On Thu, 10 May 2007, John Logsdon wrote: > Just some comments. I have just upgraded my 4.4 box using anaconda > (yum upgrade just updated the yum update repository then didn't do > anything). > > Some comments: > > 1) To start with I forgot my root password so I tried linux rescue from > the 4.4 CD. > > Except the kernel compiled for that assumes you are running SELinux, which > I do not. So when I chroot'ed to /mnt/sysimage and did a passwd, SEL > reported that I didn't have the appropriate privilege. Quick as a flash, > I vi'd /etc/shadow replacing the garbage between the first to :'s with > nothing so I could su into root without a password at all! So much for > protection. > > By definition, linux rescue will only be used by someone on site so I > don't see why it should assume SEL is enabled. I think it should be > disabled. I realise that the Upstream Vendor is married to SEL but there > are those of us who would rather not use it at all, particularly as we > patch the kernels with alternatives. Would there ever be a possibility of > SL without SEL? Guess I have not thought about it. > > 2) Using anaconda from SL 5.0, the upgrade went OK but the Release Notes > pages always returned a blank screen with some squares at the top. I > guess this is just an inclusion error when the installer is compiled. You mean the releasenotes tab on the lower left? If so it is a error that will be fixed shortly. > > 3) Once the system was rebooted, I couldn't log in via KDE. First an > error was reported about an eggblue file missing (I didn't have a pen to > copy down and the RAC isn't working properly) then when I logged in, a > message was displayed saying that I had been logged in for <10 seconds so > there has probably been a fault. I got into the system on failsafe xterm > and deleted the .kde directory but KDE logins still didn't work. Should I > have deleted anything else? /tmp/ files??? > > I could login using Ice and everything seemed to be OK. I can login to > the box remotely - it is only when I am onsite that I can't login via KDE. > > 4) It would be nice if the many interesting photos displayed had the > place, date and photographer displayed perhaps with some interesting > information. So much nicer than the UV installation screens. But one can > get bored out the skull waiting ...:-))) We are planning on doing that. -Connie Sieh > > Best wishes > > John > > John Logsdon "Try to make things as simple > Quantex Research Ltd, Manchester UK as possible but not simpler" > [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] > +44(0)161 445 4951/G:+44(0)7717758675 www.quantex-research.com >