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

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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)

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Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks! Walt

Does rpm -V coreutils or rpm -V yum return anything?

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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:

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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.

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" 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:

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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

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thank you all for the help. I can access a shell from ctrl alt F2 and can use it to do the admin work I need to with this system. find / -name su gives me a lot of 'permission denied' for many of the directories. which su gives me /usr/bin/which: no su in (/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/lib/alliance/bin:/usr/libexec/sdcc:/home/walt/bin:/usr/lib/alliance/bin:/usr/libexec/sdcc) But the part that bothers me the most is when I want to run yumex or some other GUI app that requires root privileges, I can't. Thanks again!! Walt On 01/06/2011 10:18 AM, Tal Cohen wrote:

Does "which su" find su in your path?

If not, try "find / -name su" to find out where it is on your system.

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 id gives: uid=500(walt) gid=500(walt) groups=500(walt) context=user_u:user_r:user_t:s0 Thanks! Walt On 01/10/2011 08:30 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:

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Thank you all for the help. I can access a shell from ctrl alt F2 and can use it to do the admin work I need to with this system. find / -name su gives me a lot of 'permission denied' for many of the directories. which su gives me /usr/bin/which: no su in (/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/lib/alliance/bin:/usr/libexec/sdcc:/home/walt/bin:/usr/lib/alliance/bin:/usr/libexec/sdcc)

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But the part that bothers me the most is when I want to run yumex or some other GUI app that requires root privileges, I can't. Thanks again!! Walt

These sound like SELinux issues. What does

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 semanage login -l and semanage user -l gives: /usr/sbin/semanage: SELinux policy is not managed or store cannot be accessed. I don't know how this came about either. I think it started after a package update, but I'm not sure. Thanks! Walt On 01/10/2011 09:23 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:

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id gives: uid=500(walt) gid=500(walt) groups=500(walt) context=user_u:user_r:user_t:s0 Thanks! Walt

user_t is a confined user, it is not allowed to do root activity. Not sure how you got this setup, you probably want to run with unconfined_t.

Please attach the output of # semanage login -l # semanage user -l

If logging in as root gets you a user that is running as user_t, then you might have to boot the machine in permissive mode.

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Thank you all for the help. I can access a shell from ctrl alt F2 and can use it to do the admin work I need to with this system. find / -name su gives me a lot of 'permission denied' for many of the directories. which su gives me /usr/bin/which: no su in (/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/lib/alliance/bin:/usr/libexec/sdcc:/home/walt/bin:/usr/lib/alliance/bin:/usr/libexec/sdcc)

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But the part that bothers me the most is when I want to run yumex or some other GUI app that requires root privileges, I can't. Thanks again!! Walt

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semanage login -l and semanage user -l gives: /usr/sbin/semanage: SELinux policy is not managed or store cannot be accessed. I don't know how this came about either. I think it started after a package update, but I'm not sure. Thanks! Walt

Did you do these commands as root?

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id gives: uid=500(walt) gid=500(walt) groups=500(walt) context=user_u:user_r:user_t:s0 Thanks! Walt

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Thank you all for the help. I can access a shell from ctrl alt F2 and can use it to do the admin work I need to with this system. find / -name su gives me a lot of 'permission denied' for many of the directories. which su gives me /usr/bin/which: no su in (/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/lib/alliance/bin:/usr/libexec/sdcc:/home/walt/bin:/usr/lib/alliance/bin:/usr/libexec/sdcc)

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