Lock screen does not work for root in gnome

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 17:44 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> I had a very good reason to login as root some days ago. In gui.
> 
> The LDAP system collapsed (or, more consicely, it somehow beginned to
> take 5 minutes to get a GNOME login (where 5-10 sec is normal...). So, i
> logged in as root, ran system-config-authentification, turned on user
> info cacheing, logged back out, and things worked.

ctrl-alt-f1
login as root
chkconfig nscd on
service nscd start
logout
alt-f7

-sv