Re: Configuration error running su in unstable
Harv Nelson wrote:
Hi Chris,
Just did a Google on "QUOTAS_ENAB" error and ran into your post of
03 October 2005 on the Debian users list.
I just ran into exactly the same problem this morning. Have you found
a solution yet?
My solution is as follows:
Open a root terminal session and
apt-get --purge remove gksu
On my system (Debian "etch"/testing) that also took out "foomatic-gui"
and "gdm". No loss on the "gdm" since I run KDE and use "kdm".
So far, "Synaptic" seems to be relying on "kdesu" to collect the root
password. I've yet to discover how the system will react to the
missing "foomatic-gui". Can't say as I remember ever using it for
anything. The scanner and printer all seem to get along with out it.
Hello Harv.
Thanks for the message. I am puting this back on the list.
The problem persisted even after I purged gksu as you suggested, ie:
$ su
Password:
configuration error - unknown item 'QUOTAS_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'NOLOGIN_STR' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_HZ' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MAX_LEN' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'CLOSE_SESSIONS' (notify administrator)
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I removed gdm first without purging since I use gdm as my graphical
login and I wanted to keep the settings. Purging gksu removed gdm and
gnome-netstatus-applet.
In any case, I don't think that the problem lies in X. Entering a
username at any virtual terminal (eg ctrl-alt-F2) produces the same
error messages. It seems that the login package is the culprit. Howard
emailed me this link earlier:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=1873845#post1873845
so someone else had the problem, but it went away on the next upgrade.
Not so in my case. Obviously, removing the login package is not an
option. I might try forcing a reinstallation with dpkg.
Regards,
Chris.
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