On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 00:28 -0700, Ashley Pritchard wrote:
I have recently installed Fedora 7 on my machine & got it working for the most part ie...adding DVD, mp3 support etc...but now when I login to my user account from GDM into Gnome I am not able to use any programs that require root access. If the Package updater pops up with updates I click on view packages & it asks for my root password. I enter it & nothing happens & it does the same thing for all programs that need root access.
You're certain that it's being entered correctly (no caps lock, etc.)? And you haven't used some special characters that mightn't get treated the same in a GUI environment? Just saying that to cover all the bases.
I've just recently installed FC7, and don't have this issue. I am logged in as myself, I haven't logged in graphically as root at all, so far. I boot in run level 5, and the GUI is started automatically, then I log in as myself. If I pick something from the menus that requires the root password, I'm prompted and it accepts. If I su - in a terminal and issue a command that does something graphical, it works (note 1).
I haven't tried booting in run level 3 (text only), starting X manually, then doing "su -" to switch users.
I started off with the fairly basic defaults it offered me, and added a few things. Nothing special though, just a few user applications and control panels for some services. You might want to post a list of what you have installed, so others can compare. You can grab a list of everything installed from an RPM from this file: /var/log/rpmpkgs
Note 1. ------- Things like this work for me:
[tim@bigblack ~]$ su - Password: [root@bigblack ~]# serviceconf