Re: locked out of root privileges(SL5.2)?

2011-01-04 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:28 AM, g wrote: > On 01/04/2011 03:17 PM, Salvador Aguinaga wrote: > > > > chmod: changing permissions of `.bashrc': Read-only file system > > this is telling you than your system is mounting as a > "Read-only file system" and yo

Re: locked out of root privileges(SL5.2)?

2011-01-04 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
typo: I retried the command correctly typed: [r...@vaultaire sluser]# chmod u+w .bashrc chmod: changing permissions of `.bashrc': Read-only file system On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Salvador Aguinaga < salvador.aguin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Frank: > > I went

Re: locked out of root privileges(SL5.2)?

2011-01-04 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
issue! The main problem persists If I go back to my regular account and use: su -c 'vim .bashrc' I get the same error message. Thank you, I really appreciate your help Frank! On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Frank Lanitz wrote: > Am 04.01.2011 15:53, schrieb Salvador Agu

Re: locked out of root privileges(SL5.2)?

2011-01-04 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
Allow me to add: if I use the -m to my 'adduser' it tells me that those users already exist! > Äroot§vaultaire homeÜ# useradd -c "Harp user" -m harpadmin useradd: user harpadmin exists On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Salvador Aguinaga < salvador.aguin...@gmail.com

locked out of root privileges(SL5.2)?

2011-01-04 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
Hello, I a small foot-print SL installation that runs very well, but today I tried to make some changes at the root level and I'm locked out of these privileges. for example: If I change to root, and try to change .bashrc it tells me that I can't change the file. that the file is readonly. if I

sl 5.4: Alsa audio init.d/alsasound restart drops audio driver

2010-07-06 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
Hello, I installed the mini live cd onto an Intel Atom board and installed the latest audio libraries from Alsa because I have an external audio device (PCI) and when I execute: sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound restart ... it drops the audio device and suddenly I have no audio devices, here is what I do

Re: minimal sci-lnx & glibc v. 2.7

2010-06-30 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
un the the app by pointing (correct me if i'm wrong) the glibc (/lib/libc.so.6) to the older version. Thank you. // Salvador On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Jon Peatfield < j.s.peatfi...@damtp.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Salvador Aguinaga wrote: > > Hello, >

minimal sci-lnx & glibc v. 2.7

2010-06-30 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
Hello, I have a app that requires glibc 2.7 and the version installed with SL5.4 is 2.5. Should I download glibc 2.7 and install it from source or are there more complicated dependencies that prevent me from doing this? [slu...@slinux emav]$ ./emav ./emav: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' no

Re: Qt 4 installation and configuration woes

2010-03-06 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
David, Perhaps qmake is being executed from the wrong bin/ place ---verify that qmake is being called from right place: qmake --version and it will show partly where qmake is called from: qmake --version QMake version 2.01a Using Qt version 4.6.0 in /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.6.0/lib this means

mini iso livecd 5.4 on Intel Atom: D945gsEJT BOARD

2009-12-30 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
Hello Fellows, I tried getting a the mini iso live cd 5.0 iso installed on a usb and when I went to boot a mini-itx intel atom board the booting crashed both on normal 'linux' boot and on linux safe mode it get to the point where it tries to load the devices (udev) and I get a crash at this point

SL 5.2 mini_livecd install w/ 2 1.5TB drives unrecognized by fdisk

2009-03-27 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
Dear SciLin-Users, Have any of you come across a system where fdisk does not recognize SATA (1.5TB drives)? The system is a dell Optiplex GX280, BIOS ver A08, I have toggled both SATA configuraitons on the BIOS, but I still have the live CD come, up but completely unable to recognize the hard dri

install of audio devices

2009-01-19 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
Dear Colleagues, I've installed a PCI audio device, installed the firmware, and got audio out of the Headphones port. The Echo Layla 3G, to be used for research purposes, has 8 output (additional) channels and 8 input channels. Do any of you have info on how to select each of those other ports

sci-linux as a pseudo-embedded os, have any of you installed it in this fassion?

2008-12-08 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
Hello! I've wondered if any of you have used scientific linux on a x86 hardware to run a single application ( like an embedded OS ) and disable updates and remove unneeded packages? Or if you there is a better alternative to accomplish the same thing. // Sal Aguinaga // Northwester University /

on "ECLIPSE" is it the recommended thing to do?

2008-08-27 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
I'm new to eclipse, and it looks pretty powerful for C development. I installed on my SciLinux (5.1) the entire group and was wondering if this is the recommended thing to do. This is what I did: sudo yum list eclipse sudo yum install eclipse (and it returned that there is nothing todo) sudo yum

Re: yum groupinstall

2008-08-14 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
On this very issue, I installed a system on a Thinkpad X41 with gnome, but I want to install XFCE, do I follow the same set of steps? I tried "sudo yum groupinstall xfce" and that did not work on SLINUX (on fedora 9, that same command did work). // Salvador On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Ken T

hotplug firmware to properly compile alsa-firware

2008-07-16 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
lug-ng* , etc I run 5.1 on a laptop, do you have any recommendations on this matter? // Salvador Aguinaga

5.1 (boron) xorg issue with 1440x900 thinkpad X41

2008-07-15 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
Hello slUsers: I installed Boron on Thinkpad X41 (not the tablet) and I have a less--than-optimal analog viewsonic display that likes to be driven at 1440x900 resolution. The default system-config-display tool doesn't handle this external LCD correctly. I've edited my xorg.conf, but the screens st

How to install kernel headers? at /usr/src/

2008-07-09 Thread Salvador Aguinaga
s. Any help you can provide will be appreciated. // Salvador Aguinaga // Northwestern University