Hello-

I'm running Mandake 10.1. Yesterday I installed mysql 4and about 10 prerequisites (among them, perl) via the GUI Package Manager. Following the install (which appeared to succeed without incident), I closed the window and MCC hung. After killing it, I found that drakconf now seg faults, and that even urpmi is broken. See below.

I've checked the perl paths and added in sym links for URPM.pm and URPM/*, so that's no longer the problem. I've found that if I comment the URPM->bootstrap($VERSION) line in URPM.pm, related to DynaLoader, everything loads but then I get runtime errors later on. I guess this has something to do with the perl upgrade earlier?

As of right now, I can't use urpmi to get drakconf back alive, and rpm gives me a long list of prerequisites if I try to reinstall it that way. Any suggestions?

If this can't be fixed, can I safely reinstall or upgrade Mandrake without losing my important stuff (which are currently on /etc/, /var/ and /home/).

Suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-Jack



[root@james root]# urpmq --help
Can't locate loadable object for module URPM in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/urpm.pm line 17
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/urpm.pm line 17.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/urpm.pm
line 17.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/urpmq line 29.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/urpmq line 29.

[root@james root]#

Don't know if this is helpful, but had a similar perl issue with dansguardian a while back. It was due to downloading and installing packages that were NOT for my specific version. Completely destroyed the OS and had to reinstall. Sounds like you used official packages so that shouldn't be a problem.

Had very brief experience with MDV 10.1 and it was not good so moved on to MDV 10.2 and many problems seem to be resolved.

I believe all necessary config files (if you're using KDE) are in your /home directory and you can just reinstall the OS. Don't choose upgrade. Early during setup, installer should ask if you want to format partition with / and partition /home. If you leave /home UNCHECKED it will only format / thus giving you a new installation, but leaving your personal settings as they were. Remember to backup any important stuff that you moved out of /home and if it's REAL important, you should back it up no matter where it is.
good luck