Sirs,
First of all, thankyou very much for your effort. You are helping many people, 
like me, to discover all the possibilities of the Linux operating system.

Nevertheless I have found a serious issue.

I'm installing your operating system on a virtual machine running on Windows 
10. The virtualisation software that I use is Oracle's VM Virtualbox. I've 
dowloaded the .iso files (both the full installation, 3 DVDs, and the netinst 
versions) with identical results, using two different computers.

In all cases I have installed the virtual machine using the ISO, using standard 
options, one drive (plus swap), root password, and user password.

It install flawlessly the operating system, until I open the Konsole terminal 
and try to use the root privilegies.

First I get mad trying to make it works, unsuccessfully. Then I supposed that 
I've typed my password wrong, or an issue with my keyboard layout... to 
summarize it was my fault.

In order to avoid the same problem, I made another virtual machine, with 
identical results. I couldn't reach root (I had taken a photograph of my 
password and it was correct). The user could log in without any trouble.

I've tried to reset root password through GRUB, without success.

Finally I make it work by NOT assigning ANY password to root. Then my user is 
added to suddoers group (I suppose), and then I  assing root a  password with 
the order PASSWD.

I have been searching through the Internet, and it looks this issue started 
with Debian 9 distribution.

Hope this may help you to find and repair this annoying bug. For someone like 
me, who doesn't have any idea about linux this is a major problem.

Again thank you, and good luck looking for the gap.

Best regards,


José Ramón Sánchez Gómez

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