Re: Debian 10.2 LinuxCenter Peterburg
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:36:07PM +1100, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> Hallo Holger,
>
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 03:01, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > I have just tested with an 10.3 netinst amd64 image, and it works as it
> > should.
> > So, you will need to give more information, in order to be able to help you.
> > - which installation image did you use exactly?
> > - please provide the installation logs.
>
> The behaviour described is present in the weekly Debian Testing net
> install image (I used amd64).
>
> After using the graphical installer in a virtual machine, setting the
> root and standard user passwords, and finally restarting, the root
> password is not accepted, so the user cannot login as root or use sudo
> as a normal user.
Can you use 'su -l' as a normal user to become root?
Can you switch to tty1 (left control+left alt+F1) and login as root there?
Not being able to login to the GUI as root is expected.
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Len Sorensen
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