[Sussex] Re: Gentoo problems.

[John D.]

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).

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.

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 ?

Many thanks for any suggestions you may have.

regards

John D.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John 
  To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk 
  Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 7:57 AM
  Subject: Gentoo problems.


  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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