Doc - KD4E wrote: > > How to I get into my Progeny-Debian system to cause Grub to > cause Gnome to recognize root so that I can edit what needs to > be edited to try and get my pcmcia nic working again. > > Everything I try seems to create as many new problems as it > is represented as solving! > > Help? Please? > > Thanks! Doc
What exactly is your problem?? Describe it please...EXACTLY. If you cannot even boot to the GDM window, then you have a GRUB problem. If you CAN get to the GDM login screen, but cannot login as "root", then this is a GDM config problem, and has nothing to do with GRUB. This is a quite normal "factory" config. There is extensive documentation on GDM in /usr/doc/gdm that should be helpful in figuring out what you need. This is the [security] section of my gdm.conf file: [security] AllowRoot=true AllowRemoteRoot=false AllowRemoteAutoLogin=false RelaxPermissions=0 RetryDelay=3 UserMaxFile=65536 SessionMaxFile=524388 VerboseAuth=false Make sure the "AllowRoot" option is set to "true". You can ALWAYS login as a normal "user" and then open up a console window and issue a "su -" command. You will be prompted for a password...just enter the root password, and you will be acting as ROOT in that console window. You should be able to edit anything you want from there....if you know how to use the normal text editors like VI, NANO, JOE, etc. I would suggest installing NANO if you have not, as it provides a nice "crib sheet" for editing commands at the bottom. I believe it comes standard on Progeny...dunno for sure. You can ALWAYS issue a <ctrl><alt><F1> and get a new command-line prompt. You can login as root there and use a text editor to make the changes. Actually, you can hit almost any of the funtion keys F1-F8 (I think) and it will give you a command prompt. You can have several (up to 8??) of these sessions all going at once. A <alt><F7> will switch you back to your original X session. Finally, I have noticed that the FIRST time you login to any account it takes what seems like a long time to bring up the first screen. This is because all the directories, config files, etc are being created for that account. If you get to the GDM login screen, try typing in "root" and its password in the appropriate boxes and wait a bit...patience is a virtue here!! In GNOME you will get a warning message that you are trying to run something as "root"...you an ignore it...it is just a warning. Cheers, -Don Spoon- If you type in "root" and the root "password" in the GDM login screen
