Re: will not accept super user password

[Bob Kashani <bobk ocf berkeley edu>]

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 11:35 +0000, Jim Maas wrote:
> I can't get past the request for the su password. I suppose this is 
> something weird to do with this Debian sudo su system?  I've even gone 
> into the directory gnome-system-monitor-2.9.91 and compiled and 
> installed it as su but garnome will still not go past this step.  Any 
> suggestions?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> [===== NOW BUILDING:    gnome-system-monitor-2.9.91     =====]
>         [fetch] complete for gnome-system-monitor.
>         [checksum] complete for gnome-system-monitor.
>         [extract] complete for gnome-system-monitor.
>         [patch] complete for gnome-system-monitor.
>  ==> Gnome-system-monitor requires libgnomesu
>  ==> You need to be root to install libgnomesu
>  ==> Please provide the root password
> Password:
> su: Authentication failure
> Sorry.
>  *** If you do not have root access then you need to
>  *** rm -rf gnome-system-monitor libgnomesu
> make[1]: *** [pre-configure] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/jamaas/downloads/garnome-2.9.91.1/desktop/gnome-system-monitor'
> make: *** [paranoid-install] Error 2

Just comment the pre-configure section in desktop/gnome-system-
monitor/Makefile.

What version of Debian are you running (stable/testing/unstable)?

What happens is you run su from the command line? Does it work?

Bob

-- 
Bob Kashani
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/garnome