I don't know if this is a previously know bug, so bear with me. First of all, i'm running Redhat 6.0, i have both KDE and Gnome installed although i typically use KDE for my root account, the machine is a Pentium 166 o'c to 200 and a Quantum 4.3 GB HDD. About a week ago, the KDE screen saver came on, but when i enterned my root password, it did not recognize it. So i had to CTRL-ALT-BKSPC and relogin. Yesterday, when i arrive at work, all our computers are frozen in limbo with blank screens - some sort of power fluctuation - so everything is rebooted. The machine comes up and complains that fsck has to be run manually to correct some corruption on the hard drive, and prompts me to enter my root password to drop to a shell so i can run fsck manually. Of course, it did not recognize my root password. So i had to boot from a backup hdd, mount my master hdd and run fsck that way. No problem, but still, this root password thing does not sit very well in my mind. Is this a known bug? Thanks, Matt
assigned to nalin
Not currently. Are there any meaningful messages in /var/log/messages? What are the contents of /etc/pam.d/kde?
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