On Sunday 16 November 2008 12:13:41 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? > I'm beginning to wonder if there's a deeper problem here. I have a Mandriva box that upgraded from 2008.1 to 2009, and is running KDE3. The same thing happened to me. I then found that /usr/sbin/userhelper had lost its suid root. I corrected that, and for the rest of that session I could give the root password. I didn't work on that box again for a few days, but on Friday I discovered that once more I can't give the root password. I haven't had time to investigate this further, yet. Maybe tomorrow. It does seem strange, though, that two distros are having the same problem, for no obvious reason. Anne
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