[Sussex] Gentoo problems.

[John]

Morning list,

The problems I seem to be having are:

1.Curious cryptic messages during bootup
2.Not being able to access net/e-mail
3.Not being able to su from a user account.

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).

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!).

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 ??

regards

John D

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"??)
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