Alexander,
Thanks for the pointer. I followed the instructions and
your added note about text mode boot, but the text-mode boot
isn't working. I removed the "console=graphics" from the -B
string of the kernel$ line, and add the -s at the end.
However, what happens after I hit "b" is that my Toshiba
Satellite laptop gets stuck with its screen flashing
multi-colored pixels.
Kostas
Alexander Gnodtke wrote:
> I ran into the same problem. The following solved my problem. I am not
> sure though this is the only or even correct way since I am also new
> to opensolaris:
>
> http://malsserver.blogspot.com/2008/08/roles-can-only-be-assumed-by-authorized.html
>
> In order to make these helpful hints work you have to make sure that
> you are booting into textmode, because otherwise you will see the
> splashscreen and cannot login. This means apart from making the
> changes described to boot into single user mode you will also have to
> adjust your boot parameters to match those of the default text login.
> This means if I remember correctly removing the splash screen info and
> the kernel parameter gui login.
>
> Hope this helps and as I said earlier there probably is a simpler way
> to fix this.
>
> alex
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Kostas Oikonomou <ko at research.att.com>
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am somewhat new to OpenSolaris 2008.11. I used Gnome's
>> System -> Administration -> Users and Groups tool to add
>> myself as "media manager" (or some such, can't recall right
>> now), in order to have write access to the DVD drive of my
>> laptop. (This had to do with getting the DVD writer to be
>> recognized by Virtual Box.)
>>
>> I must have done something wrong, because the result of
>> doing this is that now I cannot "su" any more, e.g. in a
>> terminal. I get the message "Roles can only be assumed by
>> authorized users". This happens whether I use the system's
>> root password, or my own ordinary user's password at the
>> "Password:" prompt.
>>
>> And I cannot use System -> Administration -> Users and
>> Groups to fix the problem, because it asks me for a root
>> password and doesn't accept any password I type.
>>
>> How do I fix this? Thanks very much.
>>
>> Kostas
>>
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