[K12OSN] Root Password corrupts?...more details

[Barry R Cisna]

    I wanted to add more details to my previous post on this delima.
    Besides the root password ,corrupting, I also have had a couple other things ,that I beleive are related to using Webmin.
    I 'm thinking one constant is that this has always happened when using Webmin >remotely<( from home.)
    Wondering if going through our NAT box/firewall,,,that Webmin sees both servers as the same "external" IP addrress?
    
    Another thing that has happend is after using Webmin,,a few times,remoteley is,,,that VNC will quite working.
    If I try and even do a manual start of vnc server vnc fails to start. I have never gotten vnc to work/start again,after this.     I've tryed to look at all of the vnc settings/config files and cant see what has changed (or even possible files that         have disappered ,pertaining to vnc). I even done a --force install of the vnc/vnc-server rpm to see if it clears this up,,but no joy:(.
    I can live without the vnc not working,,and the K12LTSP clients still can log in ok. I m just "wondering what causes this.

    2. A few times after using Webmin,also, (and vnc no longer works) I go to the console,and ,alas,, I have several "segmentation faults"...when rebooting the affected server. ( hard drive corruption or just files having been deleted/corrupted somehow)???.Needless,,to say,,at this point the only option is to reformat,as I m dead in the water.
    Webmin is a very handy tool ,,but for now I m guessing I m only going to use it,"internally" inside of the LAN.
    This scenario has happend on all of our four K12LTSP servers over the last few months, so I m sure it isnt a "particular" hardware situation.

    BTW: thanks to all that posted on how to recover the "corrupted" root password,,but I've had no luck getting the root password to work after this scenario.Reformat time(ugh!).

    Possibly someone could post a:
    1. xxxx
    2. xxxx
    3. xxxx
    format to walk a dummy like me,,through the root password recovery process.

    I can do the Rescue Disk recovery from a boot,CD,and get to the command line,,but then a cant get to the "change root password"... command?
    
    Just wondering if anyone has used Webmin,, much,,and experienced the same results?

    Thanks,,

    Barry CIsna 
RR1 Box 213
Gladstone, IL 61437

brcisna at frontiernet.net
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