On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 09:39 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
I have an F-16 computer that was working normally a couple of
days ago when run this morning has an unusual [to me] problem.
When I su and type in the root password form the XCFE desktop it
spends about 20 seconds before displaying a prompt and then
instead of:
[bobg@box6 ~]$ su
Password:
[root@box6 bobg]# exit
I get a prompt: bash-4.2#
If instead of bringing up the desktop with startx I "su" it
changes to root quickly after entering the password, also with
the prompt "bash-4.2#."
Other than that it apparently works? But obviously something has
changed and I can't guess what?
Bob
I am not sure what you really want to do, but if you want to become root
you need to execute su - not su.
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