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Apart from the answer given and because of you saying "somehow": how did this happen? Did you change any file or directory ownership or access permissions? Or did you (re-)configure something you (apparently) shouldn't have? What do the logs say?
Apart from the answer given and because of you saying "somehow": how did this happen? Did you change any file or directory ownership or access permissions? Or did you (re-)configure something you (apparently) shouldn't have? What do the logs say?
This is what I did yesterday
1. I installed Oracle 11g Express Edition
2. I installed openbravo-3
3. I am unable to start oracle edition so I run following command
Code:
sudo usermod -a -G dba username
and rest i did not remember but i didn't use console
Also to check the logs and which log i should check??
So what did you do? I agree you have to give more information what you did.
I remember one more thing... I go into setting --> user account to my user I set as auto login enable so I don't need to put login details every details. That is it I did. I also did regular system upgrade.
With all these I found new issue.. Now I am unable to restart/shutdown the system, on click of shutdown it goes to login screen and nothing happens.
Distribution: Debian Testing, Stable, Sid and Manjaro, Mageia 3, LMDE
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Just to give my standard lecture, don't auto log in. There are some options in the "session" box on the login screen that come in mighty handy. Auto login is also not the best way to have a secure OS either.
That said, how did you install those 2 programs? This appears to be the important information.
Did you get them from the Ubuntu repo? Or somewhere else? If somewhere else, where?
What did you do to install them?
If this was done in your terminal there is a history kept of commands given there. I don't know what the default is but I have plenty of room and set the limit for saving all commands. The default is some number of lines limit.
I did install the Oracle using bin executable file.
and about openbravo-3 i install using the ubuntu repo(ppapenbravo-isv/ppa). I have installed both of then in earlier version of ubuntu and didn't face any issue.
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While I am not a big fan of auto log in I can see no way that should effect your privileges.
I can see nothing wrong with your usermod command either. Have only used it once myself so I took a look at the man page to make sure that I remembered right. Could be I don't understand it quite right.
Have you tried using that command to add yourself to the admin group? This would have to be done from the root prompt probably.
While I am not a big fan of auto log in I can see no way that should effect your privileges.
I can see nothing wrong with your usermod command either. Have only used it once myself so I took a look at the man page to make sure that I remembered right. Could be I don't understand it quite right.
Have you tried using that command to add yourself to the admin group? This would have to be done from the root prompt probably.
Yes, I use above command to add me in dba group. And very strange thing with me now is the shutdown or restart button is not working... it only does log off
I am experiencing the EXACT same problem. I didn't do an Oracle install but rather ran the latest updates. I also had my user set to Auto login because the box is my MythBuntu backend and sometimes I need the wife to reboot it while I am away from the house. Earlier I had also tried out the boot with no password but then could not get it disabled. Now I have a box that won't let me change the password, won't automatically boot in, and is experiencing other issues. ARG!!!!
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