Bugzilla – Bug 148674
No login as root in KDE 3.5.1
Last modified: 2006-05-23 14:30:29 UTC
In KDE Login Window superuser root cannot login. Login over console and with su is possible. No Error message occors.
works fine here
Fine for you, but here it isn't. If I start Yast2 under a normal user login as root isn´t working too. Any idea?
Ulrich: Maby the root user was disabled somehow. If you can use su, though, this should not be the case. What's the passwd-line for the root user? Why does YaST not work after you started a root shell? Does a normal shell login (text mode) work on this machine?
Created attachment 66749 [details] .xsession-error from /root
I could remember that the last action was changing the login setting from autologin to no autologin. This I've done under the normal user. Yast2 and login as root was working last time. The status with yast2 is at the moment: If I open a shell and enter yast2 /sbin/yast2: line207: 3517 Segmentation fault $ybindir/y2controlcenter $Y2QT_ARGS "$@" occurs. yast is working well.
Comment on attachment 66749 [details] .xsession-error from /root The only logfile I could found with some information about this bug was .xsession-errors (see attachment)
Did you install the updated fontconfig-rpms? Did you try to rm ~/.fonts.cache-2 (as root)?
No I didn't install fontconfig-rpms. After deleting .fonts.cache-2 login as root is now possible. Strange! Please let this bug open. I have to install the system new because of another bug. I want to reproduce this.
If there is another bug, create a seperate report for this problem. I consider this one resolved.
I had this bug too which was fixed by th rm ~/.fonts.cache-2. I think I had a similar problem on my first install attempt but i had gnome instead of kde like this latest install. The ramifications were even worse there - I eventually couldnt login with root or my username into gnome. It seems like it starts off fine but after a few vnc logins i started having problems.
Sorry to bother, but I had the exact same problem with a fresh install of the 10.1 final. Login as root impossible, starting programs with kdesu impossible. no error messages. This happened after I tried copying some fonts from my windows partition to /usr/X11R6/libs/X11/fonts/truetype and Konqueror died during the operation. Not even a restart helped. I then used a backup of my /root directory and everything works fine now.
We maby should open another report for this, as it is not connected to the original fontconfig bug in B3. Mike?
I cannot reproduce this.
Unless somebody can describe a procedure to reproduce this, I cannot do anything → WORKSFORME.