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Guys your website is trash, tones of SQL errors etc.

Bytheway your distro just killed my Antergos KDE install. Your installer partitioner is the worst I have see so far.

Still installing it and will give it a try.

Fix your website or you lose interested people as they can't reach youintersted

Hi there, nice attitude for your first post ...

Mind to post some actual examples for the SQL errors ? And apart from that, what advanced support do you actually expect with a post like that?

The forum had a glitch today, but has worked perfectly for years IME.

Now about the installer partitioner, I have found it to be the best of all I have tried and one of Mageia's best features. Actually I have found it to be very versatile in specific use cases where other installers lack the necessary options. If you have found it lacks some option, I wonder what that is.

Maybe you have a grub issue that's common when installing along different distributions?

dirkme wrote:Bytheway your distro just killed my Antergos KDE install.

Ah.... intel-ucode.
Antergos implements intel-ucode by booting intel-ucode.img in its grub like this

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initrd /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-linux.img

right?
Check the grub.cfg entry in Antergos and you should know what I mean.
Most other OS"s (including Mageia) implements intel-ucode by 'incorporating' in its kernel (some OS (like Gentoo) in its modules - no longer done).

So therefore if you use Mageia bootloader to boot Antergos, you'll see only

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initrd /boot/intel-ucode.img

and of course will result in a kernel panic.

Mageia's fault? Hardly. Try other OS's bootloader to boot Antergos? It will also fail.
The way Antergos modify grub is not the way grub should be modified.
It's not following upstream grub.

Too bad Antergos blindly follow (copy) Arch [1] in doing things,,, ah.. use Arch to boot Antergos? it will also fail - what irony!

[1] Arch started this way of implementing intel-ucode and their derivatives blindly copy over this method. And yet Arch cannot boot its derivatives' OS using this modified grub (os-prober).

doktor5000 wrote:Hi there, nice attitude for your first post ...

Mind to post some actual examples for the SQL errors ? And apart from that, what advanced support do you actually expect with a post like that?

How else can you contact Mageia if nothing works. Nice attitude but no thinking.

"if your email doesn't work, please send an eamil to the following address"

petedan10 wrote:The forum had a glitch today, but has worked perfectly for years IME.

Now about the installer partitioner, I have found it to be the best of all I have tried and one of Mageia's best features. Actually I have found it to be very versatile in specific use cases where other installers lack the necessary options. If you have found it lacks some option, I wonder what that is.

Maybe you have a grub issue that's common when installing along different distributions?

It jumped after I selected the right HDD back to my main HDD and I didn't notice until to late.

Then I tried to install it on my main HDD (after Mageia freed it from Antergos ) and it just froze. I never had anything freezing on my PC except Windows 7, but that again is a Micro$oft feature.

I might give it another try but not so soon.

Well.... this post was made right after I lost my hard work and couldn't even reach out to Mageira because of millions of SQL-Errors.

So, we call it a misfortune.

I might have another go... but I was very frustrated and disappointed. Ubuntu, Arch, Antergos and even opensuse just worked fine, and I really wanted to try Mageia to get a European based distro.

Even though I really love arch as there is any software you want, it is available.

dirkme wrote:How else can you contact Mageia if nothing works. Nice attitude but no thinking.

No thinking like simply clicking on the contact tab in the navbar at the top, using any of the mailing lists or IRC channels in the meantime?

Haha... Yep, like no IT has ever had hardware or software errors... Let's see... banks, multinational companies, ebay, paypal etc.. They've all had issues, been hacked or crashed: It's part of the landscape. Sadly, get used to it.

I love the old "It didn't work on MY hardware, therefore you suck!" guys.

Dirkme, we're a community distro, seems you're skilled at finding issues, contribute, we need the help. There's a tab at the top of the page

doktor5000 wrote:

dirkme wrote:How else can you contact Mageia if nothing works. Nice attitude but no thinking.

No thinking like simply clicking on the contact tab in the navbar at the top, using any of the mailing lists or IRC channels in the meantime?

I had a hard time to actually find anything what worked and when i found that this forum worked I just took it before it also breaks apart.

However, I might have overlooked this, just said might

doktor5000 wrote:

dirkme wrote:How else can you contact Mageia if nothing works. Nice attitude but no thinking.

No thinking like simply clicking on the contact tab in the navbar at the top, using any of the mailing lists or IRC channels in the meantime?

For awhile I was unable to access the site at all. I didn't bother to copy the error message because I was sure it was a glitch - bad update or something - and would be fixed soon. The error message was an SQL error, and I wasn't getting any of the page...no contact tab (or any other) was being presented.

Dirkme

imho mageia is the best distribution period. Ive replaced windows with it in countless situations and have loads of people who are not it literate using it as there daily PC.

ive been using it since 2000.

I also work in the redhat/centos/solaris area, and know these professional os's to some extent better than i do mageia, but is still think mageia is better.

but like anything new , until you spend a little time with it, conventions you are used to may not be the same, that does not mean the conventions you are used to are better.

give some quality time to mageia, and you will also find that this is the friendliest community out there, theres no premadona types here who will shut you down, or put you down, although occasionally they will remind your coming across a bit blunt. and I understand your frustration completely, it was an unfortunate timing issue. hence why my signature apologizes in advance.

regards peter

jiml8 wrote:For awhile I was unable to access the site at all. I didn't bother to copy the error message because I was sure it was a glitch - bad update or something - and would be fixed soon. The error message was an SQL error, and I wasn't getting any of the page...no contact tab (or any other) was being presented.

Well, that's bad but may happen, as also our sysadmins are volunteers. I can only mention again what I wrote in the other thread:

If that happens again, usually the best way is to contact our sysadmins directly either via IRC on #mageia-sysadm as listed at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_IRC_Channels or via the mailing list, if you don't mind to subscribe: https://ml.mageia.org/wwsympa-wrapper.f ... in-discuss

Usually when I see that something is not working, I'll forward it to them but I also have a dayjob so can only do this in the evening or on weekends.

Just installed Mageia 5 and my attempt to install PlayOnLinux failed because ther was a missing cap thing.

Guys, this is worst than Windows 3.11

I liked the look and feel, KDE seemed to be snappy, but if I have such a trouble getting some software on the platform, that is just not acceptable, I had that when RedHat came out on a CD in a PC Magazine, but now we have 2016.

If I were you, I would post about PlayOnLinux on Basic Support subforum with an as clear as possible description of the problem and I am sure someone can offer assistance.

This isn't a POL problem it is a problem how Mageia installs programs which just doesn'y work. No worries I am back at Arch and it is just fine, no problems whatsoever.

Mageia installs programs using the package manager which actually works. The occasional and very rare glitch might occur, but generally it's pretty safe and I could say it's even safer than the average package manager. Did you use the package manager and the right repository?

Dirkme

there is absolutely no problem with the mageia package manager.
but if you try and install something on mageia without the package manager, then you are in a world of unknown.

the package manager is in practical use, no different to redhat,

theres an online one, like yum, called urmp(x) with the x being replaced with i for install e for remove, similar to yum install yum remove.

and locally it uses rpm, exactly the same as redhat.

ive installed playonlinux, no problem at all on mageia 5, as have many people on this forum.

every major distribution has a slightly different way of doing things, debian based uses dpkg, redhat based rpm, slackware based pkg,

so armed with that knowledge, it should be very easy to see where the problem is.

by the way, i also often dispense with the pleasantries, and its never helped me either.

regards peter