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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OK, I think that I've got my network sorted out
(not sure whether it was because of yesterday's etc update or forgetting to make
sure that the routers IP, where correctly - either way, I seem to be able to
access the net).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have also found that when I did the etc-update
yesterday, I must have removed my user account from the wheel group (which
according to the gentoo forum's is one of the things that can happen during
etc-update) - so that's that remedied.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But, which log file hold's any error's or problems
that arise during boot i.e that show the boot dialogue? so I can post the
error's for assistance ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Many thanks for any suggestions you may
have.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John D.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=big-john@dsl.pipex.com href="mailto:big-john@dsl.pipex.com">John</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk
href="mailto:sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk">sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 22, 2004 7:57
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Gentoo problems.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Morning list,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The problems I seem to be having
are:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1.Curious cryptic messages during
bootup</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2.Not being able to access
net/e-mail</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3.Not being able to su from a user
account.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's a bit of a saga, but: yesterday, I was just
finishing a re-install, and did etc-update, which I'm presuming updated the
config files. When I found that I couldn't "SU" I looked at the gentoo forums
and found a couple of solutions - none of which worked. So in panic i.e.
AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH I've killed my install again NOOOOOOOOOO! etc
etc, then proceeded to re-install (including the emerge kde that finished this
morning).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The result of this is the same snags mentioned
above (though I didn't do the etc-update, just in case it screwed things up,
though it didn't matter, things are still screwed up!).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I do ifconfig, it still shows that my
connection is running, but I can't ping my ISP. So I'm presuming that that's
the first thing that needs repairing, so could someone give me some pointers
??</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John D</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>p.s. this is posted from XP, as that's the only
way I've got to post (yes I could probably do it with knoppix, but I don't
know how to get that to work so I can use it to "do some
repairs"??)</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>