I already was having some problems with the mandrake control center before. When I was trying to do anything with it, it was systematically telling me that "changes made in this module will not be recorded" (or some very similiar message). Yesterday, however, things got nastier.
I wanted to add one user to a group and, as usual, got the "changes in this module etc.." message. I tried saving twice. Then I exited for a while and came back to see if the changes I wanted were in fact recorded or not. And when I tried to enter the "users" module I got the following message:
UserDrake - Error
Cannot lock user lib,
file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist
in the console the following message appeared:
** WARNING ** userdrake: the file password is busy (/etc/ptmp present)
the file /etc/ptmp was present on my system (but was it "busy"?!), but since it was a root.root -rw------ file I did not want to mess with it, much less so removing it.
I decided to try linuxconf to see if its users-management module worked. In the past, linuxconf did load with no problems. This time, however, I got the following message:
Error message from remadmin :Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Error message from remadmin :Xlib: No protocol specified
Error message from remadmin :
Error message from remadmin :
Error message from remadmin :Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
same thing when trying userconf.
linuxconf now can only be loaded through the console outside X (alt-ctrl-F1 for ex).
And finally, I got this warning:
root@localhost andrei]# XmManager _XmAcceleratorHandler: being destroyed, bad news!!!
XmManager _XmAcceleratorHandler: bad news!!!
XmManager _XmAcceleratorHandler: being destroyed, bad news!!!
WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? Has userdrake/mcc destroyed something important on my system? Can I re-install only userdrake/mcc? Should I? What is happening to my linuxconf and why does it not load in X?
And finally - should I consider the entire Mandrake Control Center as unreliable and potentially a source of chaos on my system? I realize that I can always use command-line user management tools (useradd or adduser), but it would be rather frustrating to give up on one of Mandrake's most important tools...
Thanks for any help,
Andrei
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