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 > > > > > > -- > > ��������������������������������������������������� > Mandrake Linux 8.1 Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk > KDE 2.2.1 Sylpheed 0.7.2 > > David L. Steiner > Registered Linux User #262493 > Homepage www.davidlsteiner.com > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ��������������������������������������������������� > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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