[olug] Upgrade/password issues on Mandriva

[Eric Lusk]

No such luck as root, either.  The partition for home is the larger one, and is mostly empty (I originally set him up for being able to install/download to his heart's content).
I just talked him through a livecd boot with Mandriva 2009.0 instead of 2009.1; it seems to be working, although we'll see what happens after updates are installed.
I suspect it could be something like a corrupted file from the DVD media 2010 was installed on, although there were no errors reading from it during the install process.

 I ran the Harry Potter books through a spell checker; none of those spells should work.



----- Original Message ----
From: T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Wed, December 16, 2009 9:06:43 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] Upgrade/password issues on Mandriva

Can he log in as root?

If the /home partition is 97% full, you can't log in as a normal user,
because it won't let you write to the partition, but you can still log
in as root. I've seen the /home partition get filled with random temp
files.

-- T. J.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Eric Lusk <wyrmzr72 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've got someone trying to upgrade from Mandriva Spring 2009 to 2010.  Install seems to run fine, but at the login for KDE, it seems to start the process, then kick him back to the login screen.
> I've had him try a fresh install (his \home is on its own partition), but even after what should be a fresh install, the same issue comes up.  Right now I'm thinking maybe his best option is to roll back to 2009.
> Has anyone seen something like this before?  The 2009 seems to be hit or miss with the included NVidia driver (the is the livecd), where it simply stops at a blinking cursor.
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
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>  I ran the Harry Potter books through a spell checker; none of those spells should work.
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