5.10 preview install disaster
Luis Murillo
lmurillo at gmx.net
Wed Sep 14 02:41:28 UTC 2005
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Apparently you haven't read the documentation very well :)
Ubuntu has root user disabled by default, which means that when you're
asked for the password use your own normal user password.
As for the installation process I can't help. I still haven't downloaded
and installed the latest dev release.
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2005-09-14, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Once the install finished, I logged in and booted up Gnome.
>>None of the administration/config utilities work. They ask for
>>the root password, "start" for a few seconds, then nothing.
>
>
> Oh, I forgot to mention: It never asked me for a root password
> either, so I had to boot up in single-user mode to set it. Even
> after the root password was set, none of the admin stuff
> worked.
>
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Luis Murillo
lmurillo at gmx.net
Cel: (506) 351-8251
Heredia, Costa Rica
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