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Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community has been released, Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official is scheduled for April, 2004

[edit] Errata

• Release Notes
• http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrake10

[edit] Proposed Errata

(Please Note: This is not a bug reporting system. Well known gotcha type problems with defined workarounds should be posted here. If you are unsure about whether the item you are posting here is a problem, post it to bugzilla for verification)

• Problem: PowerPack installations when an nvidia video card is present cards do not start X on reboot
  • Solution: Run depmod -a as root after reboot or reinstall the nvidia drivers that match your kernel in the nvidia folder of cd3. Or install latest driver (5336) from nvidia website with the appropriate kernel-source.

• Problem: Totem displays black and white video files with nVidia graphics cards.
  • Solution: Adjust Hue setting in menu Edition->Preferences->Display tab->Color balance. The hue slider should be pushed to the far left.

• Problem: Computer will not boot from CD1
  • Solution: Boot with an alternate kernel on CD2 and re-insert CD1 when prompted by the installer

• Problem: Tap-click does not work on Synaptics touchpad.
  • Solution: Install Synaptics driver from contrib. Follow the instructions in the INSTALL file for configuring the XF86Config-4 file. You may also need to load module evdev in your /etc/modprobe.preload file.

• Problem: MSI-6380 (K7T266 Pro2) motherboard requires acpi=off noapic at boot time or in the append section of /etc/lilo.conf to recognize usb correctly (chipset via)
  • Solution: Put in the command line those options or reboot at least once after updating /etc/lilo.conf and running lilo -v in order to recognize your usb devices (for example, the adsl modems sagem fast 800 or comtrend ct-350 in order to get connected to internet...)

• Problem: eagle-usb driver is on CD 4 of PowerPack edition, hence cannot be installed if only first 3 CDs downloaded for your ADSL USB modem Sagem Fast800/908 / Comtrend ct-350/361 / at-ar 210/215 / US Robotics SureConnect 9000
  • Solution: download the [eagle-usb-1.9.5-4mdk.rpm] *before* installing Mandrake10Community and latest version of drakxtools* / hardrake* so that you can install it before launching DrakConnect

• Problem: ISDN configuration is not available.
  • Solution:' (only a temporary solution) download all pm files from gi/perl-install/network/ and copy them to /usr/lib/libDrakX/network .

• Problem: Drakfloppy doesn't appear in Mandrake Control center
  • Solution: kernel is too big because of acpi (needed for laptop), use /sbin/mkrescue --iso command to create a bootable iso cdrom.

• Problem: Mouse or glidepad doesn't work on some laptops
  • Solution: (only a temporary solution) remove and insert the mouse. Sorry no solution for glidepad.

• Problem: Windows doesn't boot anymore after modifying partitions table - Bug #7959
  • Solutions: (only temporary solutions)

1. Change disk access mode to "LBA" in the BIOS settings and reboot in windows should work
2. use a floppy disk from FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org/) and do a fdisk /mbr and you should be able to boot again

• Problem: Installing all the system on one new reiserfs partition yields unusable (read-only) system. - Bug #9422
  • Solution: Using ext3 for root partition works.

• Problem: Upgrading from a previous version of mandrake that uses an encrypted swap partion fails.
  • Workaround: When you are alerted to the fact that it cannot mount the swap partition, press ctrl-alt-f2 you will be taken to a console. Your partitions will be mounted under /mnt}. Edit /etc/fstab and comment out (with a '#') the line with your swap partition on it. vi /etc/fstab. (If you don't know how to use vi look it up online first.) Save the file. Then press ctrl-alt-f7 and click "ok" the install will go forward. After your system is up and running you can use diskdrake to re-enable your swap partition.

• Problem: Upgrading a previous version of mandrake that uses LVM for the root partition fails with a lilo error.
  • Workaround: This is because the version of lilo on the CD does not understand LVM however the version that it will install does. First make some space on your harddisk that is outside the LVM (250mb should be enough). Do the upgrade as you normally would. When you get to the lilo error press ctrl-alt-backspace. (This will exit the installer, your system will be upgraded but unable to boot.) Then run the installer again this time select installation. Install a new minimal system on a small partition outside the lvm. Set it up to also mount your other partitions. (like on /mnt/root or some other place of your choosing) Boot into your new installation. Run `drakboot` add a new entry called "Upgraded-linux" copy all the settings of "linux" but set "root=/dev/PATH_to_LVM/ROOT" where PATH_to_LVM is your LVM group name and ROOT is the partition NUMBER within the LVM group. (If you don't know what this is do a `df` and copy the device path corresponding with /mnt/root or wherever you mounted the root partion you want to upgrade.) Then reboot, at lilo select "Upgraded Linux" and you should be running on your old system but updated to mandrake 10.0. Then to have normal looking lilo configuration, you can just run drakboot and have it configure things again. The configuration should look normal after you do this. After doing this you should be able to select "linux" and boot into your normal system. You can now safely erase the temporary installation partition you created. All of this is written from memory, so please alert me to any mistakes I have made here.

• Problem: CdBurning fails/locks computer and/or system seems slow when using an IDE cdburner in ide-scsi mode
• Solution: Using a ide CD burner in ide-scsi mode is depreciated in the 2.6 kernel. So go into the mandrake control center, click "boot", then "Boot loader". Then for each option goto modify and remove all the "append" options that look something like: "hdX=ide-scsi". Click OK and finish. Then reboot. When your system comes up you'll need to fix how it is trying to mount your cdrom. So goto the Mandrake control center, click Mount Points, then CD/DVD and it should be able to configure it correctly. Click OK. Then if you want to be able to burn CDs just run `k3bsetup` as root and it should be able to configure things for you.

• Problem: Some motherboards based on VIA chipsets still have USB related problems with 2.6.x kernels, as evidenced by boot-time syslog messages such as:
  usb 1-1: control timeout on ep0in
  and later, when you try to use the USB device:
  usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed (...) ret -110
  • Workaround: The number of affected motherboards is less with each new kernel revision. Meanwhile, you can try some of the following:

1. Add any or all of the following boot kernel parameters to your /etc/lilo.conf: acpi=off noapic nolapic - and execute "lilo" (In particular, this solves problems for a MSI-6380 motherboard based on K7T266 Pro2 chipset)
2. After boot, execute the following commands:
   modprobe -r uhci-hcd
   modprobe uhci-hcd
   (In particular, this works for a Chaintech motherboard based on KT133 chipset)
3. Use our 2.4.x kernel.

• Problem: The Alcatel Speedtouch ADSL usb modem does not work with the 2.6 kernel. This problem appears in all the 10.0 releases so far (up to RC1). If I boot with the 2.4 kernel I can connect to the internet, if I boot with the 2.6 kernel I cannot connect to the internet.

• Problem: Mailman web interface doesn't work because of perms problems on log files - Bug #9319
  • Solution: This is caused by msec changing original perms for more restrictive ones. Pending msec updates should solve the issue. In the meantime, just add such a line in /etc/security/msec/perm.local: =/var/log/mailman/* root.mail 660=

• Problem: smp-kernels have problems with acpi, so that these machines (also such that make use of hyperthreading) won't power off automatically.
  • Workaround: Add boot option "apm=power_off"

• Problem: On the HP Pavilion Ze5500 Series laptops the installer freezes during hardware autodetection because of firewire issues.
  • Workaround: This can be avoided by adding the install boot option "noauto" (see also http://mikeycal.com/HP_ze5500.html)

• Problem: Acer Aspire 1355LM Problems
  • Workaround: See [[AcerAspire1355LMProblems][this page]]

• Problem: the postfix initscript does not update /etc/postfix/virtual.db at postfix startup.

This message appears in the log: "postfix/cleanup[12345]: warning: database /etc/postfix/virtual.db is older than source file /etc/postfix/virtual".

• • Workaround: Replace the parameter "virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual" with "virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual" in the /etc/postfix/main.cf file.

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