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this happened before i did the updates today it works now

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went into mcc from terminal, then boot setup, made changes to the order,removed old kernels,then clicked finish

it looked like it changed things, upon exiting mcc i see this

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The program 'drakboot' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow'.
  (Details: serial 64782 error_code 3 request_code 153 minor_code 3)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost 3.3.0-desktop-2.mga2 #1 SMP Sat Mar 24 22:49:06 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


upon reboot, no changes to boot selection screen were made

but if i go back in and make no changes and click finish then exit mcc i get this

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    GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

 [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
   lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
   completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"...  17 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
 Running "install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+17 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
Done.
grub> quit



normal grub update

[activates his "me too" keyboard hot-key] Me Too!

In the end I just hacked the grub menu.lst file. Promised myself I would get back to this issue, but that was a few days ago. Glad you brought it up.

I have been trying to start atd service from the MCC services list, but it still resolutely tells me it is "stopped" even though it is actually running. Does that work for you?

Richard

jaywalker wrote:
I have been trying to start atd service from the MCC services list, but it still resolutely tells me it is "stopped" even though it is actually running. Does that work for you?

Richard

went it mcc manage services and i dont see that service

Do you have the at package installed, which contains this service?

Confirmation of the bootloader menu fix. It is working. Don't worry about the atd thing. I had to install it so I could use it to record the test match commentary from Sri Lanka (05:15 is very early) but the way things are changing so much there's probably a systemd way to do that sort of thing now

UPDATE:
Logged a bug report on the atd and other service problems: Bug 5122 - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5122