On Monday 08 April 2002 09:39 pm, you wrote: > I'm butting in here (Sorry Femme!) but I wanted to pass along a mistake I > made at this point once.
S'ok. You give more info than me anyway ;p The file that Femme is referring to covers console > permissions (/etc/security/console.perms under Mandrake but it can vary a > bit) and you have to comment out any lines that have "dri" in them. Note > that I said lines. Plural. There was 2 entries in mine. I only commented > out the first one. You drop out of X, restart, and everything seems to work > fine. Until you actually power-down and restart, then boom! you can't even > logon anymore from your normal user account. You get a one line (hope you > are a speed reader!) warning that disappears. Something about "critical > error" blah blah blah. You can still logon as root though. Fortunately, I > realized that I hadn't made any other changes recently except to that file. > I went back, found the other "dri" entry, commented it out, and all was > well at Hall Estates again. > > Hope this keeps someone else from making the same mistake! ;-) I'm sure it will...and thx. I couldn't quite remember the steps, & yes thats what I had to do. Femme
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