Here's another one.. This makes 3. Bolan Meek wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > > > A while back you reported: > > > > > 'Enter' results in the password > > > confirmation screen, and, even after carefully retyping the password > > > entered, allegedly, on the previous screen, 'Enter' or 'OK' merely > > > results in a repeat of the password request screen. > > > > Was this possibly happening on a system you installed over top of some > > other linux distribution, or over top of an older version of debian? > > > > I've had similar reports from people who did that, and forgot to format > > their root partition, so were basically installing over top of an > > existing distro, and this broke it. > > This was exactly the case: I was installing Debian 2.2. over Redhat > 6.?. > Still it seems weird that the installation would not overwrite the > files on /target . I don't remember what I did to work around the > problem: maybe I just deleted the legacy /etc/passwd,shadow files...? > > Eventually I found that there was a parity error in the on-board RAM > of the main board, and installed Debian 2.2 on a sparc instead. > > > see shy jo > ^^^^^^^^^^ > Is this an IRC thing, or just a tag-line stub? > > Thank you for following up on this. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-729-5387 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home phone on request) > http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan > RE: xmailtool http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan/xmailtool/index.html > I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. > This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public > License. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
