Mr E, I had the same problem when I edited the console.perm file. The first thing I did was, (and this is experience from old DOS files) was to comment out the line:
# <dri>.=/dev/dri/* /dev/nvidia* When I rebooted, I too could not get X started...I kept getting thrown back to console mode, and even then, I could only log in as root. Apparently, commenting out this line didn't work! I went back to the console.perms file and this time I wrote down the entire line (in case I needed to re-enter it) and then removed the line. Again, I rebooted to get the same problem...no X, log in as root only. (Line 79 error as well) Then I went back to the file again and counted down 79 lines which took me to the bottom of the file (actually only 78 lines now that I removed one line already) and found another line in the "#permission definitions" section that said: <xconsole> 0600 <dri>. 0600 root So, I took it out as well and then rebooted from console. This time I was automatically brought to the login box in X like I originally set it up to do! So either I made a mistake in doing so, or the instructions were not specific enough.....either way, it works now. Now I need to look into this patch problem. Sorry your having so much difficulties, Hope my post helps out in some way. Good Luck, Roger On Sunday 25 November 2001 12:53 pm, I received the following message: > > I disabled the security feature by editing the > /etc/security/console.perms file. > I removed the line that starts with "<dri>" amd tjem > reset the permissions on the NVidia device files by > doing: > > chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* > chown root /dev/nvidia* > > Then rebooted... > > Well, then I couldn't log in as a regular user.. only as > root. So after 5 failed attempts to log in as a user.. > the login locked me out and displayed an error message > about "line 79" in the /etc/security/console.perms file. > > That line 79 was trying to do something with the nvidia > device files (which now were owned by root). > > I logged in as root, and UNDID the changed to the > console.perms file. Only I couldn't remember what were > the original permissions for the nvidia device files > were, so I left them as owned by "root". > > AFter this I was able to log in as a USER, but when I > tried to Shutdown my system.. it locked during shutdown > process.... > -- Registered Linux User 244036 Since August 2001 - LM8.0 Open Source = Freedom
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