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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Morning list,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The problems I seem to be having are:</FONT></DIV>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>regards</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John D</FONT></DIV>
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<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></BODY></HTML>