Re: Password problems
On Saturday 16 February 2008 09:51:08 pm Frank McCormick wrote: From the desktop it's being run as gksudo synaptic. In a terminal sudo synaptic accepts the new password. I'll have to wait 15 minutes before trying gksudo synaptic :) Since it would appear to only happen with gksudo, I suppose that you could take the approach of moving (or deleting) your ~/.gnome2 and ~/.gconf* directories and seeing if gksudo starts behaving. Also, check out /etc/sudoers to make sure that you don't have anything strange. In any case, this sounds very serious. A program is gaining root even though you are supplying an incorrect (in this case old) password.
Re: Password problems
I changed my password using passwd...and now some apps want the old password...others want the new one! For example when I do sudo aptitude update in a terminal sudo will only accept the new password...however if I run Synaptic...it will accept only the old password. What's going on here and how can it be fixed ? Is it the case that only GUI apps are using the old password, but everything else works with the new one? I am not familiar with Synaptic -- is it synaptic that is requesting a password, or are you running it via sudo (eg gksudo or something)? If you are running it with gksudo, does sudo synaptic (at the command line) work with the new password? Has your machine been rooted? There was that kernel vulnerability just last week... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sata controller order
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 11:09:50 am Stuart Gall wrote: This is possible for EXT2/EXT3 but it is not possile AFAIKS for swap. Also the reason these systems have multiple sata controllers is that they have a raid partition. So also I am not sure how the md device would handle having its disks moved around. You can label swap partitions like this: mkswap -L label block device Another option is to use swap files. AFAIK software raid stores the information about how a particular partition fits into a whole raid array on the partition itself, so the way in which the devices appear in /dev makes no difference. I am using a software raid array and have the same problem. Labeling the partitions (including the swap partitions) made everything work. MM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KVM problems in sid
Hello, I have just noticed a problem with kvm in Debian Sid. Whenever I try to launch an instance of kvm, be it a disk virtual machine image I have already made or a livecd, a window for kvm appears and just stays blank. If I try to do the same thing with qemu everything works fine. If I try to do the same thing with kvm -no-kvm, everything works fine. I have the virtualization modules loaded (verified with lsmod). I am a member of the kvm group and /dev/kvm has the right permissions. kvm gives me no error messages, it just gives me a blank window. I can interact with the virtual console within kvm while it is not working, and if I load a vm snapshot everything starts working, but if I reboot the virtual machine it just hangs at the blank kvm screen again. Due to this, I suspected a problem with bochsbios, so I downgraded bochsbios, vgabios, openhackware, and qemu to previous working versions. There was no change in the behavior of kvm when I did this. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? MM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XServer taken down by Wine segfaults
On Saturday 19 January 2008 07:41:04 am Александър Л. Димитров wrote: Probably I should mention I'm using the binary nvidia drivers. Did not try it with other drivers yet, but I don't think that should have any impact on it - it fails with _anything_ just running wine is enough to bring that down. I had this same problem last month. Sometimes, when xorg is upgraded, the binary nvidia drivers need to be reinstalled to get opengl rendering to work (wine runs direct draw or something that using opengl). If this is the case, running glxgears will also crash your xserver. The solution is to reinstall the binary nvidia drivers. MM
