On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 17:53 -0800, Bob Kashani wrote: > 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?
What happens if you run: su -m -c ls Bob -- Bob Kashani http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/garnome -- garnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list
