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mikshaw

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Posted: Mar. 11 2005,02:14

I have only one thing to...umm...complain about, so far.

Can the mc menu item please be fixed so that running it initially as root doesn't screw up dsl's settings? 80% of the time the first thing I do in DSL is start a root mc, and when using a stock DSL setup this means I have to first start mc as dsl, close it, and then start root mc. I know I've mentioned this with every release, but it's rather annoying, particularly when it's such a simple fix.

fix: change "sudo /usr/bin/mc" to "sudo su -c /usr/bin/mc"

Thanks for reading.

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http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

ke4nt1

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Posted: Mar. 11 2005,05:40

Hmm.. we added your suggestion/fix to a pre-release version,
and had similar issues with what you describe seeing without your fix..

I thought we made the ~/.mc dir sticky as owned by dsl.staff,
to avoid the error you saw , when you first open mc as root user,
then try to open the usual mc, and see permission denied..

Now both can access the .mc , and both work.

Perhaps your seeing an issue here that we are not recognizing?

[From my freshly booted 1.0RC1 ...]

When I hit the desktop, and select from menu
Apps>Tools>Midnight Commander>MC as super user
I get a red window, full of MC goodness.

If I close it, then go open the usual Midnight Commander,
I get a blue window full of MC goodness..

Again, am I missing something here?
Is your issue something within the running of these windows?
Your earlier post suggested that the mc as user dsl wouldn't even respond.
I'm not seeing that now on my end...

Truly, this has been a topic of discussion in several pre-releases, so
don't think or feel like your being ignored here..
We thought we had this fixed..

Let me know, happy to help where I can.

73
ke4nt

joer

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Posted: Mar. 11 2005,07:17

Works great here:
Lets see:
Start by testing shells.
Open root shell
# mc
exit with f10

Open normal dsl user shell
mc
exit with f10

So, far life is good.
Start over with
rm -rf .mc

Now test sudo
sudo mc
exit f10

mc
exit f10

works from menu, works from shell, works from sudo

What man, are you doing? Maybe you restored something old from your backup?

Delboy

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Posted: Mar. 11 2005,10:38

Got a different RC1 problem. Poorman's HD install onto this old laptop using boot.img floppy went fine - boots directly into box:/dsl (not root). As always, base apps and functions all work. When attempting to load .dsl extensions using Emelfm button some do not produce desktop icons such as Abiword and some fail to install into the myDSL menu as well (eg. GTK-see). When loading Abiword extension (number 5 in my usual sequence after gnu-utils, dsl dpkg, iptables and Whitebox) there are error messages about permissions then a line about not being able to copy abiword icon from /var/tmp/icons to /home/dsl/xtdesktop. Abiword opens up ok. via an xterm command line. This icon copying error message also appears for others. Others such as WMmoonclock will not load into myDSL menu.
Something is obviously not quite right with my main install, not the individual extensions. I have not experienced this erratic or unreliable extension installation problem since version 0.5 or 0.6.
I will try another iso burn and install tonight.

ke4nt1

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Posted: Mar. 11 2005,12:48

Before you do...
..read this post..

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=4942

You will need to repair or redownload your icon/menu based extensions
for the new desktop icon/menu management to work properly..

73
ke4nt

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