On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 00:28 -0700, Ashley Pritchard wrote:
I have recently installed Fedora 7 on my machine & got it working
for
the most part ie...adding DVD, mp3 support etc...but now when I login
to my user account from GDM into Gnome I am not able to use any
programs that require root access. If the Package updater pops up with
updates I click on view packages & it asks for my root password. I
enter it & nothing happens & it does the same thing for all programs
that need root access.
You're certain that it's being entered correctly (no caps lock, etc.)?
And you haven't used some special characters that mightn't get treated
the same in a GUI environment? Just saying that to cover all the bases.
I've just recently installed FC7, and don't have this issue. I am
logged in as myself, I haven't logged in graphically as root at all, so
far. I boot in run level 5, and the GUI is started automatically, then
I log in as myself. If I pick something from the menus that requires
the root password, I'm prompted and it accepts. If I su - in a terminal
and issue a command that does something graphical, it works (note 1).
I haven't tried booting in run level 3 (text only), starting X manually,
then doing "su -" to switch users.
I started off with the fairly basic defaults it offered me, and added a
few things. Nothing special though, just a few user applications and
control panels for some services. You might want to post a list of what
you have installed, so others can compare. You can grab a list of
everything installed from an RPM from this file: /var/log/rpmpkgs
Note 1.
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Things like this work for me:
[tim@bigblack ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@bigblack ~]# serviceconf
--
[tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr
2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386
Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7.
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