5 Dec
2010
5 Dec
'10
10:44 a.m.
On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 22:37:33 +0100 Michael Schwendt mschwendt@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:05:44 -0700, stan wrote:
I boot into runlevel 5, login to Gnome as a user. Switch to a console (4, if that matters) (*not* an xterm), login as root.
Well, the original test-case is to use a graphical terminal, not a virtual console.
That explains it. I (almost) always do root operations in a virtual console if they are command line. If I have a time when I don't mind rebooting, I'll try this the original way. But it probably won't work, given your experience.