On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 14:55 -0800, M A L Wraight wrote: > Sorry to bother you all, but I can't read anymore. > > I am a complete newbie to Linux and trying to learn it on my own. Bought > "A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux: Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise > Linux", 2nd ed. Came with installation for 2.6 Kernel. I followed steps > except I used $linux selinux for install. Now I am having issues. > > 1. Can only sign on with the root account - other account "john" created fails > > 2. Signed in as root, I can't browse /home/john > > 3. Log in fine with KDE but Gnome crashes and freezes > > 4. up2date has lots of potential updates, but I have been unable to download or > install a single one. > > I have reinstalled (since I couldn't get very far) but the same issues appear. > Any help would be appreciated. ---- reinstall - format partitions to ensure that anything flaky is gone selinux was broken on FC-2 and still buggy on FC-3 - don't encourage it by using linux selinux for install. 1. Use simple passwords at first - caps lock OFF 2. Root should be able to browse anywhere - sounds like selinux problem but who knows 3. GUI isn't environment for root. You need to operate as a user and switch to root when necessary. Configuration tools in menu's will ask for root password when necessary. Terminal windows - you can change to root user by typing 'su -' (not the quotes) and entering root password 4 Up2date works well for FC-2 and FC-3 FC-1 is in Fedora Legacy I haven't a clue which version of software you have in your hands but 2.6 kernel sounds like FC-2 If it is a 'testing' version, download FC-3 iso's and burn to disc's Good luck - shouldn't be that hard at all. Methinks where ever you got the idea to invoke linux selinux at install time was tossing you the porcupine. Craig
