(SOLVED. THANK YOU!) No sound. Amarok hangs

[Old-Polack]

Okay, so it's just clicking on the folder and deleting.  

BTW, on the new install, the default UID/GID wil be 500, correct?  I won't need to manually name this.

It should be, but it wouldn't hurt to check, to be sure.

Okay, thanks.  The reason why I asked is because when I created markz this last time around, I only saw a place to override the UID.  I couldn't find the GID manual setting.

When setting the normal user up the first time, there is an Advanced button near the bottom of the window. In there is where you set the UID/GID. I may be remembering wrong but I seem to recall the default was there, highlighted in blue, in case you wanted to change it. It may just be two blank dialog boxes, now.

[Georgetoon]

Thanks, O-P. 

Now, it's just a matter of having some free time to do the upgrade.  I feel pretty good going forward with it.  I had contemplated just buying a new drive and installing to that.  But I think I can do the upgrade and get things up and running.  If worse does come to worse, I have files backed up.  I back up all my art, etc all the time.

If Dolphin continues to be temperamental, I'll have to do the upgrade.  I'll have no choice. 

[Old-Polack]

Thanks, O-P. 

Now, it's just a matter of having some free time to do the upgrade.  I feel pretty good going forward with it.  I had contemplated just buying a new drive and installing to that.  But I think I can do the upgrade and get things up and running.  If worse does come to worse, I have files backed up.  I back up all my art, etc all the time.

If Dolphin continues to be temperamental, I'll have to do the upgrade.  I'll have no choice. 

For what it's worth, I really didn't want to install the 2010/KDE4 version of PCLinuxOS either. Being an administrator on the forum I thought it my duty to do the installation, in order to properly be able to offer help, so with much reluctance I installed the MiniMe version, then added the applications I normally use. Originally I had nothing but problems, but as soon as I upgraded to a 2.6.33 kernel all the problems disappeared.

I don't usually get into a lot of eye candy stuff, so I left the default desktop pretty much as installed. I added a thin panel to the top of the screen, and put the task bar on it to make more room on the main panel for my 20 desktops and a Quick Launcher. I haven't even changed the desktop wallpaper. Much to my surprise, I've had very little in the way of problems, and it's been a couple of months since I've logged into any of my KDE3 desktops. KDE4 really has reached the stage of being a very usable desktop, and is very stable in this configuration. I've made some of my own launchers for the desktop, and turned off all auto launchers, as my 40+ partitions make a mess of the desktop with the auto launchers turned on. All in all, at this stage it's hard to tell the difference between my KDE3 and KDE4 desktops, and pretty much all I do can, in fact, be done without issues from KDE4. It's come a long way recently and Texstar's touch has made it quite nice, and pleasant to use. That's a very different personal view from that which I expressed immediately after the initial installation.

You'll do fine with the new installation. I'm very sure of that. If it can make a believer of me... 

[Georgetoon]

Thanks, O-P. 

Now, it's just a matter of having some free time to do the upgrade.  I feel pretty good going forward with it.  I had contemplated just buying a new drive and installing to that.  But I think I can do the upgrade and get things up and running.  If worse does come to worse, I have files backed up.  I back up all my art, etc all the time.

If Dolphin continues to be temperamental, I'll have to do the upgrade.  I'll have no choice. 

For what it's worth, I really didn't want to install the 2010/KDE4 version of PCLinuxOS either. Being an administrator on the forum I thought it my duty to do the installation, in order to properly be able to offer help, so with much reluctance I installed the MiniMe version, then added the applications I normally use. Originally I had nothing but problems, but as soon as I upgraded to a 2.6.33 kernel all the problems disappeared.

I don't usually get into a lot of eye candy stuff, so I left the default desktop pretty much as installed. I added a thin panel to the top of the screen, and put the task bar on it to make more room on the main panel for my 20 desktops and a Quick Launcher. I haven't even changed the desktop wallpaper. Much to my surprise, I've had very little in the way of problems, and it's been a couple of months since I've logged into any of my KDE3 desktops. KDE4 really has reached the stage of being a very usable desktop, and is very stable in this configuration. I've made some of my own launchers for the desktop, and turned off all auto launchers, as my 40+ partitions make a mess of the desktop with the auto launchers turned on. All in all, at this stage it's hard to tell the difference between my KDE3 and KDE4 desktops, and pretty much all I do can, in fact, be done without issues from KDE4. It's come a long way recently and Texstar's touch has made it quite nice, and pleasant to use. That's a very different personal view from that which I expressed immediately after the initial installation.

You'll do fine with the new installation. I'm very sure of that. If it can make a believer of me... 

I remember.  I'm so glad it's getting high marks.

Again, it's a matter of having a block of time to sit down and simply do it.  I absolutely hate having to walk away and do things later, especcially when I've run into a problem. 

I've done installs and reinstalls in the past, but these were done when I didn't have much understanding in the process. I always ended up formatting everything.  I never knew, until now, to partition the HD and make one side / and the other /home.

Last night, I needed to copy a folder containing eight gigs of data.  I used Dolphin. I opened, then split the window.  I navigated to my portable USB drive on one side, and to /home/mark on the other side. I then dragged the folder from the USB drive to /home/mark.  All eight gigs moved without a hitch.  I then copied the file again from /home/mark to one of my SATA backup drives.  Again, no error or shut down on dolphin.

After that was done, I opened Dolphin to navigate around a bit....CRASH!

Go figure. 

[Georgetoon]

Whoa!  Okay, first stupid question even before I get the disk inthetray.

I'm in PCC and I'm editing the users. I'm editing mark. I'm changing the user name from mark to markold.  Am I also editing the location from/home/mark to /home/markold?

[Old-Polack]

Whoa!  Okay, first stupid question even before I get the disk inthetray.

I'm in PCC and I'm editing the users. I'm editing mark. I'm changing the user name from mark to markold.  Am I also editing the location from/home/mark to /home/markold?

Neither. Get out of PCC, don't change the user name. From the liveCD, as root, in a terminal, or in dolphin or konqueror if you prefer the GUI approach, rename the mark directory on the /home partition only.

[Georgetoon]

Whoa!  Okay, first stupid question even before I get the disk inthetray.

I'm in PCC and I'm editing the users. I'm editing mark. I'm changing the user name from mark to markold.  Am I also editing the location from/home/mark to /home/markold?

Neither. Get out of PCC, don't change the user name. From the liveCD, as root, in a terminal, or in dolphin or konqueror if you prefer the GUI approach, rename the mark directory on the /home partition only.

Okay, From the Live CD simply navigate to the directory, select it, do a right click, rename, and name it markold.

[Old-Polack]

Whoa!  Okay, first stupid question even before I get the disk inthetray.

I'm in PCC and I'm editing the users. I'm editing mark. I'm changing the user name from mark to markold.  Am I also editing the location from/home/mark to /home/markold?

Neither. Get out of PCC, don't change the user name. From the liveCD, as root, in a terminal, or in dolphin or konqueror if you prefer the GUI approach, rename the mark directory on the /home partition only.

Okay, From the Live CD simply navigate to the directory, select it, do a right click, rename, and name it markold.

Bingo! 

[Georgetoon]

Bingo! 

Bingo, indeed! Check out the new thread:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,77633.0.html