Cannot login as root in terminal

[Alessandro Brezzi]

Is your Kbd layout correct? Try all key in your root password before suing
to root. If not, loadkey xx where xx is your national keyboard layout
HTH

Alessandro


2006/1/5, Jon Jahren <jon.jahren at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm having a problem changing from my user "jon" to "root" using su -,
> it worked before, and it stopped working after my computer mysteriously
> locked up. I can use my root password to log in via gdm and install rpms
> via the gui, but if I try to change to root in a gnome-terminal I get
> "incorrect password", I've tried disabling selinux, and I can't find
> anything in the logs about it. Any help appreciated, thanks.
> Regards
> Jon Jahren
>
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