On Monday 30 January 2006 05:09, Brian Green wrote:
Finally, late yesterday, having exhausted all other options, I did a "dirty" install of my system (from my distro: floppies/CDs downloaded from SuSE). All's (i.e. 99%+) was working fine - only appear to have lost some codec's. All the 'root/"Session management error:"/"MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1"' were resolved ...
So, just did a Yast System Update, rebooted, and the 'root/"Session management error:"/"MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1"' problems have returned ...
SynCE installation temporary on hold ...
Hi Brian, Sorry to hear this. I /was/ going to help you repair the system... For future reference, when you experience a problem like that, *stop* adding and removing items to/from the system. At the first hint of trouble, you should drop into preservation mode and examine what is needed to reverse your mistake(s.) Think of it this way: It is far easier to peel back the layers of an onion if you do it *before* dicing it up into seasoning! :-) One other piece of advice for this *exact* situation: Before you reinstall again, from scratch (which is needed now,) boot into rescue mode, reiserfsck the filesystem for as many iterations as are needed to ensure it is clean, then mount the partition and manually erase the contents. This may seem hard to believe, at first, but the 'fast format' used during installation *does not* always prevent old data from 'bleeding through' from previously installed systems. When I moved to 10.0 from 9.3, I experienced this exact problem. It is a real "hair-puller" to diagnose. At the time, I 'met' others on this list (as well as on the opensuse list) who experienced the same problems. Installing to a 'dirty' partition can interfere with the installation itself *or not* and can cause unexplained configuration changes and 'creeping' filesystem corruptions to 'magically' appear. The procedure outlined above eliminates this problem. YMMV, of course (standard disclaimer!) Good luck & regards, - Carl