On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 11:35 +0000, Jim Maas wrote: > I can't get past the request for the su password. I suppose this is > something weird to do with this Debian sudo su system? I've even gone > into the directory gnome-system-monitor-2.9.91 and compiled and > installed it as su but garnome will still not go past this step. Any > suggestions? > > Thanks > > Jim > > > [===== NOW BUILDING: gnome-system-monitor-2.9.91 =====] > [fetch] complete for gnome-system-monitor. > [checksum] complete for gnome-system-monitor. > [extract] complete for gnome-system-monitor. > [patch] complete for gnome-system-monitor. > ==> Gnome-system-monitor requires libgnomesu > ==> You need to be root to install libgnomesu > ==> Please provide the root password > Password: > su: Authentication failure > Sorry. > *** If you do not have root access then you need to > *** rm -rf gnome-system-monitor libgnomesu > make[1]: *** [pre-configure] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/home/jamaas/downloads/garnome-2.9.91.1/desktop/gnome-system-monitor' > make: *** [paranoid-install] Error 2
Just comment the pre-configure section in desktop/gnome-system- monitor/Makefile. What version of Debian are you running (stable/testing/unstable)? What happens is you run su from the command line? Does it work? Bob -- Bob Kashani http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/garnome -- garnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list
