Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
On Thursday 18 December 2003 08:10 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: TS I have gotten rid of some large files in /var/log, /tmp is empty and I TS still have my 5.9G of / used up. Until I can track down where the TS excessively large file(s) is/are, I wanted to 'reallocate' some of my TS /home partition (currently using 14%) to give to / so I can boot into X TS (then KDE). Trey, how about doing this (go to / to get everything, and be root to see everything): du -h | grep [0-9]M this will show you all directories larger than 1 MB (but smaller than 1GB) or you can issue du -h | grep [0-9][0-9]M this will show you all directories larger than 9 MB and du -h | grep [0-9][0-9][0-9] for larger than 99MB etc. if you want only directories between 9MB and 99MB do this du -h | grep [0-9][0-9]M | grep -v [0-9][0-9][0-9]M Maybe this will help you locate where all your drive space is going? -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:19:21AM -0500, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2003 08:10 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: TS I have gotten rid of some large files in /var/log, /tmp is empty and I TS still have my 5.9G of / used up. Until I can track down where the TS excessively large file(s) is/are, I wanted to 'reallocate' some of my TS /home partition (currently using 14%) to give to / so I can boot into X TS (then KDE). Trey, how about doing this (go to / to get everything, and be root to see everything): This won't help you since you can't get into X, but ... A while back I made a checkinstall rpm for dutree, a du visualization tool. It's pretty nifty. Screenshot: http://clevername.homeip.net/mdk/dutree.png Download from http://clevername.homeip.net/mdk/ It's ~ 60K so it doesn't take much space. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
On Friday 19 December 2003 09:28 am, Todd Slater wrote: TS This won't help you since you can't get into X, but ... Er...this was from a shell. X is irrelevant... :-) TS A while back I made a checkinstall rpm for dutree, a du visualization TS tool. It's pretty nifty. Screenshot: TS http://clevername.homeip.net/mdk/dutree.png TS Download from http://clevername.homeip.net/mdk/ TS TS It's ~ 60K so it doesn't take much space. TS TS Todd TS TS Thanks for the link! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:14:06AM -0500, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 19 December 2003 09:28 am, Todd Slater wrote: TS This won't help you since you can't get into X, but ... Er...this was from a shell. X is irrelevant... :-) Right, which is why I prefaced my response with This won't help you since you can't get into X, but ... (see above) :) t Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
On Friday 19 December 2003 11:18 am, Todd Slater wrote: TS On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:14:06AM -0500, Ronald J. Hall wrote: TS On Friday 19 December 2003 09:28 am, Todd Slater wrote: TS TS TS This won't help you since you can't get into X, but ... TS TS Er...this was from a shell. X is irrelevant... :-) TS TS Right, which is why I prefaced my response with TS TS This won't help you since you can't get into X, but ... TS TS (see above) :) TS TS t TS TS Thats funny Todd - I misread what you meant - totally. I thought you were saying since we couldn't get into X, that du wouldn't work. Oh well, tis what I get for reading my mail after working 12 hour nightshifts. grin Later... (after some sleep):-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 11:47:28AM -0500, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 19 December 2003 11:18 am, Todd Slater wrote: TS On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:14:06AM -0500, Ronald J. Hall wrote: TS On Friday 19 December 2003 09:28 am, Todd Slater wrote: TS TS TS This won't help you since you can't get into X, but ... TS TS Er...this was from a shell. X is irrelevant... :-) TS TS Right, which is why I prefaced my response with TS TS This won't help you since you can't get into X, but ... TS TS (see above) :) Thats funny Todd - I misread what you meant - totally. I thought you were saying since we couldn't get into X, that du wouldn't work. Oh well, tis what I get for reading my mail after working 12 hour nightshifts. grin Later... (after some sleep):-) No prob--I figured it was just a misunderstanding--same happens to me. Heck, most folks don't understand anything I say anyway! (I have the unique ability not only to be uncomfortable in social settings but online as well! There a pill for that?) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
On Friday 19 December 2003 03:11 pm, Todd Slater wrote: TS No prob--I figured it was just a misunderstanding--same happens to me. TS Heck, most folks don't understand anything I say anyway! (I have the TS unique ability not only to be uncomfortable in social settings but TS online as well! There a pill for that?) TS TS Todd Just gotta ask, do you feel more comfortable *here* (the Mandrake community) than anywhere else? I do... Sad I know, but true... :-) PS well...except when I'm holding my 22 month old baby girl! :- -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 03:47 am, many eyes noted that Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 19 December 2003 11:18 am, Todd Slater wrote: TS On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:14:06AM -0500, Ronald J. Hall wrote: TS On Friday 19 December 2003 09:28 am, Todd Slater wrote: TS TS TS This won't help you since you can't get into X, but ... TS TS Er...this was from a shell. X is irrelevant... :-) TS TS Right, which is why I prefaced my response with TS TS This won't help you since you can't get into X, but ... TS TS (see above) :) TS TS t TS TS Thats funny Todd - I misread what you meant - totally. I thought you were saying since we couldn't get into X, that du wouldn't work. Oh well, tis what I get for reading my mail after working 12 hour nightshifts. grin Later... (after some sleep):-) I must also be tired because I read it the same way and couldn't figure out what it meant, thinking this was for the above, This won't help you since you can't get into X, but ... and the following link was so that du could be run and viewed. Charlie -- I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; My business is to create. - William Blake This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:19:59 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start backup yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something tothe effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anythingnew. Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding),but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that Istill have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GBdrive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple ofgigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message aboutroot (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failedattempts to start X. Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why thishappened. Thanks. If those iso images were on a different partition that could explain why deleting them did not help. There could be a few things using up your / partition. You may have some core dumps. Look in /root, / , or /home for any file beginning with 'core' They may be safely deleted. It could also be your logs have reached a vast size. Look in /var/log for huge log files. To stop your log files becoming huge install the anacron package. It will make the 'logrotate' job run daily to compress and delete old logs. It's worth checking /tmp as well. Running tmpwatch (as root) will clean up files in /tmp that are older than a time you specify e.g. tmpwatch -vs 5 /tmp will clean up any files older than five hours which aren't currently open and print a list of deleted files. Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin For future ref try kdirstat. I run it now and then to get an idea how the file system is shaping up. I just ran it and noticed that OpenOffice is a little piggy. Lee I have gotten rid of some large files in /var/log, /tmp is empty and I still have my 5.9G of / used up. Until I can track down where the excessively large file(s) is/are, I wanted to 'reallocate' some of my /home partition (currently using 14%) to give to / so I can boot into X (then KDE). I understand from some research that parted can be used for this, but was unsure of the command(s) to essentially give 2G to the / partition. Would anyone be able to help? Thanks a lot. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/) - FIXED
Trey Sizemore wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:19:59 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start backup yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something tothe effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anythingnew. Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding),but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that Istill have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GBdrive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple ofgigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message aboutroot (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failedattempts to start X. Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why thishappened. Thanks. If those iso images were on a different partition that could explain why deleting them did not help. There could be a few things using up your / partition. You may have some core dumps. Look in /root, / , or /home for any file beginning with 'core' They may be safely deleted. It could also be your logs have reached a vast size. Look in /var/log for huge log files. To stop your log files becoming huge install the anacron package. It will make the 'logrotate' job run daily to compress and delete old logs. It's worth checking /tmp as well. Running tmpwatch (as root) will clean up files in /tmp that are older than a time you specify e.g. tmpwatch -vs 5 /tmp will clean up any files older than five hours which aren't currently open and print a list of deleted files. Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin For future ref try kdirstat. I run it now and then to get an idea how the file system is shaping up. I just ran it and noticed that OpenOffice is a little piggy. Lee I have gotten rid of some large files in /var/log, /tmp is empty and I still have my 5.9G of / used up. Until I can track down where the excessively large file(s) is/are, I wanted to 'reallocate' some of my /home partition (currently using 14%) to give to / so I can boot into X (then KDE). I understand from some research that parted can be used for this, but was unsure of the command(s) to essentially give 2G to the / partition. Would anyone be able to help? Thanks a lot. After doing a 'find / -mount -size +50k -print' I found a /backup directory that contained the Mandrake 9.2 3-disk set. I moved them to my home partition and now all seems well. With the freely allocated space available, I am now able to start the X server. Thanks to everyone for their helpful suggestions! Yippee! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start back up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something to the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anything new. Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding), but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that I still have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GB drive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple of gigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message about root (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failed attempts to start X. Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why this happened. Thanks. If those iso images were on a different partition that could explain why deleting them did not help. There could be a few things using up your / partition. You may have some core dumps. Look in /root, / , or /home for any file beginning with 'core' They may be safely deleted. It could also be your logs have reached a vast size. Look in /var/log for huge log files. To stop your log files becoming huge install the anacron package. It will make the 'logrotate' job run daily to compress and delete old logs. It's worth checking /tmp as well. Running tmpwatch (as root) will clean up files in /tmp that are older than a time you specify e.g. tmpwatch -vs 5 /tmp will clean up any files older than five hours which aren't currently open and print a list of deleted files. Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:19:59 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start backup yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something tothe effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anythingnew. Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding),but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that Istill have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GBdrive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple ofgigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message aboutroot (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failedattempts to start X. Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why thishappened. Thanks. If those iso images were on a different partition that could explain why deleting them did not help. There could be a few things using up your / partition. You may have some core dumps. Look in /root, / , or /home for any file beginning with 'core' They may be safely deleted. It could also be your logs have reached a vast size. Look in /var/log for huge log files. To stop your log files becoming huge install the anacron package. It will make the 'logrotate' job run daily to compress and delete old logs. It's worth checking /tmp as well. Running tmpwatch (as root) will clean up files in /tmp that are older than a time you specify e.g. tmpwatch -vs 5 /tmp will clean up any files older than five hours which aren't currently open and print a list of deleted files. Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin For future ref try kdirstat. I run it now and then to get an idea how the file system is shaping up. I just ran it and noticed that OpenOffice is a little piggy. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start back up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something to the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anything new. Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding), but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that I still have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GB drive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple of gigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message about root (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failed attempts to start X. Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why this happened. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start back up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something to the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anything new. Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding), but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that I still have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GB drive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple of gigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message about root (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failed attempts to start X. Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why this happened. Thanks. If those iso images were on a different partition that could explain why deleting them did not help. There could be a few things using up your / partition. You may have some core dumps. Look in /root, / , or /home for any file beginning with 'core' They may be safely deleted. It could also be your logs have reached a vast size. Look in /var/log for huge log files. To stop your log files becoming huge install the anacron package. It will make the 'logrotate' job run daily to compress and delete old logs. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
you can check the free space of youre partitions with the df conmmand so you can have an idea if there is a space problem Cdrack. --- Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start back up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something to the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anything new. Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding), but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that I still have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GB drive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple of gigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message about root (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failed attempts to start X. Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why this happened. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start back up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something to the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anything new. Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding), but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that I still have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GB drive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple of gigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message about root (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failed attempts to start X. Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why this happened. Thanks. If those iso images were on a different partition that could explain why deleting them did not help. There could be a few things using up your / partition. You may have some core dumps. Look in /root, / , or /home for any file beginning with 'core' They may be safely deleted. It could also be your logs have reached a vast size. Look in /var/log for huge log files. To stop your log files becoming huge install the anacron package. It will make the 'logrotate' job run daily to compress and delete old logs. derek It says that root (/) is full, and the iso images were in /home/trey so doesn't that count against root or am I having a conceptual error here. When I get back I'll try to isolate where the space hogs are using df and du again. I think it was the du command that showed file sizes but if there was a directory I would no see the sizes of files within the directory. It may be log files and I'll check into that as well. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
Trey Sizemore wrote: SNIP It says that root (/) is full, and the iso images were in /home/trey so doesn't that count against root or am I having a conceptual error here. When I get back I'll try to isolate where the space hogs are using df and du again. I think it was the du command that showed file sizes but if there was a directory I would no see the sizes of files within the directory. It may be log files and I'll check into that as well. Thanks. It would if you had only 1 linux partition. But most people (and the default Mandrake install) use more than 1 HD partition. /home usually gets a partition to itself. That makes life easier when you come to upgrade your Linux. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
SNIP It says that root (/) is full, and the iso images were in /home/trey so doesn't that count against root or am I having a conceptual error here. When I get back I'll try to isolate where the space hogs are using df and du again. I think it was the du command that showed file sizes but if there was a directory I would no see the sizes of files within the directory. It may be log files and I'll check into that as well. Thanks. I should have added on my last post :- If you install fsv (from contrib) it will show your file system as a 3 dimensional map. It is easy to see where disc space is being used up. Of course it will not help you just at the moment because you do not have enough space to install fsv in ;-) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 08:35 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start back up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something to the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] Derek wrote: It could also be your logs have reached a vast size. Look in /var/log for huge log files. To stop your log files becoming huge install the anacron package. It will make the 'logrotate' job run daily to compress and delete old logs. derek This is how I solved my log problem back in the old days, with a really small HD. As root, I edited my /etc/logrotate.conf I changed anything monthly to weekly I changed anything weekly to daily If it says rotate 4 I changed it to rotate 1 Who needs all that log info anyway--you ain't administering a server, are you? e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login as root in CLI
The file /usr/share/doc/msec-0.38/security.txt describes the security features for each level. Levels 4 and 5 disable direct root login. Disabling direct root login means that somebody has to guess two passwords to enter as root. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:30:44PM -0400, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:32 pm, Adolfo A. Bello B. wrote: I just installed 9.1 with security set to Higher. When booting to runlevel 3 I can not login as root, always receiving a login incorrect message. However, I can login as a regular/normal user and then su to root without problem. The same happens when booting to runlevel 5. I can login as a normal user and from there su to root. But, If I hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and try to login as root I get the login incorrect message. I have no idea about what is going on. Needing help to sort this out. Saludos, Adolfo I think we've seen this before in the message threads - its entirely due to your security setting AFAIK. In other words, its supposed to do that at higher settings. Thank you Ronald. I didn't know it was a security feature. Saludos, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login as root in CLI
On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:32 pm, Adolfo A. Bello B. wrote: I just installed 9.1 with security set to Higher. When booting to runlevel 3 I can not login as root, always receiving a login incorrect message. However, I can login as a regular/normal user and then su to root without problem. The same happens when booting to runlevel 5. I can login as a normal user and from there su to root. But, If I hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and try to login as root I get the login incorrect message. I have no idea about what is going on. Needing help to sort this out. Saludos, Adolfo I think we've seen this before in the message threads - its entirely due to your security setting AFAIK. In other words, its supposed to do that at higher settings. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login as root in CLI
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:30:44PM -0400, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:32 pm, Adolfo A. Bello B. wrote: I just installed 9.1 with security set to Higher. When booting to runlevel 3 I can not login as root, always receiving a login incorrect message. However, I can login as a regular/normal user and then su to root without problem. The same happens when booting to runlevel 5. I can login as a normal user and from there su to root. But, If I hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and try to login as root I get the login incorrect message. I have no idea about what is going on. Needing help to sort this out. Saludos, Adolfo I think we've seen this before in the message threads - its entirely due to your security setting AFAIK. In other words, its supposed to do that at higher settings. Thank you Ronald. I didn't know it was a security feature. Saludos, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't login as root
or even http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php: Direct root Login is disabled for Level 4 and 5 raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 12:27, et wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 06:21 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:46:13 -0700 Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I rarely ask questions for others but this one has me stumped. My colleague running LM8.2 has a default (for his hardware) configuration. He created one user. Then, he went to the security configuration utility and set it to high. Now he can't get in the gui login as root. His user account still works and he can 'su' in a terminal. This behaviour seems to have started just after he changed the security setting to high. My research found a possible solution in the /etc/security/access.conf with a missing entry like... -:ALL EXCEPT list of accounts:LOCAL Am I on the right track here? Has anyone come across this one before? Newbie archives don't return anything on this. tia, Bill W. My bet is that this is an msec thing. Try another security level. Bill aboSOluuutly msec,,, man msec (with out the quotes, in a text console) can be your friend... There's also the Reference Manual section 12 which is all about msec. Hardcopy for anyone with a box set, online for everyone else. Look for the documents page at MandrakeSoft. MSec can be customised. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't login as root
On 8/06/2002, The following message was beamed across the Internet: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:46:13 -0700 Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I rarely ask questions for others but this one has me stumped. My colleague running LM8.2 has a default (for his hardware) configuration. He created one user. Then, he went to the security configuration utility and set it to high. Now he can't get in the gui login as root. His user account still works and he can 'su' in a terminal. This behaviour seems to have started just after he changed the security setting to high. My research found a possible solution in the /etc/security/access.conf with a missing entry like... -:ALL EXCEPT list of accounts:LOCAL Am I on the right track here? Has anyone come across this one before? Newbie archives don't return anything on this. tia, Bill W. I too had this problem, whether in command line or GUI login. I set security to higher and did not try any other settings as I wanted to run mail server... -- Regards, Mark Van Bruggen [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is always a way, it's just reality that's the problem !! == Mark Van Bruggen Microsoft OEM Certified Phone : 07 4926 4900 Computer Systems Supplier Mobile: 04 3886 4900 Internet / Computer Technician E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockhampton QLD AU == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] can't login as root
Hi, I rarely ask questions for others but this one has me stumped. My colleague running LM8.2 has a default (for his hardware) configuration. He created one user. Then, he went to the security configuration utility and set it to "high". Now he can't get in the gui login as root. His user account still works and he can 'su' in a terminal. This behaviour seems to have started just after he changed the security setting to high. My research found a possible solution in the /etc/security/access.conf with a missing entry like... -:ALL EXCEPT list of accounts:LOCAL Am I on the right track here? Has anyone come across this one before? Newbie archives don't return anything on this. tia, Bill W.
Re: [newbie] can't login as root
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:46:13 -0700 Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I rarely ask questions for others but this one has me stumped. My colleague running LM8.2 has a default (for his hardware) configuration. He created one user. Then, he went to the security configuration utility and set it to high. Now he can't get in the gui login as root. His user account still works and he can 'su' in a terminal. This behaviour seems to have started just after he changed the security setting to high. My research found a possible solution in the /etc/security/access.conf with a missing entry like... -:ALL EXCEPT list of accounts:LOCAL Am I on the right track here? Has anyone come across this one before? Newbie archives don't return anything on this. tia, Bill W. My bet is that this is an msec thing. Try another security level. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't login as root
Well if you set 'High Security' you should not be surprised if the security is 'high'. Logging in as root is dangerous... therefore it is not permitted. If you do not like it, then reduce the security level to something more lax or tune the security options as decribed here http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php derek On Friday 07 June 2002 11:21 pm, Bill Davidson wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:46:13 -0700 Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I rarely ask questions for others but this one has me stumped. My colleague running LM8.2 has a default (for his hardware) configuration. He created one user. Then, he went to the security configuration utility and set it to high. Now he can't get in the gui login as root. His user account still works and he can 'su' in a terminal. This behaviour seems to have started just after he changed the security setting to high. My research found a possible solution in the /etc/security/access.conf with a missing entry like... -:ALL EXCEPT list of accounts:LOCAL Am I on the right track here? Has anyone come across this one before? Newbie archives don't return anything on this. tia, Bill W. My bet is that this is an msec thing. Try another security level. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't login as root
On Friday 07 June 2002 06:21 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:46:13 -0700 Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I rarely ask questions for others but this one has me stumped. My colleague running LM8.2 has a default (for his hardware) configuration. He created one user. Then, he went to the security configuration utility and set it to high. Now he can't get in the gui login as root. His user account still works and he can 'su' in a terminal. This behaviour seems to have started just after he changed the security setting to high. My research found a possible solution in the /etc/security/access.conf with a missing entry like... -:ALL EXCEPT list of accounts:LOCAL Am I on the right track here? Has anyone come across this one before? Newbie archives don't return anything on this. tia, Bill W. My bet is that this is an msec thing. Try another security level. Bill aboSOluuutly msec,,, man msec (with out the quotes, in a text console) can be your friend... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't login the SNF
Hi, I installed the single Network Firewall on my network but I can't login from my other computer. I can ping the other computer from the firewall though. I have entered the https://192.168.0.1:8443 in a browser but then I can't login and get only a time out error. Does someone know what the problem is? Thanks, Wayne Bornall _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login the SNF
I've got it fixed now. I forgot the / at the end of the adress. From: Wayne Bornall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can't login the SNF Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 15:23:06 + Hi, I installed the single Network Firewall on my network but I can't login from my other computer. I can ping the other computer from the firewall though. I have entered the https://192.168.0.1:8443 in a browser but then I can't login and get only a time out error. Does someone know what the problem is? Thanks, Wayne Bornall _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to SunOS from Mandrake via telnet
On Friday 15 March 2002 01:23, you wrote: Have you applied the security patches to your installation - I had this and and after I had these applied all was ok, Sorry that I can't tell you which as I did the upgrade all at once. Thanks for your reply, but I am still not able to get this working. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Kevin - Original Message - From: Gerald Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't login to SunOS from Mandrake via telnet On Tuesday 12 March 2002 08:36 pm, you wrote: Hello all, I have Mandrake 8.1 on my laptop and am trying to telnet to a SunOS box. I have tried all the terminals and am having the following problem: I type: telnet IP of server here and press Enter I get: SunOS 5.6 login: After the login I type my username and press Enter, but the cursor just moves to the l of login (on the same line) and does nothing. I never get a prompt for a password and eventually the connection times out. I have been able to login just fine from Windows, but need access to this server from within Mandrake. (it is a dual boot system) Any suggestions are appreciated, Kevin Set your xterm Settings - Keyboard to Linux Console HTH -- Gerald Waugh Connecticut USA --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Stephen Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to SunOS from Mandrake via telnet
Thanks for your reply, but I am still not able to get this working. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Kevin - Original Message - From: Gerald Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't login to SunOS from Mandrake via telnet On Tuesday 12 March 2002 08:36 pm, you wrote: Hello all, I have Mandrake 8.1 on my laptop and am trying to telnet to a SunOS box. I have tried all the terminals and am having the following problem: I type: telnet IP of server here and press Enter I get: SunOS 5.6 login: After the login I type my username and press Enter, but the cursor just moves to the l of login (on the same line) and does nothing. I never get a prompt for a password and eventually the connection times out. I have been able to login just fine from Windows, but need access to this server from within Mandrake. (it is a dual boot system) Any suggestions are appreciated, Kevin Set your xterm Settings - Keyboard to Linux Console HTH -- Gerald Waugh Connecticut USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to SunOS from Mandrake via telnet
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 08:36 pm, you wrote: Hello all, I have Mandrake 8.1 on my laptop and am trying to telnet to a SunOS box. I have tried all the terminals and am having the following problem: I type: telnet IP of server here and press Enter I get: SunOS 5.6 login: After the login I type my username and press Enter, but the cursor just moves to the l of login (on the same line) and does nothing. I never get a prompt for a password and eventually the connection times out. I have been able to login just fine from Windows, but need access to this server from within Mandrake. (it is a dual boot system) Any suggestions are appreciated, Kevin Set your xterm Settings - Keyboard to Linux Console HTH -- Gerald Waugh Connecticut USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't login to SunOS from Mandrake via telnet
Hello all, I have Mandrake 8.1 on my laptop and am trying to telnet to a SunOS box. I have tried all the terminals and am having the following problem: I type: telnet IP of server here and press Enter I get: SunOS 5.6 login: After the login I type my username and press Enter, but the cursor just moves to the l of login (on the same line) and does nothing. I never get a prompt for a password and eventually the connection times out. I have been able to login just fine from Windows, but need access to this server from within Mandrake. (it is a dual boot system) Any suggestions are appreciated, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't login
Bill, If you choose expert and upgrade during the install, then no - your data will remain untouched. Try this first choosing no packages for installation. Chances are it will fix it magically! No warranty implied though ;-) Brian On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 15:07, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, Not much action on this problem...I am considering a re-upgrade, choosing only the KDE workstation option. Will this refresh only KDE or will it wipe all other user installed software in the /home/user directory? Thanks, Bill W. - Original Message - From: Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 9:00 PM Subject: [newbie] can't login Hi, I did a ctrl - alt - backspace to get out of a running session. Now when I try to get back in to my user account I get the following crash notifications. nspluginscan ksplash ksmserver After the third crash notification, I get kicked back out to the login screen. KDE will not start. If I login as root, no problem. Thoughts on what my rash action has caused? tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] can't login
Hi, I did a ctrl - alt - backspace to get out of a running session. Now when I try to get back in to my user account I get the following crash notifications. nspluginscan ksplash ksmserver After the third crash notification, I get kicked back out to the login screen. KDE will not start. If I login as root, no problem. Thoughts on what my rash action has caused? tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't login as root
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, Randall Randall wrote: Okay, got another issue, now. :) I'm trying to install a system without X, and have to go through and delete packages manually, in "expert" mode. It claims to be installing all the dependencies (including things I don't really want (like X libraries) but apparently MUST have. Every time I give it a root password, and finish the installation, I can't login. No matter how carefully I type, it says: Login Incorrect. Here's the weird part: I can login fine as another user, and use "su" to login as root, and it WORKS. I just can't login initially as root. IIRC, that is a security feature, that you cannot login directly as root. -- Ronald
[newbie] can't login as root
Okay, got another issue, now. :) I'm trying to install a system without X, and have to go through and delete packages manually, in "expert" mode. It claims to be installing all the dependencies (including things I don't really want (like X libraries) but apparently MUST have. Every time I give it a root password, and finish the installation, I can't login. No matter how carefully I type, it says: Login Incorrect. Here's the weird part: I can login fine as another user, and use "su" to login as root, and it WORKS. I just can't login initially as root. -- Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
Re: [newbie] can't login as root
Check to see if there is nothing special in your /root/.bashrc or other scripts executed when you log in. Maybe there is something that disconnects you in these scripts. Randall Randall wrote : Okay, got another issue, now. :) I'm trying to install a system without X, and have to go through and delete packages manually, in "expert" mode. It claims to be installing all the dependencies (including things I don't really want (like X libraries) but apparently MUST have. Every time I give it a root password, and finish the installation, I can't login. No matter how carefully I type, it says: Login Incorrect. Here's the weird part: I can login fine as another user, and use "su" to login as root, and it WORKS. I just can't login initially as root. -- Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
Re: [newbie] can't login as root
flupke wrote: Check to see if there is nothing special in your /root/.bashrc or other scripts executed when you log in. Maybe there is something that disconnects you in these scripts. Well, I know what it looks like to login to a disabled account, and THAT should just drop you back to a logon prompt, but this actually says: login incorrect. Also, I can use "su -", which reads all those configuration files, IIUC. Anyway, just in case, I did look, and couldn't see anything amiss in the configuration files. -- Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
Re: [newbie] Can't login
On Fri, 29 Feb 2036, Wayne Wallace wrote: I can't login to an account I have been using. I was surfing along and started to experience strange problems I figured i would logout and come back in. I can't get back in as that user it goes right back the the login screen. I can use root. Any suggestions? reset the password for that user as root. From console, you can do it as follows: passwd username It'll prompt you for a new password and then you can re-enter it. That MAY fix it for you. John
[newbie] Can't login after updating PAM
I tried to upgrade to October Gnome but needed to update PAM also. I installed pam-o.68-8.i386.rpm but now I get an error "su: module not found" and can't login. How to fix? I originally had Mandrake 6 on the box, but upgraded most stuff as it came out. -Brent
