Description of problem:

  When I get a dialog box asking for root password, I put it in and
then dialog box comes back (as if I had put in the wrong password).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

  Latest FC2 yum update \*   (excluding gimp and subversion..)

How reproducible:

  I has just shown up as a problem. Something must have changed..

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Gnome at user level
2. Use Gnome menu to go to hwbrowser (for example)
3. System needs root permission to view info
4. So it opens a dialog box asking for root password
5. I put in root password followed by return
6. Comes back again - asking for password again
  
Actual results:

  Does not accept my password

Expected results:

  I should be able to get in. (I can 'su' in a terminal fine)

Additional info:

  From /var/log/messages  (tried 3 times)

May 29 03:01:07 hoho2 hwbrowser(pam_unix)[3506]: authentication
failure; logname= uid=500 euid=0 tty= ruser=user1 rhost=  user=user1
May 29 03:01:25 hoho2 hwbrowser(pam_unix)[3506]: auth could not
identify password for [user1]
May 29 03:01:27 hoho2 hwbrowser(pam_unix)[3506]: 1 more authentication
failure; logname= uid=500 euid=0 tty= ruser=user1 rhost=  user=user1


[root@hoho2 log]# rpm -q pam
pam-0.77-40
[root@hoho2 log]#