sysadmin probs; help needed

[Tom Poe]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Tom Poe wrote:
>> Frank Cox wrote:
>>> On Sat, 03 May 2008 20:48:26 -0500
>>> Tom Poe <tompoe at fngi.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>> Well, it's not installed, it was aborted when the install froze.  
>>>> Maybe I could disable wine, since I don't need it, do I?  I've 
>>>> never used it, that I know of.  Never plan to, either.  Is it 
>>>> difficult to remove wine?
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Unless you gave the mystery software your root password, I don't see 
>>> how it
>>> could possibly make any changes to your system configuration.
>>>
>>> Unless you specify otherwise, everything user-installed through 
>>> wine  should be
>>> located in a directory called .wine (notice the dot) in your home 
>>> directory.
>>>
>>> "yum remove wine" will remove wine completely from your system, but 
>>> you'll
>>> still have to delete the ~/.wine directory.
>> OK.  When I bring up terminal, I can su to root.  The only damage I 
>> see, is the authentication for network/etho0 card now uses 
>> tom/password, instead of root/password, and if I logout of tom, and 
>> try to login as root, the system hangs, until I ctl/alt/bkspce and 
>> get back to login screen.
>>
>> I'll hope it's just a cosmetic snafu. Thanks, guys,
>> Tom
>>
> I have only sporadically been following this thread, so I may have 
> missed it. If you change to a cli (Ctrl-Alt-F1) login, can you log in 
> as root?
>
> Are you using Network Manager to manage the Network connection? If so, 
> how long have you waited when the system locks up? Is it possible that 
> it is trying to bring up a network connection, and failing? You could 
> have to wait for the network connection to time out...
>
> Is it possible that you have roots desktop set to start some programs 
> on startup, and one of them is hanging?
>
> When you were trying to install the program, were you logged in as 
> root, or running as root? (Were you asked for root's password?)
>
> Mikkel
Mikkel:  I can ctl-alt-f1 and login as root.  I haven't used network 
manager (don't know where it is).  When it locks up while trying to 
enter GUI for root from the sessions login screen, I waited about 30 to 
45 seconds.  When I clicked on the .exe file, I was logged in as user, 
and no request for root password came up.  I now can authenticate to 
edit network card dialog with user/password, whereas before, it always 
required authenticating with root/password.  What seems to be affected, 
is the GUI authentication aspects such as login to root from the session 
login screen, and as I mentioned, authenticating for the administration 
task of editing nic card settings.
Tom