Bug#521703: system-tools-backends: System admin tool (*-admin, e.g. time-admin) do not work with nfsroot

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 29 mars 2009 à 15:15 +0200, Tomasz Borkowski a écrit :
> Package: system-tools-backends
> Version: 2.6.0-2lenny1
> Severity: important
> Justification: unknown
> 
> I have installed Debian 5 using netboot/debian-install and I
> boot/startup it over tfttboot/nfsroot, i.e the root file system is a
> nfs one.
> If I try to call the system tools like "time-admin",
> "network-admin", ... *-admin, none of them work, reporting the
> error-message "The 
> configuration could not be loaded - You are not allowed to access the
> system configuration"

First of all, you must be root to launch these. Are you doing this, or
at least using gksu?

Furthermore, if you are booting on NFS, I guess the root filesystem is
readonly and you can actually not change the settings, so I’d say this
is expected as well.

Cheers,
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