Re: Problem with xterm/console

Ben Steeves wrote:

Hi,
I'm linux newbie and usually I'm using my root account for everything (I
have FC2 on my private computer and it's only occasionally connected to
internet). I'd really like to start working as a standard user

Good -- as I'm sure you're aware, running as root is a very, very bad
habit.  Use "su -" (note the dash at the end) to switch to the root
account only when you need to, then switch back as soon as possible.

Aware of that ... that's why I tried couple of time to change it and do exactly like you wrote above - use root only when it's needed.

but I
have always the same problem (it was also on FC1). The problem is that
at the beginning everything with console (xterm or standard gnome
console) works perfectly. After installing several programs, couple of
reboots, when I open console it's empty, it's kind of hanging up. Can
you give me some advices how to set permissions for installed programs
so standard user can access them and the most important how to access
console when I'm standard user.

Normally, if you're installing packages from rpm's (as you ought to be
doing), permissions shouldn't be a problem.  Applications that need to
be run as root (such as applications that need direct access to
hardware, like CD burning software) should either be setuid root
(which, if they're installed from RPM, they probably already are) or
wrapped (again, they probably are if you're installing from RPM).

Ok, RPM's are not a problem. What about such applications like Thunderbird or Firefox? They're precompiled and ready to run... Anyway it's not a problem - I think I'll be able to set it up correctly.

What's causing your shell session to hang is a mystery, but you have
you tried breaking out of it with a Ctrl-C?  Or checking your process
stack to see what's running? (use ps -awux | grep {your user name} to
see processes running as you).

Yes, it's totally hanged up. When I switch to FC2 again I'll check stack changes and see if it's working or not. The most probable is that it just doesn't work (at least look like - no processor use, no disk use).

I have FC2 with Gnome, kernel 2.2.40.

OK -- that's a problem.  How exactly are you running such an old
kernel?  The 2.2 tree is way, way out of date, and FC2 comes with a
2.6 kernel by default.  It's non-trivial to get a 2.4 kernel running
in FC2, let alone a 2.2 kernel.  Are you sure that's what you're
running?  Try 'uname -a' to find out.

Of course 2.4.20 ... sory about that. I have to use this kernel - it's the only one I found drivers for my D-Link DWL-610 PCMCIA Wireless Card. I tried to compile NdisWrapper to use my Windows drivers but somehow it didn't compile itself (maybe because I tried it on 2.4.20??). This is my only solution for my WiFi working. Do you have any suggestions? Of course I could live without using graphical console emulator but ... it's not very nice to swich Alt+Ctrl+Fx all the time to do sth. on console. Thanks for any hints :)

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Greetings - TroLoo