No updates or administor or anything using root

[jbuckley2004]

I had 10.1 official running pretty nicely, but wanted to add kdevoper (not provided on the 3 CD version). I thought I had succeeded (and in fact, with that part, I did). But I was surprised to see KDE 3.3 on my desktop. Didn't know I asked for that!

Kdevelop works, but any/every time I ask for something that needs root privledge, like updates or administrator (like for adding users) the process starts and then dies without prompting me for the root password. Easy urpmi fails too.

Also, I'm not getting icons on the desktop for my cd-rom or mini-cruzer (this may be related).

Where can I start to solve this problem?

Thanks

Joe

 

[moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

[arctic]

try running the tools from a terminal. that way you might/should get some error messages which you can post in here afterwards (copy them from the terminal e.g to a .txt file which you can upload here if the messages are too long for normal displaying). with those error messages we would have a valuable starting point for troubleshooting. :)

[jbuckley2004]

try running the tools from a terminal.  :)

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks, Arctic. I was thinking along similar lines this morning.

But I don't (yet) know the command-line names of the functions, like what might be invoked from mandrakes kicker->system->configuration->kde->install, or the paths to them.

 

I'll hunt, but any clue-brick for this newbie is welcome!

Joe