Just installed a F19 guest, with minimal installation. I was testing screen performance during instalation, and then I set up the root password twice during the installation. And I didn't set up any other user, I wasn't going to use anyway. But when VM installed, I couldn't login on guest tty console using root. Had to boot with init=/bin/bash.. then I tried re-setting the password, in case the 2nd attempt during install had borked it, but I still couldn't login. /var/log/secure contains: Jun 6 20:58:55 localhost sshd[852]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22. Jun 6 20:58:55 localhost sshd[852]: Server listening on :: port 22. Jun 6 20:58:59 localhost unix_chkpwd[911]: check pass; user unknown Jun 6 20:59:00 localhost unix_chkpwd[912]: check pass; user unknown Jun 6 20:59:00 localhost unix_chkpwd[912]: password check failed for user (root) Jun 6 20:59:00 localhost login: pam_unix(login:auth): authentication failure; logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=tty1 ruser= rhost= user=root Jun 6 20:59:02 localhost login: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM tty1 FOR root, Authentication failure Jun 6 20:59:03 localhost unix_chkpwd[913]: check pass; user unknown Jun 6 20:59:04 localhost unix_chkpwd[914]: check pass; user unknown Jun 6 20:59:04 localhost unix_chkpwd[914]: password check failed for user (root) Jun 6 20:59:07 localhost login: FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM tty1 FOR root, Authentication failure Not sure what else I can provide. Please let me know. I'm keeping this guest around a while for your debugging.. Thanks, Marcelo.
Marcelo, can you attach any log files you have in /var/log/anaconda? Also, does the root user appear in both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow? The "check pass; user unknown" lines seem to indicate that the pam module wasn't able to find the root user data.