Re: sysadmin probs; help needed

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Tom Poe wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Tom Poe wrote:
Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 03 May 2008 20:48:26 -0500
Tom Poe <tompoe@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, it's not installed, it was aborted when the install froze. Maybe I could disable wine, since I don't need it, do I? I've never used it, that I know of. Never plan to, either. Is it difficult to remove wine?

Unless you gave the mystery software your root password, I don't see how it
could possibly make any changes to your system configuration.

Unless you specify otherwise, everything user-installed through wine should be located in a directory called .wine (notice the dot) in your home directory.

"yum remove wine" will remove wine completely from your system, but you'll
still have to delete the ~/.wine directory.
OK. When I bring up terminal, I can su to root. The only damage I see, is the authentication for network/etho0 card now uses tom/password, instead of root/password, and if I logout of tom, and try to login as root, the system hangs, until I ctl/alt/bkspce and get back to login screen.

I'll hope it's just a cosmetic snafu. Thanks, guys,
Tom

I have only sporadically been following this thread, so I may have missed it. If you change to a cli (Ctrl-Alt-F1) login, can you log in as root?

Are you using Network Manager to manage the Network connection? If so, how long have you waited when the system locks up? Is it possible that it is trying to bring up a network connection, and failing? You could have to wait for the network connection to time out...

Is it possible that you have roots desktop set to start some programs on startup, and one of them is hanging?

When you were trying to install the program, were you logged in as root, or running as root? (Were you asked for root's password?)

Mikkel
Mikkel: I can ctl-alt-f1 and login as root. I haven't used network manager (don't know where it is). When it locks up while trying to enter GUI for root from the sessions login screen, I waited about 30 to 45 seconds. When I clicked on the .exe file, I was logged in as user, and no request for root password came up. I now can authenticate to edit network card dialog with user/password, whereas before, it always required authenticating with root/password. What seems to be affected, is the GUI authentication aspects such as login to root from the session login screen, and as I mentioned, authenticating for the administration task of editing nic card settings.
Tom


How does the disk space look for the root home directory? I know several of the graphical logins don't deal well with no disk space in the home directory or in /tmp.

                                Roger

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