On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, CL wrote:
> Problems during clean install
>
> 1. During setup, would not accept password less than 10 characters. A
> warning instead of a refusal would be nice. Due to 'paranoid' security
> selection?
Yes it's due to your selection. (i asked the same thing) ;)
> 2. Could not adduser. Went directly directly from previous screen/option
> to an error, something like 'unacceptable something in array'. I'll redo
> it and write the error message down next time.
>
> 3. Video setup detected my G400 32meg fine and showed the screen with
> the 'Is this working?' buttons and timer, but would not startx later.
> Tried XFdrak, selected 800 w/16 and 32bits. Got screen with X cursor but
> hung with error "xlib: invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key".
Were you root?
> 4. Using mc, on each exit message is "rm: remove
> '/root/.mc~/tmp/mc-410'?" or some other number.
A) make sure you have a ~/tmp
B) strace -o ~/mc.out mc , and send me the ~/mc.out
> 5. At login, I could not login as root. Because of the adduser problem I
> used single mode, added a user, even changed root password, but still
> had to su root to get root. As user I was very limited in what files I
> could do, much more so than with 6.1. Part of 'paranoid' security level
> from setup?
Yep, no root login in the high security levels
> CL
>
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