>Ok, just so I can get a better idea of what's going on, how did you do the >upgrade? CDs? URPMI? downloading RPMS and manually installing?
I downloaded RPMS after doing <rpm -Uvh ***.rpm> and noting missing dependencies, and kept going till no more dependencies >and did you do an "install" over an existing copy or an "upgrade"? upgrade >were there any errors during the upgrade? yeah, not every thing went in properly, messages on console said files were being written in right places but with different names, like /etc/filename.rpmnew >the nobody user is perfectly normal. It's just a normal user account that >stuff like apache et al uses so that it doesn't have to run as root. phew! >Did you have X set up to start automatically previously? yes >take a look in > > /var/log/XFree86.* no such file >Alternatively, if it is starting X on boot, log in as super-user on a >console, switch to runlevel 3 with "init 3" and run "startx", see what >happens. ahh, error message: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 cannot open shared object library: no such file or directory a search on rpmfile.net found it to be in egcs-c++-1.1.2-58mdk.i586.rpm, presently downloading I can't log in at the console, though can get in if I log in as a user, then login as root via <su> >ok, that's probably a security setting. There's a number of places you can >do that sort of thing. What's in your /etc/securetty file? err, couldn't find this..? maybe not looking hard enough. (this is being done in another OS) >I suspect you changed the mandrake security level when you did the >upgrade. Probably the easiest course of action is to get X running again >and use "drakconf" (which I have just discovered is broken on my system), >which I think has got an interface that lets you select the security level >relatively easily (it's also got a cute little software installer/upgrader >thing which might help you with upgrading stuff and staying up to date) >>maybe I've been hacked when upgrading rpm while downloading? > >mmm.. pretty unlikely. Or rather no more likely than any other day. :) LOL!, I thought it strange as I saw firewall startup when I booted computer in morning, and kicked myself for not testing it. >>may I get a copy of mandrake cds so this mess can be cleaned up? might not need it after all... I can't give this much attention till next week, other stuff to do... thanks Russell
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