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Re: [Wlug] problems with su (WAS: help)

by Tal Cohen

Does "which su" find su in your path? If not, try "find / -name su" to find out where it is on your system. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric J. Martin" <eric.joshua.martin(a)gmail.com> To: "Worcester Linux Users Group" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 9:04 AM Subject: Re: [Wlug] problems with su (WAS: help) > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Jan. 6, 2011

Re: [Wlug] problems with su (WAS: help)

by Eric J. Martin

On 01/05/11 19:52, Jason Couture wrote: > > I'm on my phone at work, would someone mind elaborating on that last > email for me? > Certainly :) > > Can I suggest $PATH may be incorrect in .bashrc? > First off, at the prompt, type echo $PATH # echo $PATH That will give your your path variable that is created by your machine profile (/etc/profile) as well as your local profile (probably .bashrc and .bash_profile). Mine looks like this (the first three entries are the important ones) me@machine ~ $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.4.4:/opt/android-sdk-update-manager/tools:/opt/android-sdk-update-manager/platform-tools:/home/me/bin:/home/me/sandbox/scripts:/home/me/bin:/home/me/sandbox/scripts Without /usr/bin and /bin being in your path, your machine won't execute anything from those folders if you only type the name. Also, have you found the su program yet? -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F

Jan. 6, 2011

Re: [Wlug] help

by Jason Couture

I'm on my phone at work, would someone mind elaborating on that last email for me? Sent from my android wireless device. On Jan 5, 2011 7:51 PM, "Jason Couture" <plaguethenet(a)gmail.com> wrote: Can I suggest $PATH may be incorrect in .bashrc? Sent from my android wireless device. > > On Jan 5, 2011 7:42 PM, "Kieran O'Callaghan" <kieran(a)tiac.net> wrote: > > For su, have you... > > > > > On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 08:15 -0500, Walt wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > ... ... > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://...

Jan. 6, 2011

Re: [Wlug] help

by Jason Couture

Can I suggest $PATH may be incorrect in .bashrc? Sent from my android wireless device. On Jan 5, 2011 7:42 PM, "Kieran O'Callaghan" <kieran(a)tiac.net> wrote: For su, have you tried: sudo su or: sudo su - or possibly (but unlikely if it actually says it's not found): su - Also, try the full path to su, /bin/su. Otherwise, do you have /sbin/sulogin? You might be able to: sudo sulogin or /usr/bin/sudo /sbin/sulogin or whatever path those are on if they're there. For that matter, have you tried: whereis su Also, not sure if it's possible in Fedora, but can you open a virtual terminal, say ctrl-alt-f2 and log in as root? If so, retry all the things listed above. If you can find su check the permissions. You might need to run something like chmod a+x /bin/su On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 08:15 -0500, Walt wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 ... > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://...

Jan. 6, 2011

Re: [Wlug] help

by Kieran O'Callaghan

For su, have you tried: sudo su or: sudo su - or possibly (but unlikely if it actually says it's not found): su - Also, try the full path to su, /bin/su. Otherwise, do you have /sbin/sulogin? You might be able to: sudo sulogin or /usr/bin/sudo /sbin/sulogin or whatever path those are on if they're there. For that matter, have you tried: whereis su Also, not sure if it's possible in Fedora, but can you open a virtual terminal, say ctrl-alt-f2 and log in as root? If so, retry all the things listed above. If you can find su check the permissions. You might need to run something like chmod a+x /bin/su On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 08:15 -0500, Walt wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm having issues with my Fedora 13 laptop; su command not found, yumex > gives 'unknown error' then backend not running as expected (yumex will > close) > > Any ideas on how to fix this? > Thanks! > Walt > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNJG7qAAoJEGxeLalZnYLuZiAH/AysjjmYYjK/u6QhsaP6zoWR > XEsww+D0R88Mbj65SRWscb0ibgA8zvJFDdWFt1NSOItrUQQ3Lr4TDLroKMU9XW35 > hzLrMnPbW0q/qGIopxIpfg4nj+XX2FZ5Ib9vkBTCgsiu792XIuit+SJUaDel2Cqv > XcYC46VxhjhNxziz/t21v3/8mRKMkZ2IOCWBFj96dGGzvkqIzzDLUAA8Ri4ZTIap > +lJ+fQT+s8QMZfH3F1dogqvOFhU8iMSdF84Si01F4JyI/a7tskBbJTtAmQOustWW > nEcbPkdzB3nJ6moEnAdN9hz9t7EteSbUQzHojmv3IOibWU9n8CZKGHyY+olmyO0= > =vZgE > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Jan. 6, 2011

Re: [Wlug] help

by Chuck Anderson

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 03:05:45PM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 08:15:29AM -0500, Walt wrote: > > I'm having issues with my Fedora 13 laptop; su command not found, yumex > > gives 'unknown error' then backend not running as expected (yumex will > > close) > > > > Any ideas on how to fix this? > > You don't give us much to go on. How about booting into single user > mode by appending " single" to the end of the kernel line in grub? > Then from the single user root shell try: > > touch /.autorelabel > > and reboot. Maybe SELinux labeling is messed up somehow. Alternatively, just add " autorelabel" to the end of the grub kernel line.

Jan. 5, 2011

Re: [Wlug] help

by Chuck Anderson

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 08:15:29AM -0500, Walt wrote: > I'm having issues with my Fedora 13 laptop; su command not found, yumex > gives 'unknown error' then backend not running as expected (yumex will > close) > > Any ideas on how to fix this? You don't give us much to go on. How about booting into single user mode by appending " single" to the end of the kernel line in grub? Then from the single user root shell try: touch /.autorelabel and reboot. Maybe SELinux labeling is messed up somehow.

Jan. 5, 2011

Re: [Wlug] help

by Justin St. Marie

> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > >I'm having issues with my Fedora 13 laptop; su command not found, yumex > >gives 'unknown error' then backend not running as expected (yumex will > >close) > > >Any ideas on how to fix this? > >Thanks! > >Walt > Does rpm -V coreutils or rpm -V yum return anything? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNJG7qAAoJEGxeLalZnYLuZiAH/AysjjmYYjK/u6QhsaP6zoWR > XEsww+D0R88Mbj65SRWscb0ibgA8zvJFDdWFt1NSOItrUQQ3Lr4TDLroKMU9XW35 > hzLrMnPbW0q/qGIopxIpfg4nj+XX2FZ5Ib9vkBTCgsiu792XIuit+SJUaDel2Cqv > XcYC46VxhjhNxziz/t21v3/8mRKMkZ2IOCWBFj96dGGzvkqIzzDLUAA8Ri4ZTIap > +lJ+fQT+s8QMZfH3F1dogqvOFhU8iMSdF84Si01F4JyI/a7tskBbJTtAmQOustWW > nEcbPkdzB3nJ6moEnAdN9hz9t7EteSbUQzHojmv3IOibWU9n8CZKGHyY+olmyO0= > =vZgE > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >

Jan. 5, 2011

Re: [Wlug] help

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Walt" == Walt <waltsaw(a)gmail.com> writes: Walt> I'm having issues with my Fedora 13 laptop; su command not Walt> found, yumex gives 'unknown error' then backend not running as Walt> expected (yumex will close) Did the system recently crash and have to be rebooted by any chance? What does 'yup update' show? I'm not familiar with Fedora at all, so my help will be more general in nature. Hmm... take a look in /lost+found maybe? Do you have files in there? I'm assuming that / holds everything on your system, beyond maybe /boot in it's own seperate little partition. Have you looked in /var/log/messages as well? John

Jan. 5, 2011

Re: [Wlug] help

by Eric Martin

On 01/05/11 08:15, Walt wrote: > I'm having issues with my Fedora 13 laptop; su command not found, yumex > gives 'unknown error' then backend not running as expected (yumex will > close) I'm not familiar with Fedora, but do you need to supply the full path? On my Gentoo box it's /bin/su but it might be elsewhere for you. Also, does /bin/su exist? -- eric GnuPG Fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F

Jan. 5, 2011