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Old 10-12-2002, 07:59 PM   #1
Drogo
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Angry Have you got this before....

Im using Mandrake 9.0 , everything was fine till today..when i go to Mandrake control center -->system---->user .. iget this error


cannot lock usrlib, file /etc/ptmp
or /etc/gtmp exists


Any ideas?
 
Old 10-12-2002, 08:47 PM   #2
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just delete the file it mentions
 
Old 10-12-2002, 09:13 PM   #3
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thanks david that work
 
  


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