I work at Intel as a technician and I keep having problems when I update certain products of losing my root or su password. Is there a workaround for this? I can sign on under a different user but it says "The directory /tmp/orbit-kevinmac is not owned by the current user kevinmac. Please correct the ownership of this directory." I guess because I always use root to logon. I did just install helixcode and vmware but I dont see anything wrong that I did. Please help, I need info on this system. Last time(1 week ago) this happened I had to rebuild this system. Thank You
Which product updates are causing these problems? Do you have all of the relevant errata updates applied?
I have all the updates. What initially hosed it was the helix code update. I have deciphered that the drive must have bad blocks. I ran linux single at the boot screen to change my root pwd. Thanx
I'm glad that that has resolved the problem, but still somewhat concerned about it even happening. Still, there's not much I can do to resolve such a bug, so I'm going to mark this as WORKSFORME.