5.10 preview install disaster

[Vram]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 02:32 +0000, 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.
> 
> -- 
> Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow!  ... Um...Um...
>                                   at               
>                                visi.com            
> 
> 


Ubuntu uses sudo..  So that may have tripped you up...

It is a long story.. Which always causes flame wars.. So don't go there
unless you are bored and want a war...   8^)

So to do admin things.

You type sudo <something>
and use YOUR <user> password..

HTH

Vram