Unable to view user/group console?
 

hello all,
first just wanted to say how informative this site has been for me in the past. anyways with my problem(s), i am running redhat 8.0 with samba as a PDC on just a regular P4 2.1MHz dell box. for some reason when i run RedHat>System Settings>User and Groups (i believe is the path) and the screen flickers and goes back to the desktop. I checked permissions in the etc/group and all looks well. My next move was to remove and reinstall user/groups by going to the folder "Start Here" > "System Setting" > "Packages" > "System - Admin Tools" > "Details" > "redhat-config-users" and unchecked it in hopes to reinstall it. I Rebooted and went back into the path and re-checked the "redhat-config-users" and clicked update, then it asked for the "Pscyhe 8.0 disk 1". Since i didn't have the psyche 8.0 disc with me anymore i downloaded another disc 1 from a mirror labeled "psyche-i386-disc1.iso". Once i downloaded the file (5 hours later" i burned the file to a disk and reran the setup again and when it asked for the psyche 8.0 disk 1 i put the "psyche8.0-i386-disc1.iso" into the drive and it still didn't work. do i need to do some sort of decompression on the .iso file?

any help is GREATLY appreciated.


popotech

Ok, if you run into a problem like that with a GUI tool again, run the command from a command line/console/terminal. If the software is encountering any problems, it will likely display a message telling you as much, giving you a little more information to help find the root cause.

When you burned the CD, did you burn it using the iso file as a "cd image" or did you burn it as a plain data file? Actually, you don't need to burn the CD if all you want is the redhat utility. Provided the iso file is still on your disk, you can mount the iso file directly. Use this command:

mount your_file.iso −r −t iso9660 −o loop /some/mount/point

Obviously, replace your_file.iso with the name of the iso file. Similarly, replace /some/mount/point with the path to an empty directory to mount to. It may be easiest just to create a temporary mount point like /mnt/isofile, and use that. You may need to be root to do the mount.

If successful, then you should be able to access the contents of the iso file at your mount point. Hopefully you will be able to either:
1. Find the redhat-config-users file directly (and copy it over)
2. Find the rpm file containing the redhat-config-users file, and install it