system-config-display problem

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Tue Jul 26 11:17:01 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 00:37 -0700, Frank Chen top-posted:
>  
>
>>After entering root password, it says authentication
>>failure and won't continue.
>>    
>>
>
>Try booting in single-user mode (in the grub menu, press "a" and add "
>1" to the end of the kernel line, then boot up). You should get logged
>in as root. Enter "chkconfig kudzu off" to turn off kudzu. Then reboot
>and see if you get any further. I suspect that you may have bigger
>problems if your root login isn't working though.
>
>P.S. Please don't top-post on this mailing list (see
>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MailingListRules#replying).
>
>Paul.
>  
>
I've seen this error also with development and others have mentioned it 
on the list. I got this prompt when manually running kudzu. It asks for 
root password in a loop but continues after not accepting the password 
through about three loops.
There is probably a bug report filed for this bug. It acts like gdm does 
when it tries to start without a config file for X. I guess it is a gdm 
error of some kind.
root password works correctly for other aspects of the computer. Selinux 
problem maybe?

Jim

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