system-config-display won't accept root password at boot

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 23:29 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> FC4-i386, latest updates.
> 
> When I upgrade my kernel and reboot, the system attempts to run 
> system-config-display during startup, and this prompts for the root 
> password. I type that in but it's apparently not recognized, as I just get 
> another prompt. After 3 failures, the system boots normally. I think this 
> happening during the udev initialization.
> 
> I'm using the latest nVidia driver for my 6800GT.
> 
Did you recompile the nvidia driver after the kernel update and before
trying to boot back to graphics mode?

With the last kernel update mine wanted to run system-config-display and
that reminded me to do the driver update as well. (I forced it to fail
out to text mode and did the driver update before I went back to
graphics mode.)