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

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Friday, September 02, 2005 7:16 AM -0400 Jim Cornette 
<fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:

> This error seemed to be a problem with kudzu detecting something and
> fowling things up. Kudzu does not prompt for actions any longer, it goes
> wilde sometimes instead.
> I had this error a long time ago (FC4) and it did the same thing with
> asking for root password but never accepting the input.

This sounds like what I'm seeing.