Re: gdm and security stuff

Jeffrin Jose said on Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:27:40PM +0530,:

 > hello all,
 > 
 > i have been using gdm as the display manager and was using kernel
 > 2.6.15.1. i have now upgraded it to 2.6.15.3 and now gdm is not
 > getting up. it is also showing some security issues while trying
 > apt-get using root.just see below...[iam running it from root]

Err...  does not parse;  since gdm  is not  running, you  working from
console? 

Did you reboot after th kernel upgrade? 

 > friend:~# apt-get upgrade
 > E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission
 > denied)
 > E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you
 > root?

 
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