sysadmin probs; help needed

[Roger Heflin]

Tom Poe wrote:
> 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
> 

How does the disk space look for the root home directory?    I know several of 
the graphical logins don't deal well with no disk space in the home directory or 
in /tmp.

                                 Roger