Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (44 mails)

[Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas <fantanas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello board.

I've posting a lot of questions recently...

My latest problem has to do with the 'su' command.  After I issue 'su' 
(with or without a user name), the computer pauses for a few seconds 
and, WITHOUT PROMPTING FOR A PASSWORD, it gives me 'su:  incorrect 
password' error message!  This appears to be a wiedespread problem.  
Everything that depends on su (e.g. YAST) fails because of that.

Last night, in a desperate attempt to figure out why my SAMBA was not 
working, I unistalled the SAMBA packages and tried re-istalling them 
from the apt-get repositories.  I got all kinds of errors, like size 
mismatches and bad cpio.  (Are the packagers that careless?  I updated 
all the rpm keys, but just about EVERY SAMBA-related package I tried to 
istall from apt-get gave me errors!)  So, now my SAMBA is broken.  I am 
not sure whether these two problems are related.

I am running SuSE 10 and I have upgraded the kernel to the "SuSEfied" 
2.6.14-3.  Everything worked fine after my kernel upgrade, so I doubt my 
problems are due to the kernel upgrade.  Why would broken SAMBA packages 
affect 'su'?  I think I have two independent problems.

To compound the problem, I managed to roll my chair over my SuSE 10 DVD, 
for which I paid US$50; I did not physically break it, but the streaks 
apparently rendered it useless!  Besides shelling out another US$50 and 
waiting for long downloads, do I have any other options?  I still have 
my SuSE 9.3  DVDs.  I guess when it rains, it pours!

TIA for any help you can offer.

CF