Mandrake Control Center Freezes

apimente.br · 08-27-2003, 08:23 PM

I installed Mdk 9.1 and everything works fine, then I made almost all updates, next time I boot neither Mandrake Control Center nor File Manager - Super User Mode works. When I sellect one of then it ask for root password and after some time it disapear. No error message is given. I can't launch MCC from a Konsole, only if I do Ctrl+Alt+Fn I can.
When I launch the Mandrake Control Center the top command shows a high CPU load.

Thanks in advance.

kundor · 08-27-2003, 10:09 PM

Well, I'd try upgrading again (all the way this time

)

The way to do this with console tools, is to run (as root)
urpmi.update -a
urpmi --auto-select

apimente.br · 08-28-2003, 07:47 PM

Thanks!
I've did all the updates now, but Mandrake Control Center doesn't work.

kundor · 08-28-2003, 08:08 PM

Hmm.

Try uninstalling and reinstalling. Do that (again, as root) by
urpme drakconf
urpmi drakconf

That is an e in urpme the first time. Maybe rebooting between steps wouldn't be a bad idea, but that's probably just a tick from my windows days.

If that doesn't fix it....I don't know, maybe reinstall, it only takes 15 minutes.

quatsch · 08-28-2003, 08:10 PM

I once had a problem like this. I could work around it by first becoming root in konsole and then launching mcc. maybe this works for you too?

apimente.br · 09-05-2003, 08:45 PM

Thanks kundor!

I'll do that if none works.

Thanks quatsch!
I can't launch mcc from the konsole, it doesn't work, only when I open a terminal (by Ctrl+Alt+Fn) I can launch mcc.

For all:
I'm planning to learn a bit about Linux. I think it's a great opportunity to do that, but I need to know where is the problem, could be in any config file?

apimente.br · 09-29-2003, 08:44 PM

I did the following updates:
- Kdebase
- XFree86
- gdm
and both Mandrake Control Center and File Manager - Super User Mode works again. I can't understand. Could someone explain to me what happened?
In time: there is some files called core.xxxx in my /root/ directory. What is these files?

Thanks in advance.

stv_t · 10-03-2003, 12:12 PM

The core files are a dump of a program which crashed. You should be able to find out which program created them by typing "file core*". If your not interested in some serious debugging and the program which created is working after the updates which you carried out then just delete them.