Description of problem: During installation of Fedora 9, I have been prompted to enter root password. But after installation I cannot change user to root with this password. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 11.4.0.82 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start installing 2. Enter password for root during installation 3. After installation try to "su -" with the same password Actual results: Invalid password Expected results: Valid password and changed user to root Additional info:
Can you please describe the platform, keyboard setup and any specialities about the instalation? Also, is is broken on tty1 login too? This works on all our machines.
No specialities. Keyboard setup kept default - English, U.S. English. It's broken on all terminals.
Ok, I can confirm, that there is some kind of problem. The machine is Mac iBook G4 with ppc processor and 1GB of RAM. The instalation media is DVD F9 for ppc. When the password is set manually from single mode, login works. When the password is set from Firstboot (new non-root user), login works. Root password set by anaconda.. no chance.. The log contains only the unix_chkpwd error with password check failed for user (root). Inspection of /etc/shadow shows that some password with type 6 ($6$ .. that is sha1 iirc) is set, but obviously, I can't check which one..
I'm pretty sure this is identical to another bug, but I'd just like to confirm that... Can you login if you turn capslock on, then enter your password normally? (that is, PASSword -> passWORD)?
No. I've been trying to login with caps lock off, with caps lock on. With num lock off/on. And combinations... and nothing.
Are you still seeing this with F10 alpha?
Anaconda version 11.4.1.24. First time boot -> Shows mouse pointer on black screen and freeze. Second time boot -> Run media test -> Some kernel error messages on screen (Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11...), sending term signals, sending kill signals, disabling swap, unmounting filesystems, you may safely reboot you system. I will try it tomorrow.
No chance to install system. F10-aplha ppc kernel is really unstable. Maybe I will try it with F10-beta...
version 11.4.1.40: not working touchpad not working arrow keys on graphical installation (not testing text installation) ;) root password works. Thanks