Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 43349
login - keyboard disabled when typing password
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:33 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) Description of problem: I cannot login to Linux, I have only seen the Gnome desktop once since installing RedHat 7.1 a week ago. After my initial installation of the operating system I logged on as root (I hadn't set up any user accounts during installation).This being my very first experience of Linux I had a quick look around the environment assessing its usability and content. I tried but was unable to create a boot disk and set up a user account. When I tried to reboot Linux everything seemed to go OK except when I was prompted to login: I typed "root" <return> then when prompted for the Password: my keyboard seemed not to work, whatever I did no output showed on the screen and eventually I was informed "Incorrect login" and prompted to login again. This is repeated for a number of cycles,each time I am able to type at the "login:" prompt but not at the "Password:" prompt, until eventually the system informs me of the last successful login but still will not allow me to login. In an effort to correct this fault (supposing it may have been something I inadvertantly did on the single occasion I was logged on as root) I reinstalled the operating system over my existing installation on the same partition this time setting up a user account as well as root and creating a boot disk while installing. However the problem still remains I cannot login, so am unable to use the operating system. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot Linux 2.Type at login prompt 3.Unable to type at password prompt Actual Results: Cannot access operating system Expected Results: Gain access to operating system Additional info:
the password prompt intentionally does not show your password as you type it. You simply have to put in the correct password without seeing any output and press enter.