Oh my...  I'm sorry you felt you might offend dear.  You haven't done so
to me anyway.

After all, all feedback is welcome :)

Please do continue to post.  As for you problems, I honest have no idea
but I have seen the root problem before... *wracks my brain for where I
saw it!*

Damn... If i remember I'll post the info/url.

Femme

David wrote:
> 
> <laughing>  Well Miark, if it s that important, I'm in Bainbridge GA.
> 
> I want to apologize to all offended.
> 
> I didn't intend imply that people were too tired or occupied to reply to
> questions.  And I'm really not some kind of asshole.  Although looking
> back ( hindsight - always 20/20 ), my post does seem to indicate so.  I
> just didn't understand why chit-chat received so much more attention than
> ( at least my ) tech-related questions.  Now I have a better
> understanding.
> 
> With that said, on to current problems........
> 
> I recently, against my better judgement and on advice given from someone
> on this list, performed an OS upgrade to fix a boot problem caused by
> altering my partition table.  The problem is now fixed.  I can boot
> without the boot disk now.  BUT, this caused more problems:
> 
> 1- I cannot "su".  error reads:   "su: cannot set groups: Operation not
> permitted"
> 
> 2- I cannot mount or umount as user. ( I could before )
> 
> 3- I cannot run a program as root. error reads:  GET THIS  "Incorrect
> password! Please try again."
> 
> 4- I cannot log in as root on CLI, only in GUI - this makes ABSOLUTLY NO
> sense to me whatsoever
> 
> I have no idea how to fix any of these.  Any help would be most appreciated.
> 
> David
> Bainbridge, GA
> 
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:36:04 -0700
> Miark Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 00:08:25 -0500, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke
> > thusly:
> >
> > > Yes this is a community, and it does have a very _welcome_ feel to it.
> > > But I have a point to make.
> > >
> > > My email a while ago received quite a number of replies.  I have
> > > posted actual problems to this list more than a couple of times and
> > > the total number or responses from them all did not equal the ones
> > > from this evening (read: some were not answered at all).
> >
> > The two phenomenon (receiving no problem responses and receiving
> > many "I'm from" responses) are unrelated. When you don't get responses
> > to questions, it's usually because people either don't see the question,
> > or they don't know the answer. It's not because they typed 50 characters
> > to identify their location then got too tired to type anything else.
> >
> > On the other hand, most people know where they live, so it's only
> > natural that those responses outweigh anything else. Case in point:
> > we've had several "lurkers" speak up to identify themselves.
> >
> > I've had several occasions where I posted problems and received no
> > responses--it happens. But the cause is not other discussions.
> >
> > Now where are you from? Don't make me do an IP lookup--that would take
> > away all the fun!
> >
> > Miark
> >
> >
> 
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