I've been doing a series of Debian installs over the last
several months.
YES. There are easier ways to do things. *BUT* my purpose is
_educational_ rather than "efficiency" ;)
I have a history of problems with the root password not
being recognized.
If the problem *DOES* occur on a individual install
iteration , it *WILL* occur on *EVERY* cold boot and *EVERY*
time a root password is required.
If the problem *DOESN'T* occur on a individual install
iteration , it *WILL NEVER* occur on *ANY* cold boot and
*ANY* time a root password is required.
Whether or not the problem appears is independent of:
install media - LiveCD or purchased 8 DVD set
target machine - Lenovo ThinkPad or Lenovo desktop
On reinstall the problem may or may not occur independent
of previous condition.
The current problem iteration:
A minimum CLI install on the desktop machine.
A successful boot which accepted my user name and password.
Attempted to use su command, would not accept either password.
Successful "apt-get install gdm3" using user password.
Reboot resulted in expected GUI.
Could not access either "Root Terminal" nor "Synaptic" from
menu - password not accepted.
When rebooting into "Rescue Mode", the last two lines
displayed are:
sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell
root@localhost:~#
At this point I'm allowed to do "apt-get install xyz" - no
password required.
Comments, questions, suggestions?????
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