Re: root password issue

Mike wrote:

Rainer wrote:

sebas22 wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:02:46 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras
<realnc@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Maybe you have a keyboard layout active that results in different
characters? Try writing the password in the username field to see if
it really is what you expect it to be.

No, that's not the problem, I had the same behaviour myself : I
couldn't start YasT, the pwd was always wrong, but I could su without
pb, so I had t open console, su, then start YasT and it was OK. It was
neither because of the case of the pwd (all chars were lowcase and I
tried with and without shifting), nor because of any special chars
(there were none), just a weird behavior. I've tried of course to do
the same as Mike (log as root and change password) but it didn't
result either.

As it was a few days old install, I solved it using the brutal way :
Reinstall :-(

I wouldn't recommend a brute reinstall. The problem is related to kdesu. I
suppose a konsole login a su and executing yast from the commandline works.
Check if you can run the yast button using gnomesu /sbin/YaST2 as command
parameter.
If it works you can proceed with some checking of your .kde directory is
likely present.
Taco
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