Re: [tlug] Linux-101

[Mark Sargent <powderkeg@example.com>]

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon wrote:

> Botond Botyanszki wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 19 May 2005 23:27:17 +0900
>> Mark Sargent <powderkeg@example.com> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> If you are running k3b as non-root, it will have problems with the 
>>> mount...a way to fix it, is, either run it as root, or temporarily
>>> give  write access to all for /dev/hd(number of yr cdrom
>>> block)...example,  chmod 777 /dev/hd1..not too secure, though...
>>>   
>>
>> If the distribution is smart enough, it will use groups. My cdrom device
>> (hdc) is owned by root.cdrom has group rw access and my user belongs to
>> the cdrom group.
>>
>> Just in case there are more people for that disk...
>>
>
> I'll be experimenting more, but in reading over the different posts on 
> this issue yesterday, it occurred to me that since upgrading from SuSE 
> 9.1 to 9.3, I'd only run Root once, and at the time, it looked as 
> though some things were missing.  Being in a rush at the time, I 
> signed off and the next time I signed on was as user.....
>     So, I tried "Switch User", and then "Lock Current & Start New 
> Session", logged in as root (which took about 10 minutes to fully come 
> up), tried the CD-ROM - no problem; tried the floppy - no problem; 
> then I went over to user (Ctrl+Alt+F7 for user, Ctrl+Alt+F8 for root) 
> and they both worked fine as well.  So, I shut down the computer and 
> tried rebooting into user.
>     The result?  CD-ROM works now, but I have to get past the 
> following German first:
>
> Select a CDDB entry:
> Gunkl, Grundsatzliche Betrachtungen, Alt.Rock
> Gunkl, Grundsatzliche Betrachtungen, Cabaret
>
> I have no idea what that is, but the first of the two is highlighted 
> to start with, so I go with that.
>     The floppy still doesn't work from "My Computer", but it's easy 
> enough to access it via Konqueror, so that's not important.
>     So, everything's happy-happy almost?  Not quite.  On the next 
> reboot, the mouse was dead again, so I plugged an extra USB mouse in 
> to have mouse function restored.  On the next reboot, the mouse still 
> was not working.  On the following reboot, it was still not 
> working....  The sporadic on-again, off-again mouse failure issue is 
> quite irritating, but having two mouses on the desk is something I can 
> put up with at least for the short term.  But what's with the sporadic 
> problems?
>     I'm beginning to think that I may need to reformat the hard drive 
> and put in a squeaky-new install of 9.3 - that upgrading must leave so 
> much junk in the system that it doesn't know what to do with itself.  
> It began as 9.0, was non problematically upgraded to 9.1 and now is 
> acting weird after the 9.1-to-9.3 upgrade.  One huge stumbling block 
> is in the way however - how do I back up Mozilla?  I know how to do it 
> on W with Netscape 4.7x, but haven't been isolate just where the InBox 
> files, etc. are with Mozilla.
>
> Lyle
>
>
Hi All,

Lyle, mate, is there a window(not windoze) near by...hehe...

Mark Sargent.