On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 13:13 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sun, November 16, 2008 7:00 am, M. Fioretti wrote: > > > >>>> I get the login prompt, type root, after a few seconds I get the login > >>>> prompt again, the pc never asks for a password. > > > > > > after studying the dmesg output... I had an inspiration and disabled > SELINUX by > > adding "enforcing 0" at the end of the kernel line in grub.conf. > > that made the password prompt appear and I was able to login as root > several times. > > After that, I installed with yum at the command line X (with nvidia > drivers from rpmfusion) and then did a > > yum groupinstall 'Gnome Desktop Environment' > yum groupinstall XFCE > > without noticing any errors. Then I set inittab to runlevel 5, rebooted > and got the graphical login screen. Logged in as root, found everything OK > in Gnome, created a normal user and rebooted. > > Since then, root password doesn't work anymore. If I login as the other > user it works, but if I login as root or type "su -" I get a "password > incorrect" message. If I boot in single mode and set again the root > password I get "all authentication tokens updated successfully" but the > password doesn't last. > > Next login as root, I get "password incorrect' again > Any idea on what the problem could be now and why is only the root account > having it? Is this F10? If so, be aware that gdm on F10 doesn't allow root to log in directly. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
