Top posting - as it's such a long message that probably should all be quoted :) Have you tried deleting /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp or both if both exist? They are temp files that get left behind if something goes wrong, and won't damage anything else.
Anne On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 3:20 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: > Hi, > > 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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