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If "su" doesn't work I doubt it's a gdm bug. Must be something in how authentication is being done.
Be sure you're "up2date" on pam and usermode.
I have this same problem (also on an IBM Netfinity 3000). I have tried to run the pam and usermode but of course you need to be root to do so - at least I get errors on dependencies when I try to run the rpm's. Has this bug been resolved? Koke
I think I finally figured out what was happening... During the installation, I de-selected MD5 and shadow password authentication, but then I entered a 9-digit root password. The installer accepted this and pressed on. As I understand MD5 (which is very little), passwords are limited to 8 characters or less. Once I rebooted the box into single user mode and ran authconfig to turn on MD5 and shadow, changed the root password and rebooted, I could login as root. It seems to me that if you will allow users to NOT use MD5 password authentication, you need to perform a check on the number of characters in the root password to prevent this problem from occuring. Hope this helps...
(downgrading from security severity)
*** Bug 63989 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This works fine in Fedora Core 2.