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

[Tomasz Borkowski]

Hi,

Of course, I have tried the calls in the following ways:
a. root as root
b. as other user using gksu
c. as other user using sudo
All trials were unsuccesfull.

No, my root file system (mounted over NFS) is not read-only - I am able to
do the most of admin-stuff (e.g. installing apt-packages, running useradm,
etc.) as well as user-specific configuration of gnome (/home is in the
root file system). Only *-admin applications seem to have the problem.

Best regards,
Tomasz

> 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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