Hello
I am desperate: I just tried to de install kde trinity and now my sudoers file got deleted, a new generated, but I do not any longer belong to this group. That is why I cannot use my PC anymore.
Is re installation the only solution?
thanks
Uwe Brauer
Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 15:38:29 schrieb Uwe Brauer:
Hello
I am desperate: I just tried to de install kde trinity and now my sudoers file got deleted, a new generated, but I do not any longer belong to this group. That is why I cannot use my PC anymore.
Is re installation the only solution?
no :) 1st: can you log in as root or switch to root account using 'su -' ? 2nd: you can always install a new sudoers file from a live CD as long as your file system is not encrypted..
werner
Werner Joss wrote:
Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 15:38:29 schrieb Uwe Brauer:
Hello
I am desperate: I just tried to de install kde trinity and now my sudoers file got deleted, a new generated, but I do not any longer belong to this group. That is why I cannot use my PC anymore.
Is re installation the only solution?
no :)
good
1st: can you log in as root or switch to root account using 'su -' ?
no!
2nd: you can always install a new sudoers file from a live CD as long as your file system is not encrypted..
it is not encrypted, but suppose I use a say Kubuntu 10.04 live CD, how do install the new sudoers file?
werner
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Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 16:10:07 schrieb Uwe Brauer:
1st: can you log in as root or switch to root account using 'su -' ?
no!
that is bad. always set a password for root before messing around :) (sudo passwd root)
2nd: you can always install a new sudoers file from a live CD as long as your file system is not encrypted..
it is not encrypted, but suppose I use a say Kubuntu 10.04 live CD, how do install the new sudoers file?
well, you can download a sample file from the internet or, if you still have a default sudoers file, edit that from the live cd. mount your HD first, of course.
werner
Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012 schrieb Werner Joss:
Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 16:10:07 schrieb Uwe Brauer:
1st: can you log in as root or switch to root account using 'su -' ?
no!
that is bad. always set a password for root before messing around :) (sudo passwd root)
2nd: you can always install a new sudoers file from a live CD as long as your file system is not encrypted..
it is not encrypted, but suppose I use a say Kubuntu 10.04 live CD, how do install the new sudoers file?
well, you can download a sample file from the internet or, if you still have a default sudoers file, edit that from the live cd. mount your HD first, of course.
werner
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you may restart your computer and add "init=/bin/bash" tp the bootparameters.
"Werner" == Werner Joss werner@hoernerfranzracing.de writes:
Werner> Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 16:10:07 schrieb Uwe Brauer:
Werner> well, you can download a sample file from the Werner> internet or, if you still have a default sudoers Werner> file, edit that from the live cd. mount your HD Werner> first, of course.
sorry for this elementary question: but using the live cd, can I simple mount like mkdir tmp mount -t jfs /dev/sda5 /tmp
Then the HD is writable???
Thanks
Uwe
Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 21:52:32 schrieb Uwe Brauer:
"Werner" == Werner Joss werner@hoernerfranzracing.de writes:
Werner> Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 16:10:07 schrieb Uwe Brauer:
Werner> well, you can download a sample file from the Werner> internet or, if you still have a default sudoers Werner> file, edit that from the live cd. mount your HD Werner> first, of course.
sorry for this elementary question: but using the live cd, can I simple mount like mkdir tmp mount -t jfs /dev/sda5 /tmp
Then the HD is writable???
well, not sure if /tmp is a good mount point (could already be in use), but basically, it should work this way.
werner
"Werner" == Werner Joss werner@hoernerfranzracing.de writes:
Werner> well, you can download a sample file from the Werner> internet or, if you still have a default sudoers Werner> file, edit that from the live cd. mount your HD Werner> first, of course.
sorry for this elementary question: but using the live cd, can I simple mount like mkdir tmp mount -t jfs /dev/sda5 /tmp
Then the HD is writable???
well, not sure if /tmp is a good mount point (could already be in use), but basically, it should work this way.
I am very confused but this does not work. I took a different machine running 10.04 trinity. It has only a root partion with jfs on it.
So when I boot with my virtual 10.04 Cd and then try to mount via
mount -t jfs /dev/sda5 /tmp2
Or what ever mount complains:
"wrong fs type or bad superblock":
the usual message of mount when something is wrong.
I have also on /dev/sda1 a windows partion with ntfs. This one I can mount. So I am stuck.
There must be something very elementary which I miss, but what?
Thanks
Uwe Brauer
I'd suggest you interrupt the boot loader (grub? grub2?) and add "init=/bin/bash" to the kernel options, then just boot on. You'll get a bash in root from where the first thing to do is "passwd". then just reboot the box and you can get root via "su" and the password.
nik
Am Samstag, 15. Dezember 2012 schrieb Uwe Brauer:
"Werner" == Werner Joss werner@hoernerfranzracing.de writes:
Werner> well, you can download a sample file from the Werner> internet or, if you still have a default sudoers Werner> file, edit that from the live cd. mount your HD Werner> first, of course.
sorry for this elementary question: but using the live cd, can I simple mount like mkdir tmp mount -t jfs /dev/sda5 /tmp
Then the HD is writable???
well, not sure if /tmp is a good mount point (could already be in use), but basically, it should work this way.
I am very confused but this does not work. I took a different machine running 10.04 trinity. It has only a root partion with jfs on it.
So when I boot with my virtual 10.04 Cd and then try to mount via
mount -t jfs /dev/sda5 /tmp2
Or what ever mount complains:
"wrong fs type or bad superblock":
the usual message of mount when something is wrong.
I have also on /dev/sda1 a windows partion with ntfs. This one I can mount. So I am stuck.
There must be something very elementary which I miss, but what?
Thanks
Uwe Brauer
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Am Sonntag, 16. Dezember 2012, 10:45:31 schrieb Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp:
I'd suggest you interrupt the boot loader (grub? grub2?) and add "init=/bin/bash" to the kernel options, then just boot on. You'll get a bash in root from where the first thing to do is "passwd". then just reboot the box and you can get root via "su" and the password.
ok, this sounds like an easy solution :) I have personally never tried it, though. as an alternative, you could boot from a live CD which has jfs support built in, such as http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-de_Uebersicht Werner
Am Samstag, 15. Dezember 2012 schrieb Uwe Brauer:
I am very confused but this does not work. I took a different machine running 10.04 trinity. It has only a root partion with jfs on it.
So when I boot with my virtual 10.04 Cd and then try to mount via
mount -t jfs /dev/sda5 /tmp2
Or what ever mount complains:
"wrong fs type or bad superblock":
the usual message of mount when something is wrong.
I have also on /dev/sda1 a windows partion with ntfs. This one I can mount. So I am stuck.
There must be something very elementary which I miss, but what?
Thanks
Uwe Brauer
"Werner" == Werner Joss werner@hoernerfranzracing.de writes:
ok, this sounds like an easy solution :) I have personally never tried it, though. as an alternative, you could boot from a live CD which has jfs support built in, such as http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-de_Uebersicht Werner
Well as it turned out the Live CD solution works on my Laptop. I have to run
fsck.jfs on the hard disk then I can mount it!
Uwe
A new Debian Wheezy + TDE 3.5.13.1 live-cd is posted at:
http://exegnulinux.net/downloads/
There will probably be a few bugs so anyone who can help test it is appreciated. At the moment I can't get kaffeine to behave.
Wheezy images will be updated from time to time at the same URL
Posted there also is (squeeze-based) exegnulinux_3.3.iso
Please note, all exegnu TDE builds are unofficial.
BTW congrats and thanks to Alexandre and Francois for your work with TDE live-images
David
Will you be doing any wheezy + nightly builds?
Thanks!
On 17 December 2012 10:03, David Hare davidahare@gmail.com wrote:
A new Debian Wheezy + TDE 3.5.13.1 live-cd is posted at:
http://exegnulinux.net/downloads/
There will probably be a few bugs so anyone who can help test it is appreciated. At the moment I can't get kaffeine to behave.
Wheezy images will be updated from time to time at the same URL
Posted there also is (squeeze-based) exegnulinux_3.3.iso
Please note, all exegnu TDE builds are unofficial.
BTW congrats and thanks to Alexandre and Francois for your work with TDE live-images
David
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On 17/12/12 16:54, Calvin Morrison wrote:
Will you be doing any wheezy + nightly builds?
Thanks!
I would like to but there is very little info on the state of nightly builds and r14 ... are they mostly functional yet?
It should not take long, I already got the base chroot and custom live-config scripts for TDE mostly sorted
On 17/12/12 16:54, Calvin Morrison wrote:
Will you be doing any wheezy + nightly builds?
Thanks!
I would like to but there is very little info on the state of nightly builds and r14 ... are they mostly functional yet?
It should not take long, I already got the base chroot and custom live-config scripts for TDE mostly sorted
Hello,
I'll take some time in the Christmas break to try your LiveCD!
-Alexandre
On 18/12/12 22:37, Alexandre Couture wrote:
Hello,
I'll take some time in the Christmas break to try your LiveCD!
-Alexandre
Thanks Alexandre...
I used pclinuxos some years back, it was a good experience. However I never got to know it so well and since settled on Debian...
I have already a copy of the pclinuxos live-cd. It looks very nice but runs slow here from virtualbox. I would like to know more about the pclinuxos equivalent "live-boot" mechanism and how to boot the ISO from live usb (using syslinux) or HD partition
My approach to a live-image is a little different, I want to keep it =<700MB (not an easy task but now there is XZ compession) The intention is, it will be installable and expandable but also useful as a bootable live-image for system tasks, a "travelling OS" on usb or just demonstration. Requirements are minimal resource usage with a lightweight and user-friendly DE (thanks TDE)
I support also the (Debian-based) Refracta project. It uses xfce, probably the best lightweight "mainstream" DE, however TDE remains my preference for overall GUI functionality. The ExeGNU installer and snapshot/remaster utility is "forked" from Refracta to suit TDE
David
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:14:04 +0000 From: davidahare@gmail.com To: trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net Subject: Re: [trinity-users] New Debian Wheezy + TDE 3.5.13.1 live-cd
On 18/12/12 22:37, Alexandre Couture wrote:
Hello,
I'll take some time in the Christmas break to try your LiveCD!
-Alexandre
Thanks Alexandre...
I used pclinuxos some years back, it was a good experience. However I never got to know it so well and since settled on Debian...
I have already a copy of the pclinuxos live-cd. It looks very nice but runs slow here from virtualbox. I would like to know more about the pclinuxos equivalent "live-boot" mechanism and how to boot the ISO from live usb (using syslinux) or HD partition
My approach to a live-image is a little different, I want to keep it =<700MB (not an easy task but now there is XZ compession) The intention is, it will be installable and expandable but also useful as a bootable live-image for system tasks, a "travelling OS" on usb or just demonstration. Requirements are minimal resource usage with a lightweight and user-friendly DE (thanks TDE)
I support also the (Debian-based) Refracta project. It uses xfce, probably the best lightweight "mainstream" DE, however TDE remains my preference for overall GUI functionality. The ExeGNU installer and snapshot/remaster utility is "forked" from Refracta to suit TDE
David
Hello David,My approach to my liveCD was to include all the apps someone might need right on the liveCD, so that I can install it on an older pc without fast internet access without having to download and install software I need, as LibreOffice and other apps. One of the advantages of PCLOS over Debian is that (correct me if I'm wrong) I can install the livecd to a usb key or sd card with the installer without ny problem. Grub is installed right where it should and the installer does not fail anywhere. The Debian installer, at least in the versions I tried 1-2 years ago, couldn't install properly to a usb disk without doing some steps manually. On PCLOS, I use UNetBootIn (available on Win and Linux) to transfer the ISO image to a USB key. I boot from the USB key and then I can install the system (with the normal installer) on the SD card of my laptop (Asus EEE 2G surf) and when I reboot, I choose to boot from the SD card and it works right as it should.If you want to use UNetBootIn, you should note that you should do NOTHING on your computer while it is tranferring the files because it might cause data corruption. If a linux livecd does not boot, re-try to write it again. I think that the BFS kernel of PCLOS might be what slows down its use on VirtualBox, so it might be good to use it on a real PC. I'll try your livecd soon!-Alexandre
The (unofficial) ExeGNU Wheezy + TDE live-cd image is now updated.
It is this week's current Wheezy with Slavek's TDE 3.5.13.2 pre-release packages.
As yet untested beyond that it boots and runs here.
http://exegnulinux.net/downloads/wheezy/exegnu_wheezy_tde_10012013.iso
David
On Thursday 10 of January 2013 12:15:18 David Hare wrote:
The (unofficial) ExeGNU Wheezy + TDE live-cd image is now updated.
It is this week's current Wheezy with Slavek's TDE 3.5.13.2 pre-release packages.
As yet untested beyond that it boots and runs here.
http://exegnulinux.net/downloads/wheezy/exegnu_wheezy_tde_10012013.iso
David
Based on previous research, I prepared update for all packages using xine - amarok, kaffeine, kdemultimedia, kmplayer. In the distributions containing xine 1.2 are now built against xine 1.2 - Debian Wheezy, Ubuntu Precise and Quantal. Packages are already in my PPA. Who of you can, please test it. :)
Slavek --
On 14/01/13 22:26, Slávek Banko wrote:
Based on previous research, I prepared update for all packages using xine - amarok, kaffeine, kdemultimedia, kmplayer. In the distributions containing xine 1.2 are now built against xine 1.2 - Debian Wheezy, Ubuntu Precise and Quantal. Packages are already in my PPA. Who of you can, please test it. :)
Slavek
Still no spare Wheezy installation to test 3.5.13.2 pre-release but I dist-upgraded the live-build's chroot. No problems at all (but I don't use the kdemultimedia meta,)
The following NEW packages will be installed: libxine2 libxine2-bin libxine2-doc libxine2-ffmpeg libxine2-misc-plugins libxine2-plugins libxine2-x The following packages will be upgraded: amarok-common-trinity amarok-engine-xine-trinity amarok-trinity bash cpio cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-common cups-ppdc exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light grub-common kaffeine-trinity kdemultimedia-kio-plugins-trinity kmix-trinity libcups2 libcupscgi1 libcupsdriver1 libcupsimage2 libcupsmime1 libcupsppdc1 libkcddb1-trinity libnfnetlink0 libqt3-mt libreadline5 libreadline6 libvcdinfo0 python2.7 python2.7-minimal readline-common tar vcdimager
The xine1 stuff was purged manually. I had expected apt-get autoremove or deborphan to show it but maybe libxine1-x, previously installed manually, affected that.
Testing from usb the new live-image, Kaffeine, kmplayer, amarok (and seemingly everything else) are so far working fine. Not tested kaffeine's dvb interface yet.
Thanks Slavek, great work
BTW I do have Wheezy+ R14 (nightly builds) installed, not upgraded yet but I see the kaffeine/xine fix is in there also
David
Dne út 15. ledna 2013 David Hare napsal(a):
On 14/01/13 22:26, Slávek Banko wrote:
Based on previous research, I prepared update for all packages using xine - amarok, kaffeine, kdemultimedia, kmplayer. In the distributions containing xine 1.2 are now built against xine 1.2 - Debian Wheezy, Ubuntu Precise and Quantal. Packages are already in my PPA. Who of you can, please test it. :)
Slavek
Still no spare Wheezy installation to test 3.5.13.2 pre-release but I dist-upgraded the live-build's chroot. No problems at all (but I don't use the kdemultimedia meta,)
In the kdemultimedia package is xine related only package libarts1-xine-trinity.
The following NEW packages will be installed: libxine2 libxine2-bin libxine2-doc libxine2-ffmpeg libxine2-misc-plugins libxine2-plugins libxine2-x The following packages will be upgraded: amarok-common-trinity amarok-engine-xine-trinity amarok-trinity bash cpio cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-common cups-ppdc exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light grub-common kaffeine-trinity kdemultimedia-kio-plugins-trinity kmix-trinity libcups2 libcupscgi1 libcupsdriver1 libcupsimage2 libcupsmime1 libcupsppdc1 libkcddb1-trinity libnfnetlink0 libqt3-mt libreadline5 libreadline6 libvcdinfo0 python2.7 python2.7-minimal readline-common tar vcdimager
The xine1 stuff was purged manually. I had expected apt-get autoremove or deborphan to show it but maybe libxine1-x, previously installed manually, affected that.
Testing from usb the new live-image, Kaffeine, kmplayer, amarok (and seemingly everything else) are so far working fine. Not tested kaffeine's dvb interface yet.
Thanks Slavek, great work
BTW I do have Wheezy+ R14 (nightly builds) installed, not upgraded yet but I see the kaffeine/xine fix is in there also
Yes, Tim has also updated xine related packages in R14 nightly.
David
Slavek --
"Mag" == Mag Dr Nikolaus Klepp office@klepp.biz writes:
I'd suggest you interrupt the boot loader (grub? grub2?) and add "init=/bin/bash" to the kernel options, then just boot on. You'll get a bash in root from where the first thing to do is "passwd". then just reboot the box and you can get root via "su" and the password.
Hm,
Do you mean: when the grub menu with kubuntu kubuntu-recovery WinXp
Pops up I put the cursor on the first hit e for edit get the menu and add a new line with init=/bin/bash
Then with Crt-x I boot?
Well this did not work.
I also tried to use kubuntu-recovery but there seemed to be a problem with my laptop keyboard. I hope when I retry on Monday with the desktop that this keyboard problem does not occur and I could use the kubuntu-recovery option.
Uwe
On 15/12/2012 23:01, Uwe Brauer wrote:
So when I boot with my virtual 10.04 Cd and then try to mount via
mount -t jfs /dev/sda5 /tmp2
Or what ever mount complains:
"wrong fs type or bad superblock":
So the answer is: /dev/sda5 doesn't hosts a jfs filesystem. Maybe you used a wrong minor number (5) or event a wrong major letter (a).
To me it is useless to give -t to mount Linux filesystems, it can handle it automatically (verified for vfat, etx2/3/4, xfs, etc.). This may be required for loop, ntfs, etc. mounts only.
Moreover, any running livecd distro should also have a (custom) sudoers file, so just copy and edit (simplify) it to your host /etc/sudoers.
Nicolas
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