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I like Mageia, I really do. I liked Mandrake, going way back. I liked Mandriva, too. But my patience is wearing a bit thin. Too many minor niggleing things seem to be happening. We've had the urpme --auto-orphans thing, which I lately posted. We've had the autounmount of DVD drives, also posted, with a bug report. .
I've just done a normal update, which mostly seems to be related to hplip. However, a pop-up indicated that a reboot was required, in this case, which I did. After re-booting, the first thing notable was that ALL the onscreen icons had disappeared. I had a sreenfull of tastefull wallpaper marred only by the waste basket. I sighed and began posting icons back in place from the menu, only to find that when placed, they were immovable. Where they were created, that was where they were going to stay. It was then that I noticed that the desktop control icon, which normally graces the upper right hand corner, had also disappeared. Of course, this could be a result of the auto-orphans fiasco, but I've re-booted several times since that event, for various reasons and nothing happened then. Do I take it that now I have to exercise care in what I update? Or disregard all updates in the way of playing safe?
While I'm at it, annother niggle. Wheneve I re-boot, before long a pop-up appears with the message "plasma requires an additional service for this operation" and quotes 'dataengine-microblog' as the required service, offering to locate it However it is never able to find the thing it requires. What is the operation the additional service is required for and how do I get rid of the dratted thing. A little for information would be appreciated in these pop-ups. Since this appears to be in the repositories, why can it not be found?
I seem to remember, from a long way back, that in order to resolve a KDE desktop problem, there was a file in one of the hidden directories, concerning the desktop initialisation which if deleted was re-added at the next boot, with a clean desktop install.
Is there no end to my woes. Going to trusty Konqueror to try to find the elusive file that resets KDE, I find that KOnqueror has reverted to having only three view modes, as it had after the aut0-orphans episode, Webkit, Khtml and text editor. No File Manager mode. Ah, well, perhaps this will self repair, as it did some two hours after the orphan episode.


Rod Goslin

What's the purpose of this thread in the Basic support subforum. What's your point at all?
Do you want to fix those issues you mentioned, or do you just want to nag a bit about everything?

I am trying, as tactfully as I can, to indicate that things are increasingly not right, and additionally asking how I can fix things which are going haywire, without having to resort to a strip down and a complete re-install. Something which looks increasingly likely. Since my last post, I've found that the printers are no longer being sent print requests. They simply queue up with no sign that they're being sent to the printer. This, too, has only manifested itself since the last update.

My system is rock-solid stable (fully up-to-date Mageia 3 x86_64) and has been ever since I installed Mageia 1 (on two different boxes.) Nothing can be done to rectify your problems unless you provide details of each problem, preferably in bug reports at https://bugs.mageia.org/. It's impossible for QA to test every update on every conceivable hardware and software combination. They do their best with what they have.

FWIW, I've been using the updated hplip packages for over a week without any regressions.

Jim

If you want help about your issues, and as a general hint and golden rule: Please only one problem per thread.

Admonission accepted. I did, however find a solution to my icon-less screenI found that deloeting the .kde4 directory didn't work, since KDE instantly relaced it with another. When you shut down, the defunct settings are copied into the new directory and the problem persist. I simply deleted the old and then pressed the machines reset button to stop the machine without an ordered shutdown. Brutal, but it worked and all is back to normal (sort of), but I now seem to have icon only task manager, which I don't like, so I've added a post to the existing thread on the subject, asking how I can get the old task manager back.