 
> I've lost applications off of the KDE/Gnome menus.  KDE Menu Editor will
> only run using a console command.  The applications are still there and
> will start normally using the console.  I lost galeon, mozilla,
> evolution, and I'm not sure if mandrake control center was ever there or
> not, but it isn't anymore if it was.

Does update-menus help?

> 
> This was on my P4 box with 768MB of ram.
> 
> Also, there is an annoying feature of printerdrake which doesn't let you
> leave the printer name of an LPD server blank.   My print server doesn't
> have a printer name it is just lpd://192.168.x.x/  so I have to config
> CUPS manually.  Not a big deal, but it shouldn't require a printer
> name.  This has been "broken" for a while, because 9.0 does the same
> thing.

Printerdrake probably has more bugs against it than any other item in
the cooker *grin*... they are re-coding like mad right now.  keep trying
the version in cooker.  In fact set your urpmi to get it's updates from
cooker and I think a number of your problems will start to disappear.  

> 
> That's all I can think of right now...  9.1 looks good but still kind of
> raw.  Not too surprising.  I'll be buying the boxed set when it comes
> out, or maybe the Power Pack if I can afford it.

Look into buying just the disks from the Mandrake store.. If you don't
need the book you get more software for your money this way.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bryce
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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