On Sunday 14 July 2002 3:02 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > I'm a little confused here. Are you root when you're attempting to run > these programs, and are you running them from the desktop shortcut/menu > shortcut, or from the command line? > > When I start Mandrake Control Center from the Icon either from the > desktop or from the menu item I always have to authenticate myself as > root user. anytime I invoke urpmi it's always on the command line in > this manner: > > urpmi <some-file-name> [enter] > > When doing this I am already logged in as root in a console.
I try "Mandrake Control Center" from both the GUI menu and from command line (ie /usr/X11R6/bin/drakconf). In both cases I can get the GUI password prompt but it will not go any further then that until earlier today. Now my only problem is getting urpmi to behave correctly. I get errors saying that some files are missing and that I need to update my database. I do that with the following command: /usr/sbin/urpmi.update -a or /usr/sbin/urpmi.update -cf This still doesn't change the error message even though it would load the files but not show in the directory (most of the sometimes ...very inconsistant but it really depends on the media even though they are all coming from the same directory) /var/cache/urpmi/rpms. I do all urpmi from command line. I am always doing urpmi and drakconf functions always as root. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Altoine B Maximum Time Unlimited Chicago Based and Operated ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I may kid around about drugs, but really, I take them seriously." - Doctor Graper --------------------------- 2.4.18-21mdk Mandrake Linux release 8.3 (Cooker) for i586 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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