5.10 preview install disaster

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 02:32:10 +0000 (UTC)
Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> 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.

It always pays to actually *read* the screens the installer presents you with. If you had at least done that you would know that Ubuntu uses sudo.  :)

I suggest you have a look at

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo

You might find some of the links on

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDocumentation  and

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto

Useful as well.

By all means be critical. Please be well-informed in your criticisms.

Peter



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