Broken Pipe Error Message

[Gary Waters]

Nope...no matter how I do it I get the same problem. If I type su in text 
mode setup utility, an x-popup opens asking me for the root password. The 
same situation occurs. I get a broken pipe error message as soon as I 
highlight and try to enter the firewall settings section. I logged into 
root and killed the account, folders and all, remade it, and then tried 
afresh. I get the same broken pipe error even with a newly created account.

I'd just like to understand what's going on and if this is a bug in fedora. 
I need to be able to drop the firewall to dcc chat with eggdrop bots on irc...

I know this possibly qualifies as a newbie question, but when I subscribed 
to the list it did not mention that this was a list for advanced users 
only. I tend to post to mailing lists after I've run up against a dead end 
with other resources...


At 11:20 AM 2/26/04 -0600, you wrote:
>Instead of 'su root', try 'su -'